PLOT A LOAD OF RUBBISH
Ex-Palace manager Holloway urges government to step in, and tells United and Liverpool: Greed is disgusting and you’re just selfish I’M APPALLED BY ROLE OF LIVERPOOL’S OWNERS IN THIS POWER GRAB
IAN HOLLOWAY has slammed the “selfish, disgusting greed” of the Premier League giants behind Project Big Picture.
Liverpoo l an d Manchester United have sparked civil war by attempting a coup which would give the Big Six greater power, while reducing the Premier League to 18 clubs.
EFL chairman Rick Parry is on board to try to secure a £250mi l lion bailout as part of the Project Big Picture plan, but Holloway insists it is too big a price to pay.
Grimsby manager Holloway, a former Premier League boss, is furious and has urged the Government to step in and save League One and Two clubs. The former Blackpool and Crystal Palace chief said: “What are Liverpool and Manchester United thinking? How selfish are you? Breaks my heart to say it, I don’t get it.
“I listened to the Government’s man who’s in charge of it all, and at last he’s started to threaten them. They need to step in and tell them what we want, not what you think is right. Who are you to suggest that?
“Governance is absolutely vital, because money is going out of the game – billions and billions of pounds buying footballers. The game needs it, put it back in the game, get the Government to control our game and make sure the people at the bottom still have a club.
“Greed is disgusting, and that’s what I’m seeing everywhere. It’s absolutely vile, and I hate it. Why do they need two less teams in the top flight? Bit of a threat, are they?
“You should be under threat, the game doesn’t belong to you. The club might, but for how long? The game belongs to people in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. “Every community deserves it, and you’re just at the top of it, so who do you think you are? Let’s make football strong and divvy it up fairly from top to bottom.”
Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony (right) told talkSPORT: “We don’t have time for this to happen. In the short term, our league is in serious financial trouble.
“It’s just going to become a distraction. It’s now going to be another month or two, and clubs will go under before there’s another discussion. It doesn’t sound like we’re any nearer to getting the help for the clubs that really need it.”
It is another blow for Project Big Picture, Parry and the clubs involved that even the teams it was designed to help are not on board, quite apart from the opposition from other Premier League clubs, the Government and the FA.
More details are emerging of the secret talks which have been going on for weeks about a plan Parry admitted was first dreamed up in 2017.
The Big Six – Liverpool, Manchester Uni ted, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham – are believed to have met last Thursday to discuss the finer details of the plan.
Liverpool hatched it, according to Parry, United were on board and sources insist Chelsea had an input, although they are keeping a distance, while Arsenal and Tottenham had reservations servations and were new to the talks.
They were due e to meet again on Sunday via Zoom, but that meeting did id not haper happen as planned after the story leaked. Parry then addressed the media as the e Project’s ‘ frontman’ after being eing given the green light by the US owners of United ted and Liverpool.
Now there is a question of f whether the other r clubs can be won n round. But those e driving the agenda a are already fighting ng what appears to be ea a losing battle to keep eep the Project alive, ive, while tensions bemier between the Premier League and EFL have never been greater. er.
Greed is disgusting and that’s what I’m seeing everywhere. It’s vile and I hate it