FA would block breakaway ‘Big Six’ Champions League slots; EFL clubs eye the cash
By Paul Nicholson
October 14 – With battle lines being drawn around the ‘Project Big Picture’ proposal that would restructure professional football in England, the FA has said that it would use its veto to kill off any English breakaway league and take away Champions League qualification from those clubs.
The threat of a breakaway league for the ‘big six’ English clubs of Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Man City, Man Utd and Liverpool was apparently used in the negotiations to push the proposal forward. Читать дальше...