Suggested Read: Set Pieces blog slams JPT plans as “greed”
Alleged plans by the Premier League to introduce up to 16 of their clubs’ U21 teams into the Football League Trophy have been labelled as “greed” by an influential football blog.
Ian Macintosh writing in a blog post for the Set Pieces writes:
“Don’t get upset. Getting upset because we do not care about your Premier League youngsters is like Sainsburys, Tesco and Asda getting upset because the local butcher they’ve driven to the brink of bankruptcy doesn’t want to help them lobby for longer Sunday opening hours.
“And do not, for shame, speak of helping the England team. You have no interest in that and you never have. You bicker with the England team over every match they play, you resent their use of your players. Do not dare tell us that you’ve suddenly come over all patriotic.
“The motivation for this is simple. It is greed. You have proved too feckless and incompetent to manage your resources. You have scooped up so many youngsters that you don’t know what to do with them. You stockpile them and they stagnate and you don’t know what to do. And so once again you seek to squeeze the life out of us for a marginal gain on your balance sheet.”
You can read the full blog post here (warning: contains swearing):
http://thesetpieces.com/features/7692