🚨One aspect that really highlights the level of Man City's dishonesty in relation to its law suit against the PL -- that is 'swept under the carpet', because it is unpleasant -- is that if there is anyone that could argue that the PL have been "unfair" and distorts competition -- it is Manchester United, followed by Arsenal and Liverpool.
Because, without any doubt, if there is anyone that have suffered from the "tyranny of the majority", it is these three clubs, and the damages has been several billion pounds without any doubt.
🔺Why? The Premier League is a club of 20 that generates income from fans of clubs paying money to watch their favorite clubs pay football.
Just like a club sell tickets to seats in their own stadium and keep the proceeds, just like a clubs sell sponsor rights to their own jersey and keep the proceeds -- without 'outside influence' (i.e. the tyranny of the majority as City call it) a club would be allowed to sell the TV rights to their own home games. This is for obvious reasons the case in for example many US pro leagues.
I think that very few fans want to see such a model in the PL, because most fans regardless if they are fans of the "big 6", want a PL with a competitive balance -- but legally, objections can certainly be made against the current model, and the current model can certainly from a liberal point of view be deemed to be "unfair".
🔺If each club had been allowed to sell their own TV rights like in many US pro leagues -- i.e. if it wasn't for the "tyranny of the majority" -- it would have been like the Scottish PL, but with Arsenal, Liverpool and United at the top and a huge margin to the rest.
In La Liga for example, Barca and Real would earn 700% more each in TV money than the winner of La Liga, Athletico Madrid, in 2014 -- before "the tyranny of the majority" forced through centralized selling of TV rights.
🔺Facts are that an enormous amount of money -- unfairly it could be argued, but in the name of competitive balance -- has been taken from Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United and put in the pockets of among others City's owners. We are talking about many 100s of millions of pounds.
🤜If clubs with state owners can fully utilize the unlimited pockets of their owners, will the model of centralized sales of TV rights survive? This model means that MUFC for example literally each season gives several 100 million pounds to it's rivals (400-500m?).
I doubt it.
🔺EXCLUSIVE
Manchester City have launched an unprecedented legal action against the Premier League in a move that has sparked civil war in English football’s top flight.
The outcome could dramatically alter the landscape of the professional game,
@Lawton_Times reports