Is there a red shirt cartel or are we just deluded?

A lot of people forget that Everton were part of the original cartel clubs when the PL was first set up.
The two cheeks, the North London pair of scumbags and the Toffees, along with dear Mr Murdoch and his cronies, were the five main driving forces behind the formation of the Premier League.
 
Been having an "interesting" discussion with some scouser who says that there is no such thing as a red cartel and we are just using that as an excuse for the 115 charges and acting as a deluded fan base.

Now who on here believes there is a red shirt cartel and who doesn't?

Been a red shirt cartel for years, but none will admit it .... you'll find some of the biggest liars in the country at Old Trafford, The Emirates and Anfield .... it's a wonder their red noses aren't six foot long .

Tell him it's the Premier League who have levelled all these ridiculous charges at us, and they turn up for work in clown outfits .. not red shirts !

There ya go see, i kid you not, there's one of em' stood in their office right now as we speak!

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Bump. Balanced video exploring the formation of the PL and the consequences . It's a history we older fans all know but has been conveniently forgotten by many

Most telling is the line where he says the business of the top league in England , given the tie in with Sky TV , slid away from football and towards content . The profitability of the PL , getting a bigger and bigger slice of the cake at the expense if the lower leagues is very telling as is the size of the debts held by EFL Championship clubs .


In my experience professional football at club level, has never been better than it is now. Stadiums are better and safer. The football is a higher quality and much more watchable than I've ever seen it. Like the poster who said earlier in the thread that they "wanted their club back", most of this is over the top nostalgia. No idea if their is a red shirt cartel.
 
calling it a cartel saves having to write "a small group of clubs with a common goal, which is to crush any challenge to their once hegemony, ". Putting red shirt in front of cartel is because the three clubs behind the attacks on City all play in red, simple as that. If it acts like a cartel, talks like a cartel.....
 
I do think there's a favouritism from the media especially. .

But then you also have to remember that the rags and dippers have absolutely monstrous worldwide support. Probably a different stratosphere to us when it comes to fans across the world, so it's somewhat understandable that the media cater to the biggest supported teams.
This is complete crap and i for one im tired of hearing it, the media say that they push the dipper, rag, tarquin crap because its what people watch, the thing is its what people watch because its all that you show, its a self sustaining prophecy, show other stuff and people will watch that, its forced media.
 
In my experience professional football at club level, has never been better than it is now. Stadiums are better and safer. The football is a higher quality and much more watchable than I've ever seen it. Like the poster who said earlier in the thread that they "wanted their club back", most of this is over the top nostalgia. No idea if their is a red shirt cartel.

I would say there is a rotten to the core yank cartel, would that include the likes of Wrexham, Birmingham and Bournemouth?
 
There are a couple of things that point to their being s red cartel.
1st - common sense. It's how the world works, always. Follow the money.
2nd - We can see the bias in play. The media are the lense through which we see, and they are part of that very same cosy setup. (Imagine if City had hacked Liverpool accounts. Or that we repeatedly failed FFP as per utd - different headlines completely).
3rd - We all know which clubs (explicitly) have the greater say in how the PL rules and governance works.
4th - A european superleague is a threat and that comes from the Utds and Arsenal's etc leaving the PL. Not Brighton or wolves etc. This gives them some more leverage.

But mainly its just the common sense that there would be a group of clubs that have more power. That's how things work everywhere.
 
Is a Cartel not a group of like minded peoples, or in this case owners?
I think they could be like minded but not operated as a Cartel. They could also be pulling all the strings and making sure they get exactly what they want. By banding together at the expense of others. Which is probably the definition of a Cartel?
 
I think they could be like minded but not operated as a Cartel. They could also be pulling all the strings and making sure they get exactly what they want. By banding together at the expense of others. Which is probably the definition of a Cartel?
We’ve seen the evidence of the working together. The Arsenal-headed letter is more than enough proof of their scheming to restrict our freedom and growth, so it would be naïve to think that they aren’t continuing to further their aims.
 
We’ve seen the evidence of the working together. The Arsenal-headed letter is more than enough proof of their scheming to restrict our freedom and growth, so it would be naïve to think that they aren’t continuing to further their aims.
They're not doing very well then?
 
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To be honest it isn't even hidden it's blatant and even insultingly blase.
 

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