Oh, so Simon Cliff thinks he runs English football(for pointing out some proposed rules were unlawful and being proved correct), is that Oliver Holt's bullshit narrative now? How petulant.
Nothing to say about the owners of American cartel clubs? The ones who actually initiated the PL push for the ESL, which he mentioned. Project Big Picture before that, which he and his cronies treated very softly and it very rarely ever gets brought up by any of them(chances of that, if it was an owner from the middle east?). Nothing said about the influence they seem to have over the PL CEO, who was plucked from a list of candidates vetted by just two clubs, Liverpool and United.
Rick Parry and David Gill's names popping up in all the wrong places but nothing to see, according to our balanced, agenda free sports press.
None of the problems in English football are anything to do with the old big sly 3 of course. They've never created any wealth gaps or bullied the PL into creating rules that protect any monopolies that they never gained in the 90s to early 00s. Rules which have damaged the English game more than they've helped, according to many neutrals now.
There's no way that fraud believes his own narrative there IMO, seems way too calculated in what he's chosen to ignore to push it.