While we all want City to win, I think most of us on here love the concepts of the game itself and fair play. If we take a step back from our loyalties to club and concepts, the reality is that football - certainly at the elite level(s) - is a business selling a product that just happens to be matches.
The Premier League and the EFL, etc, are private entities that can set their own rules. So I think that even if these proposals aren't passed "as is" in the short-term, we're on an inexorable slope towards the model that the very biggest clubs (including us) want. And that model is probably, as most have suggested, a US-style format that protects status and revenue for the incumbents.
Parry, while undoubtedly being what many people have already labelled him, is certainly shrewd. This whole PR game will have been planned meticulously. A possible strategy will be that they can walk back from having 30-odd full-on changes to 15 (or whatever) and many people will celebrate a Pyrrhic victory.
Personally, and it make me really sad, I think the genie's out and counting its money. I think the only way to halt (delay?) the inevitable move towards US-style "competition" would be some form of mass protest - an organised cancellation of TV subscriptions and a boycott of games when fans are allowed to return.
But I don't think either of those things will happen because the only people who might be moved to do that are loyal fans (tourists won't be arsed). And that very loyalty will prevent us from doing so: how many of us would pass up the chance to watch (in person or on TV) us win at Anfield for the first time in a generation or bag the FA Cup again?
I feel gloomy. Here's a "fruity" song to suit my mood.
