The other 14 clubs who make up the competition are irrelevant to the executive, merely the means to a lucrative end for the other six.
No-one begrudges wealth creation, but to claim that a regulator would damage the success of the Premier League is a sham, because it is more likely to ensure that the arrogance of Richard Masters is countered with regulation.
His lobbying against an independent regulator, something he told a parliamentary committee he would not do, is shameful in its arrogance and sheer hypocrisy.
Not one of the “Big 6” has made any statements about PSR and the Everton situation or the impact on the game in general because, quite simply, it doesn’t affect them, and if threatened, the rules are changed or skewed to prevent competition.
The league is anti-competitive in its structure, it’s rules and operation. Advantage for years in on-field decision-making has always been a thorn in every supporter’s side; now, unashamedly even the sham of any financial fair play has dropped its own deceit in abandoning the joke that its title alludes to: fairness.
Division abounds with some clubs trying and failing to dent the steel ceiling (glass gave the illusion it could be broken), wealthy owners handcuffed – Everton, Newcastle, Villa, Leicester… money is of little use if you are not allowed to spend as freely as the ring-fenced six.
There is no future in the present format of the Premier League, no matter how successful those 6 teams are in Europe, no matter how many trophies they win. The deliberate exclusion of 14 clubs means the opportunity for them to compete at the same level has gone. Shamelessly, it has been stolen from them on the drip.
The pie has been divided up with preference to a guaranteed greedy few and any resemblance to fairness has been replaced with accusations of competitive advantage.
Having already given the greatest known in-built competitive advantage to six clubs, this Executive doubles down on the miniscule discrepancies of alleged advantage whilst enshrining it for the few.
Corruption is not merely an accusation, the game is rigged, flawed, beautiful but ugly. Its demise is overdue but the 6 will fight it tooth and nail.