Fitzcarraldo
Ian Storey-Moore
The aspirational middle want exactly the same protections as the 'big 6'. The first wish of any owner of a newly promoted club is that the gap widens and, thus, their risk is reduced.Problem is, the „bottom ten clubs of the Premier League“ are almost an irrelevance, as they are entirely replaceable, and they know it, and so does the Premier League, because there are 20-odd teams in the Championship and probably another half dozen in League One who would bend over and do exactly what the Premier League wants, just for the chance of a season or two of Premier League money.
This is why when most PL decisions require a 14-club majority, the „rump“ clubs almost never act together in their own interests, to reign-in the „big six“.
What sells the Premier League is the (artificial) appeal of this supposed „big six“ and whoever they are playing this week, not the „small clubs“ as Richard Masters would have it.
This is why talk of a 'super league' solving the inherent problem of greed and creating a utopia of equals in the new order, is folly. Six clubs on the next rung would quickly aim to replace them, and while scrapping over a fraction of the available resources - I'd guess without the 'big 6' the new EPL would be worth less than a quarter of it's current value. I suppose, the difference being we'd hope to be one of the 'next' six.