Accusations of deceit and avarice have always been thrown at bigger clubs who want to improve and capitalise on their status
In mid-April 12 clubs who fancied themselves to be the biggest, the most important and frankly the most potentially lucrative around made a controversial announcement. They had decided to set up a league together, and there was nothing anybody could do to stop them.
Cue outrage. “A dozen clubs, who style themselves the pick of the talent, have joined hands for their own mutual benefit, apparently without a care for those unhappily shut out in the cold,” raged one newspaper. “Is it fair to the clubs thus coolly left to shift for themselves? On what principle has the selection been made? Are the clubs chosen absolutely the strongest, or is it a case of starving out thriving and dangerous rivals?”
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