La Liga’s Javier Tebas and Crystal Palace’s Steve Parish claim to be champions of ‘small clubs’ that are not small at all
There are some debates in football which just never go away: Pelé or Maradona? What should the handball rule be, exactly? And, perhaps most infuriatingly, what makes a “big” club?
This last question has popped up again over the past couple of weeks, but with a strange twist. Rather than bigging themselves up, some people are suddenly keen to claim that they are in fact “small” and being treated terribly by the so-called “elite”. In particular, these “small” clubs are apparently suffering from not playing in Europe and need Uefa to give them more money to make up for it. In fact, at a recent conference, La Liga’s president Javier Tebas and Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish cast themselves as the champions of these “small” clubs.
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