Rick Parry profile: Breakaway league threat comes with a warning from history
PA Images | Rick Parry, Chairman of the English Football League, in directors box with Stoke City joint Chairman Peter Coates (right) in the stands during the Sky Bet Championship match at the bet365 Stadium, Stoke.
Parry led engineered breakaway in 1991 based on democracy among the Premier League shareholders; now he wants to seeks that with new plan.
Blocked at Wednesday’s EPL shareholders meeting Project Big Picture retains widespread support in EFL.
Political impasse raises possibility of a new breakaway league.
14 October 2020 - 4:10 PM
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