Angus Kinnear has hit out at ‘treacherous’ Project Big Picture and the Government for their nonsensical policy on gatherings.
Writing in his programme notes for Monday night’s Leeds United clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers, the chief executive did not hold back on the plan hashed together by Liverpool and Manchester United.
“This week, followers of football politics will have revelled in the particularly colourful publication of Project Big Picture,” he wrote.
“Fortunately for the domestic game, if the press reports are to be believed, a Faustian Pact that would have made Machiavelli blush was as transparent as it was treacherous.
“Hence, one of the most unedifying episodes in the glorious history of the Premier League was suitably short lived as The FA, Football Supporters Association and (in a rare moment of clarity) the Government joined all 20 clubs in the Premier League in unanimously denouncing the plan.”
As for the Government, Kinnear did not hide his consternation with their approach to mass gatherings indoors compared to those outdoors in football stadiums.
“However, the Government must also play its part and not persist in their discriminating in their treatment of football in favour of other comparable industries,” he wrote.
“The safe and phased return of crowds is key to all levels of our game, but particularly to the lower leagues (many of whom normally operate below capacity naturally facilitating a proportion of the required social distancing).
“The Government needs to quickly rationalise how the indoor London Palladium can be 50 per cent full for an Evening with Arsene Wenger, but the same number of people can’t be outdoors in the stadium he inspired which is 26 times bigger.”
