Ian Holloway has offered a brutal condemnation of Project Big Picture.
With plenty of Newcastle United fans against the plans put forward by Liverpool, Manchester United and EFL chair Rick Parry, they will no doubt love what Holloway has to say.
Speaking to Grimsby Live, the outspoken Grimsby Town boss said that the coronavirus crisis cannot be used as a power grab by bigger clubs, even if they dangle the carrot of more EFL funding.
He said: “What are Liverpool and Manchester United thinking? How selfish are you? Breaks my heart to say it, I don’t get it.
“I listened to the Government’s man who’s in charge of it all, and at last he’s started to threaten them and say we’re going to have to step in.
“I think they need to step in right now and tell them what we want, not what you think is right. Who are you to suggest that?
“I think governance is absolutely vital right now, because money is going out of the game left, right and centre, billions and billions of pounds buying footballers, and it’s going out the game.
“The game needs it, put it back in the game, get the Government to control our game and make sure the people at the bottom still have a club.
“Greed is disgusting, and that’s what I’m seeing everywhere. It’s absolutely vile, and I hate it, so step in. Go and tell the top clubs that you can’t do that, please. Somebody needs to.
“Why do they need two less teams in the top flight? Bit of a threat are they? Not where you want to be in the league at the moment are you?
“You should be under threat, the game doesn’t belong to you. The club might, but for how long? The game belongs to people in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It belongs to us.
“Every community deserves it, and you’re just at the top of it, so who do you think you are? Let’s make football strong and divvy it up fairly from top to bottom.”
Holloway was subsequently interviewed on talkSPORT and added that he felt the big six were putting a gun to EFL clubs' heads in order to force it through.
The 57-year-old also called on culture minister Oliver Dowden to step in and prevent the plans from going ahead.
He said: "This cannot be right, this is not the way forward.
"Basically they've got a gun to all of our heads and they're trying to take over football and make sure they'll get richer.
"That's not what football is about. Who do they actually think they are?
"It's embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing. I've never seen anything quite like it in my life.
"I knew it was coming - it's a time when everyone's struggling the most, they've come up with this.
"How are they the top six if Manchester United are 16th?
"Please make sure the greedy, manipulative, selfish, self-minded people don't win.
"I'm saying Oliver Dowden, stop this right now, step in and tell us what we've got to do.
"Takeover football, make sure the pyramid is secure for the rest of however long this world lasts because this game is too good for it to die."
