Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
During all the furore around the ESL, I can't help thinking the media has helped create this six headed monster by the incessant focus on just six clubs at the expense of the Premier League as a whole. Back in the studio for televised matches, only a pundit from the Big Six club. Only an analysis of why the Big Six team lost and frequently no mention of the Other Fourteen team at all post match. Sky Sports ruminating over who the Big Six will sign during the transfer window for literally weeks on end only for it not to happen. Messi, Haaland and Sancho only the most recent examples of hours of Big Six related uninformed guff. Completely acceptable now to have a colour commentator who played for the Big Six team with no balance for the other side, Neville being the most obvious example.. All this and more obviously feeds the message to owners seeking to further monetise their asset, that the Big Six are the be all and end all of English football. I may be the exception, but Super Saturday/Sunday are the most boring games in the fixture list. I would rather watch Villa v Man Utd and hope Villa win, or Leicester v Spurs and hope Leicester win. If the coverage were more balanced, the Big Six owners might not be so arrogant. It would be wonderful if the ESL debacle could provoke a reset of media coverage to the whole division rather than a Big Six and Other Fourteen to make up the numbers particularly at a time when there might only be two of the Big Six even qualify for the Champions League. The media can change. We have more black and women pundits than ever before to redress that balance. How about covering the Other Fourteen teams in more depth and more positively to reflect their contribution.