I don't think anyone will be surprised when I say that I don't agree with him. What is an elite Club, a club with loads of available money from a very rich owner or a Club that has a rich history of success over the long history of Association Football in this Country?

For me, Owners like those who have taken over clubs during the last 20 years are taking football in the wrong direction. Those owners that want their "Elite Clubs" protected at all costs, want "their own" interests protected at all costs.

Football is going in the wrong direction & I do hope that there will be more football regulation out in place to curb the power of the self appointed "Elite Clubs" & bring back real fairness to the whole football pyramid again.

Who is he to decide which club has significant importance, or is to be attributed with the word Elite?

I highly doubt that many would consider teams based in Birmingham, especially City, to be among the elite. Elite is the highest of the high, and when he talks about the pyramid without the underdogs and the overachievers' football tends to be less exciting. It has to be a level playing field, where relegation and promotion are enjoyed across all the tiers of English football.

The people running that club are odious. I hope they fall flat on their faces.

I remember Albert Scardino praising the pyramid, saying how it made our leagues so much more exciting than American sports. The new breed of American owners don't seem to agree - they see their system with franchises and no relegation as the default and want that in England too. Our game is a cash cow for them. 11 Premier League clubs are already under American ownership - just three more and they can implement rule changes.

Our sporting culture could scarcely be more different to the American one. Are we just going to allow it to be sold off for the benefit of international TV viewers?