And I'm sure there's some older folk now that are paying less interest in football now but were footy mad fans and made football their life back in the 80s, we replaced them and someone will replace us.
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And I'm sure there's some older folk now that are paying less interest in football now but were footy mad fans and made football their life back in the 80s, we replaced them and someone will replace us.
Well... If Australia can be part of Eurovision!
The importance of checking your post before you hit send...
At least I think it was a spelling error...
Exactly. Look at the tenor of this thread, for example. "PL is already a Super League" and "PL clubs won't participate"
30 years ago the PL was "the death of football". And, objectively, it was a hell of a nail in the coffin.
Football is a capitalist product, and has been since the first advertising hoarding was sold. And capitalism tends to ever increasing monopoly controlled by an ever decreasing number of parties.
Great summary of the situation. I think it's just a question of how it gets started.
Objectively, there isn't really anything outrageous in that. You're talking about a largely reconfigured CL/EL, though less meritorious - or at less tied to results in national leagues.
It's impact to national leagues, and the real reason such an arrangement will give them the hump, is it destroys the value the national league product receives from the annual difference between certain positions (i.e. 4th/5th, 7th/8th). Annual qualification based upon national league performance drives interest in otherwise relatively meaningless national league matches.
Of course, on the economic side of this it's reasonable to argue that it's unjust that national leagues get to cash in on value that they're not actually creating but is rather being created for them.
In reality, the biggest objection to this is its obviously just a first step on the road to a breakaway European pyramid which would at best reduce the national leagues to a feeder system.
That last line is fucking rich coming from UEFA.
I’m no expert on UK politics but it seems like there ’s probably something better they can spend their time on. Especially if it locks in clubs into a monopolistic cartel.
A bit like Baseball no? Big leagues with little league feeder clubs.
Gotta larf at the moral indignation about the creation of breakaway leagues coming from the likes of the EPL & UEFA ffs, you couldn't make it up.
Was thinking the very same thing
I can’t lie, there is an element of me that almost wants the Super League to take off, just to spite the rancid scumbags that feign footballing virtue whilst hoovering up any bribe they can.
The game is dripping in such moral hypocrisy, I almost think ‘just be done with it’.
I don’t *really* want to see it happen, but the enemy of my enemy and all that….
No Bin dippers?
They were quick enough with their statements after a single wrong call...