European Super League leaks set to turn up heat in key EPL meeting
I was horrified to read this on the tube home from work yesterday. I never felt too concerned that this had a serious chance of happening in the past, but the way football is now, and the money in it, plus the fact that goons, Yanited and Liverpool all have US owners who aren't from a sporting culture with relegation/promotion involved (as the article says), makes me genuinely fearful.
The only good thing is we are not in the plans. But the fact that, if the article is to be believed, Levy is pissed off about not being part of the plans, reminds me that Levy is first and foremost a businessman, and secondly a Spurs fan. He wants us to succeed, but he's not 'one of our own' (as Stratford proved).
What do you think about it? And what are the chances, do you think, of it happening?
For me it might be the end, if we were to be part of it. Of the many things wrong with the plan, the worst part in my mind, is that it would take away the culture of following your club away from home, and having in the stadium two sets of fans who oppose each other. And that would reduce to a minimum the tribalism of football and turn it into more of a spectacle for consumers, like the opera, which is what the money men want (Levy included, I bet). Because not even the most hardcore could follow Spurs away in Europe every other weekend; it's just not feasible. And it wouldn't be like now, when a European away is regarded as a great opportunity for a trip, a novelty etc, so many fans travel, it would be the same European away games, week after week...I'd guess at most we would have 100 people there, and different people each time, and over time, that number might dwindle away so that the entire culture of away support is eradicated.
An English league in which we are competing with Leicester, Everton and Wolves for the title, would be like the Scottish Premier League, but it would be 1,000,000 x better than being in a European Super League.
I was horrified to read this on the tube home from work yesterday. I never felt too concerned that this had a serious chance of happening in the past, but the way football is now, and the money in it, plus the fact that goons, Yanited and Liverpool all have US owners who aren't from a sporting culture with relegation/promotion involved (as the article says), makes me genuinely fearful.
The only good thing is we are not in the plans. But the fact that, if the article is to be believed, Levy is pissed off about not being part of the plans, reminds me that Levy is first and foremost a businessman, and secondly a Spurs fan. He wants us to succeed, but he's not 'one of our own' (as Stratford proved).
What do you think about it? And what are the chances, do you think, of it happening?
For me it might be the end, if we were to be part of it. Of the many things wrong with the plan, the worst part in my mind, is that it would take away the culture of following your club away from home, and having in the stadium two sets of fans who oppose each other. And that would reduce to a minimum the tribalism of football and turn it into more of a spectacle for consumers, like the opera, which is what the money men want (Levy included, I bet). Because not even the most hardcore could follow Spurs away in Europe every other weekend; it's just not feasible. And it wouldn't be like now, when a European away is regarded as a great opportunity for a trip, a novelty etc, so many fans travel, it would be the same European away games, week after week...I'd guess at most we would have 100 people there, and different people each time, and over time, that number might dwindle away so that the entire culture of away support is eradicated.
An English league in which we are competing with Leicester, Everton and Wolves for the title, would be like the Scottish Premier League, but it would be 1,000,000 x better than being in a European Super League.
