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Fuck, the more I read this the madder I get. What this boils down to, if you strip all the fine-sounding sentiments away, is 'Oh good heavens no! We cannot possibly have the best clubs winning all the time (and especially bearing in mind that most of them seem to be English at the moment!). We must instead introduce a system of handicapping'. For that is what his proposals amount to.
And that, Mr Blatter, is why The Derby is a world event, whilst the 2.45 at Fontwell is for little owners who like to play at being Sheikh Mohammed or Robert Sangster. It's why the big open golf tournaments attract such staggeringly high prizes whilst the local club is where you can have a pleasant round with the members and not automatically get thrashed by a better player. If Blatter wants to downgrade the CL to the status of a minor handicap race at a provincial course, or the social round of golf on a sunday afternoon, let him continue down this road.
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