And Invested in the Salford City project that is currently buying their way towards the Premier League.
Indeed. Football is full of hypocrites.
Go away with your conspiracy bollocks. Neville is and always will be a Manchester United man.
But my problem is with the PL and UEFA talking about fairness in their statements? So how is it fair to have a 'European CL' when some nations are regarded as more deserving of spots than others? How is it fair that City can have oil owners but not Newcastle? My problem is that these entities are crying about 'fairness' when their actions have only shown that they don't give a shit about it. My biggest hope is that this Super League doesn't happen but it spurns UEFA and the rest into real change. I'm really only criticising the 'response' from the various authorities about this and laughing about how they have had chances to affect fairness but have done jack shit and are now crying at those going against them.What you are talking about isn't fairness but equality which isn't how football has ever worked, football has never been fair. Two cities with vastly different populations can't operate with the same budgets unless you artificially create equality which isn't fair for the one that is bigger and wealthier. To be clear I like US sports and their socialist() structure but it's based on varsity teams and the fact that they essentially get the best young players for free while barely spending resources on their developments, professional sports in the US are a business for billionaires and easy way to make hundreds of millions per year. So it's important for them to have an equalitarian system in a closed league because that's where the excitement come from the fact that the worst team can climb the ranks by adding the best rookies to their teams.
The point is that we have been here before with people up in arms about change in football. Senior English footballing stakeholders have a terrible track record in supporting the development of the elite game. If it was up to England, there would have been no World Cup, have been no Euros, have been no European club competitions.
Don't give a shit mate. He'd say the same if Salford City didn't exist.
Don’t blame anyone who does tbf. The sport is just full of corruption and greed.
Because one would assume that they’re money driven and don’t really give a feck about traditions. I don’t see Joel Glazer absorbing the culture of Manchester in his time here. He’s got his ivory tower in Florida so one would assume if he’s seeing an opportunity to make more money then he‘ll sure as hell take it, rather than he’s some local lad who came out of Moss Side and is going to deny it on the basis that it goes against the traditions.
So? Honestly who cares
Yeah that's not the same level is it? Not even vaguely comparable.
Its still about free movement of labour. If you’re banning players from joining a competition.
Well said, better than a lot of the posts in this thread.
What would stop those 6 clubs from hoovering up all the youth talent?
No chance.
I am with Neville 90pts deduction to all teams signed up to it. Going to take years for this to get through, send them to the Champo and cut off the CL money.
Posturing from all sides.
Pure spirit of competition.
What it has to do with it is; they don’t give a fwck about the town of the fans
too true, especially when the majority end up playing 3-5 games in the tournament once every four years. It may take a few years for players to accept, but it'll be the norm in the next decade.I'll watch United just out of habit, but with zero interest or passion for the results anymore. Just watching because I'm supposed to watch the team I support, not because I'm interesting in winning or losing a trophy or a game. This will be the death of the sport in general for me.
They can go feck themselves, seriously. Imagine some league based on the shitty NBA/NFL models with no promotion/relegations, 7-game playoffs, loads of adverts etc. Wouldn't be long before the clubs became franchises and started playing home games in Kuwait.
Pretty sure Salford means something personally to them but doesn’t matter he was spot on in what he said
Spot on.
God I love Gary Neville
