Holding it in one venue only means one thing for fans; getting fecked over. The average match going fan is going to be severely out of pocket to attend. Imagine that your club, who are a small European minnow, somehow make it to the semi finals. Now, instead of going to the game and drinking in the excitement, you have to watch it on TV whilst the camera pans around a crowd of investment bankers and other corporate cnuts who scored tickets because their company sponsor the competition.
This is the world now. Anything emotional or artistic is gone. It's just about filling rich people's pockets. I'm not naive to the notion that the world was always like this, but not to the level it's at nowadays. feck UEFA.
Exactly.
I really feel real football fans will gravitate more and more towards the smaller, local clubs that still have that sense of community, than these financial behemoths.
I for one really feel disgusted by everything artificial and shallow, and there are few things more artificial and shallow than the scenery that you just described with those investment bankers.
People who made football clubs made them out of urge to belong somewhere. I just don't see many real football fans feeling like they belong to that shitshow. Sadly, I do see social opportunists thriving exactly in such scenery, and they vastly outnumber true fans.
Ceferin knows it, Al Khelaifi too, of course. This is their big feck you, with middle finger pointed straight in the fans direction.