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But they’ve sacked Maureen nowHate to break it to you but Spurs made the cut.
But they’ve sacked Maureen nowHate to break it to you but Spurs made the cut.
This. It should be a sticky post at the top of all the hundred or so super league threads.I just cant stand the hypocrisy anymore.
How many people were willing to sell our souls to the Saudis. Here we are fighting against racism and for womans football rights but fk it lets sell out to one of the most corrupt nations with human rights violations. Newcastle fans are willing to sell their mums for a chance to get Mbappe and if given half a chance so will most clubs.
Sell votes for Qatar world up. Heck yeah lets do it. How many deaths of migrant workers building the Qatar world cup. Oh never mind.
Get sponsored by Gazprom the right hand of Putin. Fk yeah.
Financial fair play! Ha what a joke. Man City blatantly fkd that one over and what does everyone do? Nothing.
The players - Oh I love football. All I play for is the love of grassroots football. Who do you play for? Oh PSG but that doesnt count.
And on and on it goes.
Not saying that the Super League is right or wrong, Im still processing it, but Im sick of listening to so called lovers of the game when in fact they sold out years ago. Lets say it gets cancelled. What happens then. A fair league? A fair champions league? Bollox it is. There will be Man City winning most years. Maybe the oil money from Chelsea. Every now and again Utd or Liverpool might get in like doing a Leicester. But the real challengers of City will be the likes of Newcastle or whoever the next blood money club that comes along. UEFA and FIFA will still be running their mafia, taking bribes and pretending its all so pure and for the love of football.
Lets get real people. Football sold out years ago. Super League is just another example of it. And not even the worst of it.
Current football you sometimes play huge games and sometimes play against small teams. Smaller teams can dream of upsets, beating the big team and that resonates with so much of the world and that's why it's always been the most popular sport in the world. Teams could always dream, and upsets happen in football more than any other sport. You take that away, and every "big game" is just another game. There is no more big or small games, because it'll be the same big games, every year, against the same teams.So playing Barca, RM etc will lose it's feeling yet playing Burnley, Brighton will not or isnt a standard games and diluted. The duality.
You want UEFA and guys running the game on £1m + with all their historic issues.. They're like babies throwing the toys out of the pram.
Lets wait and see..
I'm not really pro-ESL, but:Itll quickly lose its novel feeling and just be standard games and dilute the product.
History and tradition must have a start somewhere some time.So you enjoyed the mighty Nations League as well? Because a lot of top national teams played each other...
Feck it, i found it boring as feck even though Switzerland played Germany, Belgium and even participated in the first final tournement. I really found this games less exciting than our latest Worldcup qualifiers vs Bulgaria and Lithuania in march.
And why? Because there is absolutely no charme or tradition in the Nations League. It will be the same for this ESL. Football is more than two teams playing good football against each other. A 0:0 in a Worldcup semifinal will always be much more exciting than a 4:3 in a friendly or a random newly promoted competition like the ESL.
That's the hilarious side of it. Just because it's gonna have the teams with best players (on paper), people are thinking it would automatically mean amazing exciting end to end football with golazos every game. It's like they haven't watched the champions league and especially the big 6 ties the last few years.Joses gone now though. Super League saved!
Football definitely needs a restructure. But a closed competition and wanting to just split up from the rest is cancerous and the people involved deserve to be locked up.I'm not pro-ESL, but:
The ESL matches between big clubs can't possibly become less prestigious current domestic football. Real Madrid against Bayern would be less special if it happened twice a year than it is now when it happens a handful of times per decade, but it's not like it would become less interesting than Real Madrid vs Valladolid or Bayern vs FC Köln. I imagine the ESL hype would fall somewhere between today's average league game and the most anticipated CL ties, i.e. more than the former and less than the latter. On the other hand, there would be fifty times more football between strong teams than there is now.
And if we look past Bayern, Barca, Real and what few other clubs routinely make it far in the CL, it would be a huge rise in the general caliber of matches that teams like Tottenham and AC Milan get to play, as well as whatever other clubs would get invited to the new league. It's a shame that it's happening this way, because it's a really ugly and potentially catastrophic way for it to happen--but I wouldn't be able to deny that if it works out the way it's intended, I would watch a whole lot more football than I have in recent years.
I really wish this could be accomplished in a less contentious manner that doesn't hurt domestic leagues, but unless the schism leads to a general collapse of European football, I think the end result will be very popular. I had hoped that UEFA would be the ones to bring something new to the table, because I frankly think football needs something new. Aside from the financial and technological aspects, nothing new has really happened with the game in like seventy years.
Oh I don't agree with that conclusion but evidently that's what Wall St and the club owners think.You will realize just how wrong that statement is, very very quickly.
It will still happen. This Arsenal team are not the same level as Madrid for example, it would still be a surprise if they beat them over two legs.Current football you sometimes play huge games and sometimes play against small teams. Smaller teams can dream of upsets, beating the big team and that resonates with so much of the world and that's why it's always been the most popular sport in the world. Teams could always dream, and upsets happen in football more than any other sport. You take that away, and every "big game" is just another game. There is no more big or small games, because it'll be the same big games, every year, against the same teams.
You're commenting on playing Burnley? Are we too good to play a team like Burnley or something? The team we've only just beat for the first time in 5 seasons at home against? Right. This is a completely disgusting proposal, and anyone in support of it has 0 understanding of the actual roots and values of football in the first place. It'll fail if it does start, because most of the masses that actually follow football will follow the remaining 99% of clubs, and not the disgusting 12 who are leaving who won't have as many real supporters overall.
It's why ESL have Arsenal and Tottenham!Current football you sometimes play huge games and sometimes play against small teams. Smaller teams can dream of upsets, beating the big team and that resonates with so much of the world and that's why it's always been the most popular sport in the world. Teams could always dream, and upsets happen in football more than any other sport. You take that away, and every "big game" is just another game. There is no more big or small games, because it'll be the same big games, every year, against the same teams.
You're commenting on playing Burnley? Are we too good to play a team like Burnley or something? The team we've only just beat for the first time in 5 seasons at home against? Right. This is a completely disgusting proposal, and anyone in support of it has 0 understanding of the actual roots and values of football in the first place. It'll fail if it does start, because most of the masses that actually follow football will follow the remaining 99% of clubs, and not the disgusting 12 who are leaving who won't have as many real supporters overall.
Yeah when I first learnt about the new Champions League format I thought that was shit. Surprised not many complained about it.I certainly prefer the Super league format to the new Champions League format coming in 2024
The arrogance of this.People are angry because the media has told them to be.