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Its been going in this direction for years. Lucrative pre season tours, now wanting a winter break, the list goes on. To be honest football at the top level finshed for me when they gave the world cup to Qatar. Any moral high ground jumping by FIFA or UEFA now complaining about breakaway is irrelevant when the game was willing to take the blood stained dollar from the oil rich states.
The game has sold out, just like it did in 92.

 

Do wonder if this is the top clubs trying to gain more rights via a threat of a breakaway. I can't actually fathom them doing it with all of the threats that FIFA, UEFA and the national FAs have levied out. hopefully the shear outcry from all football fans will convince the clubs to change their minds. dole out some point deductions too for good measure.

I will say though, moments like this are why I am proud to support a lower league club. We don't complain we failed to get into Europe or fail to land that transfer target from la Liga. Or even fail to win a trophy in a single season!

We don't have to pay for thousands of pounds for season tickets or hundreds of pounds for "stadium" shirts.

I know we are in the 4th division and are struggling to get out of it but its ours. It feels real.

Bradford City has a soul.

 

I agree. I think I'm done with it, at the top level. For all sorts of reasons. These clubs pretend to take a moral stand on issues like racism and sexuality, than happily send players to play in tournaments with horrific human rights records. They talk about valuing and engaging supporters, but happily shit on them at the first sign of new, foreign revenue.

The whole thing stinks. Those proud traditions that Man United and Liverpool in particular profess to - forget that. You've killed it. You no longer have the right to claim your 'working class, club of the people, you'll never walk alone bollocks'. Hang your heads in shame.

 

Man United and Liverpool are bang to rights here. Forget any allegiances that lower league fans have to their 'big boy club', these 2 clubs are THE bedrock of football in this country. They've sold their soul to American owners who give not one iota of a f*ck about the traditions and support of these clubs. They're chasing the money on offer in the US and Asia, and they'll chuck every supporter of those clubs from this country, and the game in this country, under a bus to get it.

 

Honestly haven't experienced anything in football that has just wound me up to this degree before. Disgusted isn't even the word. Very telling how many owners in the PL also own NFL franchises. Also, Arsenal and Tottenham being involved in any way (and AC Milan for that matter), show this is not a super league of the best players/teams at all. So it's already a busted flush as a product, because why would anyone want to watch teams like Arsenal, Tottenham and AC Milan get spanked every week because that is absolutely what will happen. The clubs who end up at the bottom of this league will stay there and turn their clubs into perennial losers, as if Arsenal and Tottenham weren't already. So now those clubs have to market themselves as bottom of the league strugglers, and we'll see how attractive that is to the fanbase. Tbh I think the fans will either kill the idea or kill the clubs that go with it

 

Leeds would have been all over this if they had been invited, just like everyone in the PL

 

The writing was on the wall when the champions league took over from the European cup. Even the name is laughable, champions league. For finsihing 4th? The whole restructuring of football since 92 has been done for sheer greed alone. The proposed changes to the champions league is just a extension of this.

 

Love this from the Premier League :
The Premier League said a European Super League would "destroy" the dream of fans that "their team may climb to the top and play against the best".

It added such a league would "undermine the appeal of the whole game" and that they would work with the FA, the English Football League, Professional Footballers' Association, League Managers Association and fans to "defend the integrity and future prospects of English football".

The FA said it will "not provide permission to any competition that would be damaging to English football" and will "take any legal and/or regulatory action necessary" to stop it.

They didn't think much about other teams when they formed The Premier League.

Gary Neville having a right go and rightly so, talking about the owners of Liverpool (you'll never walk alone sh!t) and Man United formed by worker many years ago, not forgetting the likes of Chelsea and Man City.

 

He normally comes across as a massive tw@t on most things but as a football fan I couldn’t agree with him more.Greedy b@stards who he thinks are massive bottlers when push comes to shove.Anybody who hasn’t seen him should try and find his rant after today’s game.Even Roy Keane agrees with him and he really does think Neville is a massive tw@t.
@bantamdave41 has posted it now above

 

A very emotional reply from Neville but he was brought up with Manchester United as a boy with his brother, loved the "you'll never walk alone" comment with regards Liverpool.

 

I smell bullshit with that one tbh....

 

Delighted if they go, we'd be the top team in London

 

The irony is, the PL has enabled and welcome these Billionaire owners coming into the game. And its come home to roost.

 

I never thought I'd find myself saying this... but I really hope Leeds thrash Liverpool tonight.