Makes a good point about how the top 6 shouldn't be given special privileges . Says we shouldn't stop here.
Now that this has all happened, the football authorities should use this as a springboard to really clean up.
Do you think there has been some dealing behind the scenes to get them back? Possibly getting more cash from the trough!
Think it's down to fan power and public indignation. The suits sitting in ivory towers, thousands of miles away, will be totally perplexed.
The thing that worries me is that this super league was all done and dusted in secret meetings. They already have the infrastructure sorted. If they wanted to be transparent they could of gauged the opinion of fans, fellow clubs, uefa and the government, before this was done, they may have backed down for now but i dont think it will go away
I think the massive opposition surprised the owners of the English clubs, with them gone it was a no brainer. Can't see it being tabled again in the near future. Whether it is a play for more Premier League money is more of a worry & the pressure needs to be kept up on that. The funny thing is most USA sport, like American Football & Baseball dealt with this years ago to retain competitiveness. The one thing we don't need is no promotion / relegation from the Premier League, which I suspect may be on any agenda for a deal.
The line that seems to be getting used a lot is that its not the fault of the players and the fans. Neither is going into administration, but the clubs that do still get a points deduction.
Sky already playing that line regarding any sanctions , they clearly want them in the Champions League and to stay in the Premiership for their viewing figures , somewhat hypocritical
The promotion/relegation change, should it ever get mooted, will make for bigger protests than those of the last 48 hours
What an hypocrite Parish is those Helen. Made all the noises you’d expect about ESL but when it was put to him that the Govt were considering the German model where all clubs (by law) have to have 51% fan ownership, he nearly sh|t himself.
The difference is the people in the game and with a platform spoke against it . If Sky etc had stopped Neville using their platform it wouldn’t have stopped it imo . Next time they may have to buy off the media and it’s pundits . Not saying there wouldn’t have been passionate opposition but if they could have muted it they would and o think that’s the next step for them imo get them onboard.
I wonder if they didn't mention the 'closed shop' element of it when running those polls. I'm not sure there would have been any issue with it if it had just been a new elite European competition with fewer teams that sat above the champion's league, and I could actually see that being really popular - it's the separation of it from the pyramid that was the problem for me.
Agree. I nearly wet myself when I heard the Palace chairman talking about the voice of the fans. “A football Club can’t do anything unless it has the fans behind it”. I can think of two or three cases where that applies but that’s about it. He must think it’s 1958.
But going into administration is the result of years of overspending (that players benefitted from directly) leading to success on the pitch that the fans were happy to see. So to say that financial mismanagement isn't done by the players and fans is incorrect.
