With Wenger saying a European Super-League is inevitable, it seems the end is coming to the game I enjoyed as I grew up. He compares the lower attendances and TV audiences for Champions League matches with higher ones at the top games in the Premier League and other European top leagues, and writes-off over half the Premier League and everything below that.
While out here on the Left Coast I enjoy watching the Premier League and Bundersliga (spelling?) on TV or Internet streaming, Rovers on iFollow will always win my viewing time.
I'm old enough to remember when football was looked upon as an outlet that "working men" could enjoy, supporting local teams, often with local players, and well remember George Eastham's strike for the end of the 20 pound maximum wage. While fully supportive of his efforts, did anyone realise the flood gates that were being opened?
It is hard to imagine how a team like our beloved Rovers, on such a limited budget, can ever get out of League One and succeed as a mid-table team in the Championship. However, teams such as Barnsley have had very brief skirmishes in the Premier League, but will be playing us next season.
I get a little encouragement today reading the BBC report for the Non-League play-off today where Boredom Wood (in the seventh tier 5 years ago) only just lost to Tranmere (in League One in 2014) to get into the League. While I'm happy to see Tranmere back, it would be great to see a minnow make it.
Am I just an old f--t living in the past, or have we all lost something?
Sadly, football in just a business
posted on 12/5/18
comment by Will Scarlet (U17891)
posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
Let the “big six” sod off. We won’t miss them.
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4 of whom such can't even win the English league so what would be the point of them joining another league they won't win. Money is the answer I guess.
posted on 12/5/18
How do you stop it?
posted on 13/5/18
comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 4 hours, 50 minutes ago
I could see a European super league becoming a US style franchise system, with city moves, drafts, expansions and all that crap.
Don't get me wrong I love US sports but football is much better for being so much closer to grass roots.
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What do you mean by this post?
Franchises? Like Liverpool would move to Baku if they built them a stadium and promised more money?
Drafts? Like the college system in the US? Teams would no longer sign players as kids but draft them from universities?
Expansions? The league would add more teams?
Do t mean to sound like a d!ck but I really don't understand anything you say here Fred.
posted on 13/5/18
Well, I thought I was just talking to Donny Rovers' fans. I'm flabbergasted that fans of Liverpool, Forest, Celtic, Leeds, and Real Madrid (!?!) bother to look at JA606 from "the likes of Doncaster".
posted on 13/5/18
They’ve only come to see the Rovers.
posted on 13/5/18
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 6 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 4 hours, 50 minutes ago
I could see a European super league becoming a US style franchise system, with city moves, drafts, expansions and all that crap.
Don't get me wrong I love US sports but football is much better for being so much closer to grass roots.
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What do you mean by this post?
Franchises? Like Liverpool would move to Baku if they built them a stadium and promised more money?
Drafts? Like the college system in the US? Teams would no longer sign players as kids but draft them from universities?
Expansions? The league would add more teams?
Do t mean to sound like a d!ck but I really don't understand anything you say here Fred.
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Well you lose the whole idea of relegation and promotion. You have several elite clubs and they break away from the rest of the football pyramid which is how it works stateside. That would be sad to see.
posted on 13/5/18
I don’t know why this European Super League is seen by inevitable by everyone. I don’t think fans from any team from any country would actually want to see it happen. Plus, how would they even work out who belongs in the league and who doesn’t. You can’t have 6 teams from England in the Super League when 3 of those 6 have never won the CL and 2 of those 6 have never won the PL.
If you have 6 English clubs then what’s to stop the Leverkusens, Marseilles and Villarreals of this world thinking they should be in the league too. All of a sudden you’ve got 40 teams clamoring to be in there looking for their payday and it becomes a pointless exercise.
UEFA should bring in a 3rd teir competition and also stop rewarding CL failures with a 2nd chance of success by giving them a bye to the EL last 32. Those are the changes they should be making, non of this Super League crap
posted on 13/5/18
comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 4 hours, 22 minutes ago
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 6 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 4 hours, 50 minutes ago
I could see a European super league becoming a US style franchise system, with city moves, drafts, expansions and all that crap.
Don't get me wrong I love US sports but football is much better for being so much closer to grass roots.
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What do you mean by this post?
Franchises? Like Liverpool would move to Baku if they built them a stadium and promised more money?
Drafts? Like the college system in the US? Teams would no longer sign players as kids but draft them from universities?
Expansions? The league would add more teams?
Do t mean to sound like a d!ck but I really don't understand anything you say here Fred.
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Well you lose the whole idea of relegation and promotion. You have several elite clubs and they break away from the rest of the football pyramid which is how it works stateside. That would be sad to see.
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Yeah that doesn't make any sense. The elite clubs don't break away from anything over here. They all play in one league.
There will be no franchises or drafts or expansions or whatever else terms you want to sling around
posted on 13/5/18
Hound only if 26 is playing surely
posted on 13/5/18
Lanza, I am glad you agree.