this season, but with the breaking news last night of the formation of a European Super League, then I simply have to give my take on it.
Last night was the cumulation of the inevitable, money has finally taken over the game. This has been coming for years, and you would have to be completely naive to think it would never be happening.
With the formation of the Prem, and the change of format to the old European competitions, the money men had arrived, and the formation of a super league is just an extension of what has gone on the past 30 years.
What did everybody expect when the likes of Abramovich, The Sheiks and the Yanks turned up to hijack our game. They only have one thing on their minds to run clubs as mega businesses, blow all opposition out of the water.
The sancitmonous Gary Neville on Sky last night whinging about this new proposed super league, when he himself earns his crust from one of the biggest contributers to football going this way, SKY TV. They have all but ruined Saturday 3pm kick off as we knew the game. Games are switched at a whim, without any thought of supporters, just so that SKY can get their massive slice of the cake.
The Prem league bosses had absolutely no qualms of changing the league 30 years back, they showed no such sympathy to the smaller clubs, by effectively making them the paupers of football, if you didn`t play in the Prem, so what goes around comes around.
Supporters club groups are also hypocritically up in arms, when they would all be behind a mega takeover of their clubs by a super rich owner, that would pump billions in, and elevate their clubs to the top, and become trophy winning machines. Our fan base on here is a typical example of that. Continually saying they want the club sold to a mega rich buyer, who will elevate Spurs up the pyramid, without a thought for opposition clubs, at the lower end of the scale.
I am glad I watched most of my football in the last century, long before the Prem and CL were formed where greed became the order of the day. Football for years has been purely a business, where dog eats dogs, and the richest come out on top. I shall of course continue to follow Spurs, and go to WHL, in whatever form the game takes. But I am not so stupid to think that the game is anything other than a cash cow now for the richest and privileged.
If the Prem and UEFA think they will get all the players to stay with them, think again. Players will jump at the chance to get their salaries doubled overnight with this new super league.
The game was lost years back, but not sure why everybody is to surprised it took the turn it did last night, it was as inevitable as night follows day.
RIP Football
PS At least the pressure is now off from Spurs finishing in the top four. They will now have CL football for evermore.
I had intended not to post again
posted on 19/4/21
comment by sandy, Jose In (U20567)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 2 minutes ago
“I’m disgusted with Manchester United and Liverpool the most,” Neville said. “They’re breaking away to a competition they can’t be relegated from? It’s an absolute disgrace. We have to wrestle back power in this country from the clubs at the top of this league – and that includes my club.
“It’s pure greed, they’re impostors. The owners of Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City have nothing to do with football in this country. Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham aren’t even in the Champions League. Have they even got the right to be in there?
Gary Neville
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Eddie, Neville is so hypcritcal. He is happy to take his money from Sky, the company that has done as much to ruin football as any other. He has pandered to the Sky four or five all his broadcasting career. If United are not in the CL he is the first to moan. Him and his like pander to the money men, and keeping United as one of the elite at any cost.
I don`t take a lot of notice of him at all. He, along with others were drooling over a financially doped semi-final between Chelsea and City, and will no doubt be salivating over PSG v City, another financially doped match up.
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He is spot on with what he says about the SL.
posted on 19/4/21
comment by sandy, Jose In (U20567)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 5 minutes ago
I agree with Sandy.....this has been cooking for years.
Will it be successful?
The devil is in the details......where is the initial investment coming from .... why is it thought the advertising revenue will pay for it...... what happens if other major clubs, Bayern, PSG, ....do not join in....who is going to run it all .... who controls the rules enforcement....what are the rules......
I do not think this is a done deal.
Will footballing standards be any higher than they are now?
Why would they be?
The players don't suddenly become supermen.
Its a scam by a group of owners....pure and simple.
And the Glazers head that list
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Bayern and PSG will absolutely join in Ted. No way will they want to be left behind.
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Bayern and Dortmund are in a more difficult situation, they need they fans to agree because of how the clubs are structured.
It seems simple that they will join but it's far from it.
posted on 19/4/21
Next step will be franchises moving like in the US. Imagine Tottenham becoming Dover Hotspur because the owners sell to someone who wants to be nearer the coast.
posted on 19/4/21
Why Delaware?
posted on 19/4/21
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by sandy, Jose In (U20567)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 2 minutes ago
“I’m disgusted with Manchester United and Liverpool the most,” Neville said. “They’re breaking away to a competition they can’t be relegated from? It’s an absolute disgrace. We have to wrestle back power in this country from the clubs at the top of this league – and that includes my club.
“It’s pure greed, they’re impostors. The owners of Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City have nothing to do with football in this country. Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham aren’t even in the Champions League. Have they even got the right to be in there?
Gary Neville
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Eddie, Neville is so hypcritcal. He is happy to take his money from Sky, the company that has done as much to ruin football as any other. He has pandered to the Sky four or five all his broadcasting career. If United are not in the CL he is the first to moan. Him and his like pander to the money men, and keeping United as one of the elite at any cost.
I don`t take a lot of notice of him at all. He, along with others were drooling over a financially doped semi-final between Chelsea and City, and will no doubt be salivating over PSG v City, another financially doped match up.
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He is spot on with what he says about the SL.
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Eddie, he may be spot on, but that does not mean he is not being super hypocritical. He panders to the top clubs, as if clubs like City and Chelsea have actually earnt their ways to the top they haven`t. They have brought their way to the top, but he never mentions that.
posted on 19/4/21
Amuses me the way some are saying the players will make a stand. As if they are going to turn down a chance to double their money before the start of next season.
posted on 19/4/21
To defend Gary. You can work within the corrupt system while advocating for change. If he becomes a martyr for the cause then he doesn’t have this voice on a global platform highlighting how abhorrent this change is.
posted on 19/4/21
Sandy your reaction to Jose being pretty much sacked.
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2021/april/club-statement/
New permanent manager to come in after the season ends it looks like.
posted on 19/4/21
Change the name Sandy Jose gone
posted on 19/4/21
Jose In