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They won't ever have been on the terraces though to be fair. executive box, executive seats yes, but not terraces...
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I'm slightly nonplussed by the outpouring about this on The Fishy.
This is so far away from us. I personally feel it has nothing to do with me. We are already the impoverished relations in football and we're not going to be worse off as a result of this because we can't get worse off (in football terms). We won't lose money because we don't get any money from the current set up as it is.
My gut feeling is that Real can play Chelsea every other week for gazillions but we (and many clubs like us) will continue to plough our little backwater furrow in an alternative football universe.
Have we had 'The Hope' taken away from us? Not really, we're not going to win the EPL and want to play in the Super League. Hope for us is mid table in The Championship one day, right now it's that Southend and us win tonight.
Do I care that Liverpool or Arsenal are owned by Americans (or whatever)? Not really, that ship has sailed. Football at that level has been about money for years and if the 'big clubs' are run by money obsessed billionaires milking every cent then so what?
And what of 'the fans'? The working class heroes on the terraces? Please find me one Liverpool supporter who took a step back when they won the Champions League last time and said "we really need to think about how our win can benefit Grimsby Town". I'll be here waiting......
I see where you’re coming from, but this won’t be the end of it, just like the premier league’s foundation wasn’t the end. Look at the way the youth development funding works and how talented kids can get scooped up. This lot don’t know the meaning of enough. |
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In an alternative universe with GTFC top of the premier league we just know King Fenty would be bashing his member all over the shop right now 😂
Poor John Lennel Lewis, I know he's missed a few sitters just lately, but to me bashed out by Fenty's member is a tad unfair 🤣 |
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Will be interesting to see what Pep Guardiola's press conference will be like in an hours time? The silence from Man City's owners is very unlike them and worrying, despite them being in a no-win situation. They haven't invested for the past 13 years to then suddenly decline a place at the perceived 'top table' ... but then again alienate the entire Blues fanbase in the process?
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Spurs in the Big 6? When did they last win the league? 1962 wasn’t it?
And Forest have twice as many CL wins as Arsenal, Chelse, Man City and Spurs put together.
But it’s not about merit obviously.
Whole thing stinks.
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Sky/BT subscription more like. Or watch it in the pub.
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Spurs in the Big 6? When did they last win the league? 1962 wasn’t it?
And Forest have twice as many CL wins as Arsenal, Chelse, Man City and Spurs put together.
But it’s not about merit obviously.
Whole thing stinks.
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I see where you’re coming from, but this won’t be the end of it, just like the premier league’s foundation wasn’t the end. Look at the way the youth development funding works and how talented kids can get scooped up. This lot don’t know the meaning of enough.
Youth development is the one area where we could benefit - if we sold a youth product to a team in the new super league we could probably make a fortune (as Stevenage just have) but the last player we sold to a premier league team was (I think) John Oster. It may not be the end of it, but it still won't affect us. If a world cup for clubs was set up for Super League clubs and they decided to play it on Saturn, in terms of Grimsby Town, so what? |
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That poll is based on 1300 odd votes.
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The Manchester derby on the Disney Channel
Serious point... There’s a league with 15 permanent members and of those members 3 are from London, and 2 each from Manchester, Madrid and Milan. How long down the line before, maybe the Glazers, decide having Man City on their doorstep means their market is too overcrowded and they want to move their SL home games to another city (maybe New York)? What’s to stop Fenway moving a couple of home matches to Boston? Or Stan Kroenke having Arsenal home games in Los Angeles? Money talks with these people. Nothing is off the table for them. |
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