European Super League ban unlawful

"European Super League: Uefa and Fifa rules banning breakaway league unlawful, says court."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67783970

Given the expansion of the world club tournament next year (32 fkn team!!) and this euro stuff I just feel there is too much football everywhere, every day, all the time.

People only have so much attention span - the powers that be seem to think "oh lets just have real madrid v barcelona" 10 times a season - that is what people want"

I dont think it is what people want - they want games that have meaning.  Not every game can have the intensity of a CL semi or a worldcup final.

Its like trying to eat ice cream 3 times a day 7 days a week

Knew this would happen. Doesn’t seem the yanks and quataris etc give any sh.it’s about the consequences of this . It’s all about the $$$

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Knew this would happen. Doesn’t seem the yanks and quataris etc give any sh.it’s about the consequences of this . It’s all about the $$$

And those $$$ will diminish as the same old low intensity slop is churned out week after week.

Players are not machines.

I've stopped watching CL for example because it is just so utterly fkn meaningless until the knock out phases - and even the first knoc out phase this year is hardly worth the effort.

They can have the ESL as long as there is relegation and promotion. Grimsby v Barcelona must be theoretically possible as a fixture.

Frankly I’m past caring
I don’t watch Champions League.
I don’t watch the 100 at cricket
I don’t watch LIV golf
I don’t watch Saudi Soccer
I don’t watch American Football

Anything driven by money stinks.
I watch sport, not bankers

If I have to I’ll end up following Northern Premier League…..

Quoted from Yossarian

Given the expansion of the world club tournament next year (32 fkn team!!) and this euro stuff I just feel there is too much football everywhere, every day, all the time.

People only have so much attention span - the powers that be seem to think "oh lets just have real madrid v barcelona" 10 times a season - that is what people want"

I dont think it is what people want - they want games that have meaning.  Not every game can have the intensity of a CL semi or a worldcup final.

Its like trying to eat ice cream 3 times a day 7 days a week

Went off watching much of it  about 15 years ago , know some with the firesticks that watch games one after another from all leagues all weekend  , not sure why but if it's your thing go ahead .

I just watch Town and that does me as it's the only team I care about , I watch the big tournaments aswell and the odd 'big one ' like the FA cup final but much like the EPL if this goes ahead I have no interest apart from I would find it funny if it went pop .

The reality is, this was written on the wall the moment the PGA Tour merged with LIV Golf. Ultimately, we are living in a world increasingly motivated by money, and there are parties out there with effectively infinite quantities of it and seemingly a point to prove. Quite what that point is I’m not sure, but they seem determined to try and prove it nonetheless.

For context, the combined net worth of the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE is something like $6 trillion US dollars. That’s such an astonishingly large amount of money it’s hard to grasp, but 1 trillion is in effect 1 million million (making 6 trillion 6 million million). Put in other words, it’s double the size of the entire UK economy (the UK being the 6th largest economy in the world). It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 84 years before it reeled out 6 trillion dollar bills. Yes, I Googled that.

With that kind of cash on the table, anything goes, and concepts like tradition and sporting integrity fly out the window. It’s a sad, cynical reality, and one I don’t like, but it’s reality nonetheless.

Is there a market for it? Perhaps not in England, or in Spain, or in Germany, but in the vast and rapidly growing economies of the middle and far east, you can bet there is. As depressing as it is, it’s now simply a case of “when” and not “if”.

The Saudi's can get to intercourse, we get better attendances in League Two than most of their domestic sides manage, even with billions being pumped into them. Maybe they should try and fix that first before trying to hoover up European clubs with actual supporters who go to matches into some grotesque pan-continental super league format.