TheBrownBottle

Yep, though I don’t doubt that the legions of weird cunts around the globe who ‘support’ them will be rejoicing on Twitter right now. The ones who treat a football club as a penis extension, which they picked because it had Messi or C Ronaldo playing

The Super League was a closed shop which excluded all of those clubs. It’s not just the domestic leagues that are the issue - the greed of the same clubs who wanted this super league pish are the ones who wrecked European competition as it existed. And you think that they’ve suddenly decided to share everything? Give over.

Have any clubs come out yet saying they’re joining? Haven’t seen owt, but I’m not on Twitter etc

He comes across as someone who tortured animals and insects when he was a kid

A closed shop of rich clubs playing each other forever? Sounds great that.

Aye, that’s what is being forgotten. There was never a ‘legal’ issue - the clubs don’t have a legal right to play in both via the ruling. They can piss off and play in a different competition if they want; UEFA etc don’t need to have them registered with them. That also applies to the PL & FA

Good to know there is one

Just on 5Live explaining it. Sounds like pretty much another closed shop. Utter shite

The European Court’s ruling has no impact on English clubs tbf - a change to the UK Competition Act likely could block clubs joining

Doesn’t sound hellish to me, either.

Doesn’t sound like the drama being put out by the papers according to 5Live.

UEFA and the FA need reform, not smashing on the altar of a pack of greedy cunts

Or calling bullshit on it if their ‘custodians of the club’ patter is genuine

I take your point, but it’s still hard to see how that happens. European places are in the gift of the FA, the FA is a member of UEFA - I don’t see circumstances where the FA allows English clubs to effectively break away from UEFA.

Yep ‘The atmosphere is crap’; yes Jurgen, and the reason for it is that local young’uns are priced out and rich day trippers are priced in - maybe if you all drop your salary expectations, the locals and the atmosphere might return. I won’t hold my breath …

Golf is a sport for individuals - wealthy individuals, mainly. It’s not comparable for me - there was no real outcry re LIV on a national level (there was within the sport); no-one views Graeme McDowell as a national institution.

Only game in town as in European football, or only game for English clubs? If NUFC broke away from the FA and UEFA to join this unsanctioned shit show them the club would be dead to me.

Got you - yeah, as Christ said above, it’s against PL rules now. You’d need to leave the English football pyramid to join.

Even if we were invited in, I’d walk from the club if we entered it. Bollocks to that. We’d need a new Newcastle club.

The PL was more than that - it was a breakaway league which was created simply so that the big boys wouldn’t spit their dummies out completely - they hated sharing their money with the rest of the football pyramid. You’re right, it’s not a closed shop. Same goes for the ‘Champions League’ - it’s fundamentally different from the old European Cup for the same reasons. Money knackered football decades ago.

I’m not in favour of the Super League nonsense, but all nations definitely don’t have a chance. They used to, then the big Western European leagues wanted all the money for themselves and pulled up the drawbridge. No side to the East of Italy and Germany has a real chance to win the European Cup now.

Liverpool stayed at Anfield and have suffered the day trippers as long as I can remember. Staying at or leaving SJP won’t make a difference on that front.

The existence of the ‘Premier League’ and ‘Champions League’ is proof that the structures have already been completely fucked by ludicrous amounts of greed.

I think the opposite is true - UEFA will be shutting their pants that the usual suspects will be raring to fuck off again. FFP is what keeps the status quo - they’ll bend over backwards for them now

Doesn’t even feel like news. Of course it’s anti-competitive. So is FFP. And while we’re on it, I have doubts that the whole thing about holding a club holding a player’s registration with a ridiculous buyout clause would pass if challenged in European courts. The English, French and German clubs won’t do it - though the English ones won’t because of pressures external to the clubs. It always tickled me that the geniuses behind it didn’t see the flaw - that some of these clubs would just end up as the also-rans. Football is broken already, not sure how much of a difference this ruling makes.