Rockford's Love Child
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I am sure many of you have seen the news regarding the proposed European Super League.
This is clearly an absolute abomination, but I think it is the inevitable result of developments in English football since the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The supporters of clubs like Rovers warned this was the direction football was heading in when the Sky League was first created. However, it is only now, when they are directly affected, that clubs like Everton express outrage at the further concentration of wealth and power in a handful of clubs. They were perfectly happy to ride the gravy train when they were one of the beneficiaries, as were the EPL bosses who are exasperated at being usurped by a proposed new organisation, but have been perfectly willing to strip power and wealth from the EFL clubs over the past thirty years.
I think this development would actually be beneficial to the lower division clubs, on the proviso that the participating clubs are kicked out of all domestic competitions and are unable to return. The remaining EPL clubs would lose a lot of their television income, reducing the gap between the EPL and the Championship and resulting in the abolition, or at least reduction, of parachute payments. That would be good for competition in the EFL and would make it easier for clubs like Rovers to progress up the divisions. It would probably also mean the domestic cup competitions would be preserved, rather than being continually undermined or even scrapped under the status quo.
The idea that Spurs are part of a European 'elite', but Benfica and Ajax aren't, is completely laughable though.
This is clearly an absolute abomination, but I think it is the inevitable result of developments in English football since the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The supporters of clubs like Rovers warned this was the direction football was heading in when the Sky League was first created. However, it is only now, when they are directly affected, that clubs like Everton express outrage at the further concentration of wealth and power in a handful of clubs. They were perfectly happy to ride the gravy train when they were one of the beneficiaries, as were the EPL bosses who are exasperated at being usurped by a proposed new organisation, but have been perfectly willing to strip power and wealth from the EFL clubs over the past thirty years.
I think this development would actually be beneficial to the lower division clubs, on the proviso that the participating clubs are kicked out of all domestic competitions and are unable to return. The remaining EPL clubs would lose a lot of their television income, reducing the gap between the EPL and the Championship and resulting in the abolition, or at least reduction, of parachute payments. That would be good for competition in the EFL and would make it easier for clubs like Rovers to progress up the divisions. It would probably also mean the domestic cup competitions would be preserved, rather than being continually undermined or even scrapped under the status quo.
The idea that Spurs are part of a European 'elite', but Benfica and Ajax aren't, is completely laughable though.
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