Well, it would be very like West Ham to threaten to reach the Champions' League just when the whole thing implodes. I can only echo the comments of Gary Neville and Danny Murphy, and indeed Jonathan Liew in the Guardian who says this superleague is the idea of people who hate football. A closed league where 15 clubs can never lose their place with five spots for other token European teams? What hope would there be for clubs like West Ham, Everton, Leicester, Aston Villa, Leeds and Newcastle?
It might all be a negotiating bluff by the so-called 'big six', but football has to be united on this. Ban the breakaway clubs from their domestic leagues and cups and tell the players they won't play for their national teams. Fans of the breakaway clubs should boycott games. That should concentrate the minds of players and managers. It's not even going to succeed. No-one is going to watch the same big teams every season in a tired tournament with no hint of danger. And let's give some credit to Germany and France for not being involved in this fiasco.
Are the people running these clubs really fit custodians of our national sport? If football owners are so out of touch with the fans and the joy of the football pyramid then there's a strong case for the government temporarily taking over these 'big' clubs and installing a model like in Germany, where clubs are owned 49 per cent privately and 51 per cent by the fans. Greed can't be allowed to kill our game.
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Makes you grateful for owners who are also football supporters doesn't it?!!!
For all their faults at least the Davids do turn up!
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