A legacy fan writes

The Observer has a great round-up of Premier League fans' opinions on the European Superleague including this legacy fan's contribution on West Ham. Strangely enough no-one likes it. Click on the link to read.

Six clubs and you f***ed it up!

The demise of the Superleague is a great victory for fan power. The threat hasn't gone away, but well done to everyone who has spoken out: Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Gary Lineker, Danny Murphy, Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, James Milner, Patrick Bamford, et al. And to the Leeds fans who protested and then the thousand or so Chelsea fans who turned up last night with their epic "we want our cold nights in Stoke" banner. The fans' revolution has begun. Liberté, égalité, cold nights in Stoke! Mind you, it's a shame that Spurs weren't left as the last club standing in a Superleague of one... doomed to play themselves forever in a Groundhog Day of greed.

Stick your Superleague up your Arsenal

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.