:yikes: exactly as I feel about it
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So far this season, Cardiff City have beaten a grand total of six teams - Fulham, Brighton, Wolves, Leicester, Bournemouth and Southampton (twice). Each of those victories has been greeted with great celebrations by City supporters and there's a very good reason for that.
Anyone who has supported Cardiff for any length of time will have previously seen their team beat the six clubs listed above, and beat some of them on plenty of previous occasions in the lower divisions. But this season's victories are viewed very differently by most fans as they have provided points in the battle to remain in the top flight of English football - the Premier League. And the Premier League holds the fascination that it does because it contains the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal.
Remove those huge clubs and the attraction of the Premier League would diminish rapidly. Does anyone seriously believe that Cardiff City would be attracting averaging attendances of approximately 31,000 in a division where the most glamorous opposition was the likes of Everton, West Ham and Newcastle?
If you took the top six out of the Premier League, it would be no more interesting than the Championship to most football fans. Indeed, I firmly believe both the Premier League and the Championship would prove far less attractive to almost everyone if competing against the big guns was no longer the target.
I would love to see our top 4/6 go into a Euro Super League only for no broadcasters to pay to show it in the UK. The plastics would explode. I know I’m just dreaming, but that would be great.
Exactly this. Barcelona are a great team but it doesn't bother me that we won't get to play them. The gap between the elite and the rest is so cavernous now that the only way to cross it is to spend the sort of money that has distorted the competition in the first place, and I don't want that. So let them disappear into a European super league designed for the armchair supporter and leave the rest of us to enjoy a proper competition back here.
If it did happen, then every country that has more than one team in the ESL will be affected in the same way as the PL.
At the moment the top 6 are used to winning most of the time and being the top 6 (in PL). In the ESL, some of those 6 or certainly some of the ESL, will become the cannon fodder for the top 4 or 6 of the ESL.
Fans of those teams will go from regularly winning to regularly losing. How will they cope?
What impact will that have on their sponsors and the potential to buy significant players?
What impact will it have wage structures and transfer fees just for the ESL teams?
What other impacts does it have on the remnants of the domestic leagues?
The European super League concept doesn't work because nobody will be interested when the team in fifteenth play at home to the team in sixteenth if the two clubs are 1000+ miles apart
If the ground is half full for Arsenal v Atletico Madrid but there are still millions of people watching and paying their subscriptions globally, no-one running the ESL will be that bothered.