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In the statements they've released they refer to current fans as 'legacy fans' and others as 'future fans'.
They may as well say, you lot can **** off because some sap will take your place.
I have no interest in the Premier League or Euro Competitions but I really hope this fails in a big way.
Wonder if we'll be seeing completely new clubs in this tournament, fc paris, fc Munich etc
Exactly. It's not like the other EPL clubs could just elect to evict Chelsea because of the continued existence of john Terry. There has to be an actual offense committed (employing John Terry should be an offence of course, but that's a different matter).
It's the rules that will evict these arseholes, not a majority vote
Dunno. Here’s what I read in The Independent:
“Whether the Premier League were to say ‘If you play in this Super League you can’t play in this league (Premier League) again’ would come down to some interesting arguments among the members themselves,” Stephen Taylor Heath, a specialist sports and media lawyer at JMW Solicitors told the PA news agency.
“A majority of clubs (all rule changes and major commercial contracts require the support of at least a two-thirds (14-club) vote) would have the power in terms of sanctions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...838.html%3famp
Is there anybody who posts on here, that genuinely believed that this would never happen?
This has clearly been meticulously planned by the money men at the top of the game.
They would have expected a backlash from the fans and from UEFA but clearly they've figured that they would be able to ride it out and that they are on solid enough ground legally.
The only thing that can stop this now I think is if the response from UEFA and the reaction from the fans is a LOT stronger than they anticipated.
The initial sounds out of UEFA are promising, but whether they will follow through with it remains to be seen.
I have little faith in the remaining football club owners, apparently some have already said thy liked the idea of playing without the big teams, and others will be all too easily enchanted by the carrot being dangled of the remaining 8 places in the league that aren't already accounted for.
I also doubt that any protest by the fans will be coherent or severe enough to have any effect, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.
I think it was Des Parrot who said that the timing of the announcement a day before UEFA were due to reveal their plans for a revamped Champions League has to be relevant and that struck me as being correct when I first read it. However, I'm not so sure now after seeing the tone adopted by UEFA representatives during yesterday - the comments about the twelve clubs were almost uniformly very bitter and not of the type you see from opposing parties in a dispute where you know that a solution/fudge will be reached in the end (for example in the pre Brexit vote meetings between David Cameron and the EU which would drag on for ages before a joint communique would put the conflict back another few months).
https://twitter.com/JKCorden/status/...700526595?s=19
James Corden doing a good job there
One completely removes competition and endangers the existence of the entire football pyramid, the other we wore a different colour shirt at home for a bit, same as many other clubs have done, until it was clear the fans didn't like it, then we changed back. There are some similarities but the two things are not comparable at all in terms of impact or importance.
Yep, not even remotely the same.
I don't even think the shirt change was fuelled by greed and success, more so ignorance and arrogance.
This proposal is absolutely about greed, and those pushing for it will know that they are shafting everyone else in order to get more for themselves