I wouldn't mind a kick in the nuts of the UEFA.
I'll get my popcorn.
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#12The idea of teams who aren't even good enough to be in the champions League on merit at the moment breaking away is a kick in the teeth. Especially jarring coming from Liverpool.
No relegation, no qualifying for tournaments, what’s the point...
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#13I think it is a shame that the 50+1 rule (which states that at least 50% of the team's voting rights must be held by club members) is only instituted in the German League. I don't think any fans actually want this super league to happen.
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#14Mate this is HN. We're A/V club not ball chasers.
I think this is interesting in a Moneyball / Fivethirtyeight / global ambitions of warring business interests kind of way.
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#15> will remain united in our efforts to stop this cynical project, a project that is founded on the self-interest of a few clubs at a time when society needs solidarity more than ever. Oh come on, the audacity, amazing. You can replace this with the pointing spiderman meme.
I think you're completely off the mark here. Currently to qualify for CL, you either have to win the CL or have to do well in domestic league (finish in top 4,3,2 or 1 depending on the league). So in a way, you've to earn the right to play in CL. With ESL, it essentially becomes a North American sports competition, where same set of teams compete every year.
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#16Please, in the name of all that is holy, lets keep football news off HN.
If the breakaway league was proposing to run on bitcoin with players contracts based on Etherium and club ownership distributed as NFT smartbeans, then maybe it would be justified, but I come here to be free of the inanity of the world of football.
Regards
KingLennon, Liverpool, UK
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#17Mate this is HN. We're A/V club not ball chasers.
What's wrong with liking football, though? This is still interesting either way, sporting or business.
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#18Mate this is HN. We're A/V club not ball chasers.
HN is super offtopic at times. Political issues are regularly discussed here despite the fact that there was 0 tech in it. At first I too disliked this, then realized, whatever! I have to filter things for myself.
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#19Please, in the name of all that is holy, lets keep football news off HN. If the breakaway league was proposing to run on bitcoin with players contracts based on Etherium and club ownership distributed as NFT smartbeans, then maybe it would be justified, but I come here to be free of the inanity of the world of football. Regards KingLennon, Liverpool, UK
I agree this has nothing to do with tech IN THE SLIGHTEST
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#20Gary Neville, former Manchester United player and current TV commentator put it really well. He loves his club, loves English football and yet he tore into these clubs for this cynical, cowardly move.
> I’ve benefitted from football hugely, I’ve made money out of football, I invest money to a football club. I’m not against money in football, but the principles and ethos of fair competition are part of the game so if Leicester win the league they go into the Champions League.
> Manchester United aren’t even in the Champions League. Arsenal aren’t in the Champions League, you watched them earlier today and they were a shambles of a football club at the moment.
> Tottenham aren’t in the Champions League and they want a god-given right to be in there? It’s an absolute joke and the time has come now for an independent regulator to stop these clubs having a power base. Enough is enough.