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Topic	Fellow English Premier League fans.
Giggsalot 04/20/21 1:34:22 AM #46:	BlAcK TuRtLe posted... Speaking as someone who doesn't at all care about soccer, having a consolidated league with a subset of the best teams sounds like a great idea. It's impossible to follow european soccer because there's so many goddamn leagues/teams What you describe already exists, it's called the champions league. This proposal, in contrast, is the most moneyed clubs locking themselves into the top tier of football, removing all merit or sporting jeopardy from the equation and ensuring that fairytale stories like the Leicester league win from a few years back can never happen again. If this was how football had always worked, maybe one could make a case for it - closed shop leagues can work, as proven by the NBA etc. But it's throwing away everything football has been built on for over 100 years - pyramidal league systems, everyman accessibility, and local cultures, traditions and rivalries - for a quick buck. It's incredibly distasteful and could well put me off the sport for good. The problem is, the people behind this don't care about the local fan culture at all - if they can replace 10 suddenly disenfranchised and disconnected local fans with 15 casual viewers like yourself from across the world who previously found things too complex (no shade intended), that's all positive for them. --- And if you don't know, now you know. <cite>Giggsalot posted [p:953024329] in Fellow Eng... [t:79413712]...</cite> <quote>BlAcK TuRtLe posted... </cite> <quote>Speaking as someone who doesn't at all care about soccer, having a consolidated league with a subset of the best teams sounds like a great idea. It's impossible to follow european soccer because there's so many goddamn leagues/teams</quote>What you describe already exists, it's called the champions league. This proposal, in contrast, is the most moneyed clubs locking themselves into the top tier of football, removing all merit or sporting jeopardy from the equation and ensuring that fairytale stories like the Leicester league win from a few years back can never happen again. If this was how football had always worked, maybe one could make a case for it - closed shop leagues can work, as proven by the NBA etc. But it's throwing away everything football has been built on for over 100 years - pyramidal league systems, everyman accessibility, and local cultures, traditions and rivalries - for a quick buck. It's incredibly distasteful and could well put me off the sport for good. The problem is, the people behind this don't care about the local fan culture at all - if they can replace 10 suddenly disenfranchised and disconnected local fans with 15 casual viewers like yourself from across the world who previously found things too complex (no shade intended), that's all positive for them. --- And if you don't know, now you know.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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