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Shoco
Roy Keane Hail Hail the Celts are here Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Location: Celthick Park Status: Offline Points: 13727 |
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Less than one percent of members here are season ticket holders to a club that would be affected. Club football is a tv programme to most people on this forum. Same with LOI now, I just don’t get excited for games anymore as it is just a tv programme these days.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Cricket used to be on terrestrial television Nobody watches it now 20 20 is just bang bang cricket No subtlety or strategy at all A six match Cornhill Insurance test series was where it was at If you wanted quick cricket, semi-final day of the NatWest Trophy was where it was at A random Wednesday afternoon in August featuring Essex v Lancashire from Chelmsford and Hampshire v Yorkshire from the County Ground in Southampton 60 overs per side with live BBC2 coverage frequently alternating between each semi-final You'd be glued to it the whole day
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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The European Clubs Association has been at loggerheads with UEFA for years now over their (ECA) plans for a breakaway European Super League. Remember, UEFA represents 53 Member Associations, not a (relative) handful of big clubs, so everything they do is designed to keep their Members happy. Which is why, rather than restricting the CL in order to keep "the riff raff out" (as you put it earlier), they've actually been expanding it. And lo and behold, just as this latest threat of a Super League emerges, UEFA are now talking about extending the number of clubs in the CL further again: As for their trying to "undermine international football to keep the 12-14 teams happy", are you on drugs or something? Why do you think they've eg regularly expanded the Euro's? Why do you think they introduced the Nations League? Answer: Because internationals are where they get a huge chunk of their money, which they then plough back to their Member Associations to keep them happy. Meanwhile, the big clubs HATE all these extra international matches which are being shoehorned into the calendar. As for the Conference, you do appreciate that this will see even MORE clubs from (mostly) the small Associations getting to play European club football not fewer, and more TV money, which in turn will go back to the Associations, not the likes of Real Madrid or Man Utd.
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Why do reply to me? Once I see it is you, or Planning, I don't read it. It's your own time, I guess.
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 9981 |
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It’s an entertainment business! The IPL is one of the best competitions to watch in sport.
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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I went to The Oval for a Twenty/20 game and it was sh*te. Put me off cricket for ages! It was like training and seemed to take away from the skills needed in the sport. It was just lads swinging a bat.
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 9981 |
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In fairness I wouldn't watch any county cricket, the standard will obviously be poorer! I only watch the internationals and big tournaments like the IPL and Big Bash.
It separates the best bowlers from the average bowlers. The likes of Archer, Bumrah, Rashid Khan, Rabada, Cummins etc will look good in all formats of the game.
The fielding I have seen during this IPL has been unbelievable, majority of the players are proper athletes now.
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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I can see the attraction of test cricket. There's nothing in that IPL, for me anyway.
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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Is that the best you have? Why reply at all, when it just draws more attention to your own confused, silly effort? P.S. I might have added that this new breakaway ESL is said to have the backing of FIFA. And FIFA are at daggers drawn with UEFA, since FIFA/their Members greatly resent that Europe generates the overwhelming bulk of the money, interest and progress in the world game, so they're determined to undermine UEFA (to prevent UEFA keeping more of the influence this should give them for themselves). But you won't read that either, I suppose....
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kevincronin2000
Jack Charlton Cork Airport Dogging Administrator Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Location: P. Rep of Cork Status: Offline Points: 5285 |
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Ok I'll look at what positives could come out of a European super League from an Irish prospective. Even in its current format there are many big clubs who will never qualify for the group stages of the champions League, in its current format it's out of reach for even clubs like Celtic.
Having a European super League with a proper pryamid system could be half decent for league of Ireland clubs, being in a division with the likes of Leigia Warsaw, Rosenberg might be better than playing Waterford 4 times a year. Also if the European cup reverted back to a straight knock out competition you could still have the potential for David v Goliath clashes similar to the FA cup with league of Ireland sides being the equivalent of conference teams in the FA cup. There still needs to be an entry avenue for domestic clubs into this superleague it could work like the Heineken cup in rugby where the lowest rank Irish side drops out to be replaced by the league of Ireland champions. A lot of its and buts and time will tell but you can be gaurented that this will be dictated by the big clubs. |
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Jackal
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I don't think any of the big English clubs have working class local fans at games anymore. It is mostly tourists. It'll make no difference to the fan that goes to games.
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Shedite
Jack Charlton Joined: 09 Dec 2011 Status: Offline Points: 9815 |
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Trap junior
Robbie Keane YBIG Minister of Doom & Gloom Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Location: Irish Riviera Status: Offline Points: 39759 |
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Trap Junior Sports can exclusively reveal hidden camera footage of the meeting today involving Europe's top clubs Edited by Trap junior - 20 Oct 2020 at 8:21pm |
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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As 'Shedite' indicates, you can be certain any ESL will NOT have Promotion & Relegation, that's a certainty. The whole point is for the "top" sides to have this permanently to themselves, get ever richer, pull ever further away from the rest of football. Which is why eg UEFA have a Group stage in the CL rather than straight knock-out - this guarantees a set number of games for the big sides (to persuade them not to break away). It's no coincidence that eg the two English clubs behind it (LFC and MU) are owned by Yanks, with a giant US bank financing it all: their experience of US sports operating a franchise system with no promotion or relegation protects the owners' investments. Which consideration is first, last and everything in between.
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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The days of (all) working class, local fans went out years ago, along with coal miners, flat caps and boozers which didn't allow women in the bar (unless she had big tits and was serving). This is a reflection of socio-economic factors which have seen the working class shrink, as the middle class has grown. And as they've become more affluent, those middle-classes have moved out to the suburbs or the country from their former inner-city homes, where they have often been replaced by poor immigrant familes, with no affiliation to football, or connection to the local club. (Besides which they're priced out) I've seen that at Spurs, where the local communities used to be Irish, Greeks, Turks and West Indians etc, now replaced by people from Africa, Asia and all over. The point being that Spurs support is heavily made up of people who train in from all over the Northern Home Counties (or other parts of London/S.East), being Spurs fans because their Dads and Grandads were. Meanwhile, they do get a lot of tourists - if you think eg 5,000 in a 60,000 crowd is a "lot"; it's certainly nowhere near "mostly", for no other reason that Spurs have 42,000 Season Ticket holders, seats which "tourists" can't get their hands on. And as one of those ST holders, I make no comment on this either way, it's all just the way of the world. But I can tell you one thing, had English football clung on to their traditional working class fans to the exclusion of all others, then it would have gone the way of the miners, flat caps and old mens' boozers, killed off by hooliganism, death trap stadia and casual racism, sexism and homophobia. "The Good Old Days", as I think they used to call it...
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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That is, the big 10-12 teams, all self-selected from those leagues you mention, will be something like Real Madrid, Barca, Liverpool, Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Bayern, Dortmund, PSG, Juve and AC Milan. They will then invite another 7 or 8 teams to join them, based on their ability to attract audiences in their domestic markets eg Ajax/Netherlands, Benfica/Portugal, Olympiakos/Greece, Zenit/Russia, Anderlecht/Belgium, maybe even Brondby/Denmark or Celtic/Scotland?! An Istanbul team would also likely "qualify", though I don't know which one. They will also exclude competitors in their own market, where possible. Eg Real & Barca may not want Atletico (unsure); Chelsea will be wary about having both Arsenal and Spurs on their doorstep; Liverpool won't want Everton, even if they were to win the PL and move to their new stadium. And PSG would love the prestige of being the only French team in such exalted company. So that by excluding their domestic competitors from the start, they would make the gap to those below them permanently unbridgeable. So that as was revealed last night, the so-called "Founder Members" would not be able to be relegated for the first 20 years of the competition, whilst the position of the other (invited) Members would be subject to "review". They claim that this review would be based on on-field competitivemess, but my guess is that it if the others weren't pulling in the TV audiences etc, then the Founders would find a way of replacing them, regardless of where they finished in the table.
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Trap junior
Robbie Keane YBIG Minister of Doom & Gloom Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Location: Irish Riviera Status: Offline Points: 39759 |
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What a load of wank. Heard Steve McClaren talking about how great it will be to have these big games every week. No it wont. The latter stages of the Champions League are the few times the big clubs play eac other and it makes it relatively rare and special event in a historic tournament. If they played every week or semi regularly it would become routine and boring. Also the tournament itself has no history. YAWN.
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Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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Very true. But I don't think we should overlook one key difference between England and the other "big" countries. In England, winning the League is usually valued by most supporters far more highly than succeeding in Europe. For example, when Ferguson took over at MU, his objective was to "knock Liverpool off their perch" by winning the League, not to emulate Busby by winning the European Cup (Fergie's record in Europe was quite poor). And when he achieved that, Liverpool fans weren't mollified by winning the Champions League etc, they were desperate to win the PL above all else. Even over at Man City, where the owners (and Pep) clearly prioritise the CL, their fans aren't marching on the Etihad each time they fail - they are reasonably satisfied if they win the PL. By contrast, the CL is everything to Real Madrid - win that and it doesn't matter if Atletico or Barca win La Liga. While games against the rest mean nothing, since they are pretty much guaranteed to win. Sevilla have taken it to another level, where they have all but given up on La Liga, to specialise on the EL and CL. Meanwhile, fans of Juve, Bayern and PSG are getting increasingly bored by winning their domestic league, season-in season-out.
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