Champions League restructuring

[Des Little]

Anyone able to share a link to Purslow’s interview earlier?

[Footy-Vill]

I've been off work today and had a lot of time to dwell on this. I actually think I feel worse than after relegation, worse than after it was plain Tony was skint. At least on those occasions we had the chance to rise again. If this goes through I don't know what becomes of us.

Hold on pal the premier league and champions league would still exist and remain. And certainly increases our chances.

I hope they sanctions the Premier 6 and suspend them

[Drummond]

I wonder if the Glasgow two would get invited. Big followings...

No French or German teams in the ESL, I'd rather invite Marseilles, Nice, Nancy, Reims, Frankfurt, Herther, Bayern than have 2 pub teams from Scotland thanks.

I meant to the ESL. I don't want that lot down here thank you.

[Footy-Vill]

Anyone able to share a link to Purslow’s interview earlier?

Yes BBC radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v88z
Navigate to
2hrs 10min and it's around here can hear intro and start of the interview

Best Wishes

[Toronto Villa]

Just on the Celtic Rangers thing

If the Premier League loses six of its biggest clubs why not restructure it into a British league

Don’t just take Celtic and Rangers and leave the little Scottish clubs to rot
But have a Scottish-North-South section in the lower leagues with promotion relegation etc

lololol!!!


no.

I don’t see why it’s a bad idea. Needs to be thought through. Belgium and the Netherlands are doing it.

[sickbeggar]

Just on the Celtic Rangers thing

If the Premier League loses six of its biggest clubs why not restructure it into a British league

Don’t just take Celtic and Rangers and leave the little Scottish clubs to rot
But have a Scottish-North-South section in the lower leagues with promotion relegation etc

lololol!!!

no.

I don’t see why it’s a bad idea. Needs to be thought through. Belgium and the Netherlands are doing it.

we'll have the smaller clubs. Just not the old firm. Belgium and Netherlands can have them

[BC Villain]

The only surprise is that it's taken this long for this to happen.  It's been coming since foreign owners started to buy up our clubs.  Football in this country is all about your heritage and tradition, but that means nothing to owners.  As much as there's a lot of goodwill towards NSWE, let's be honest they bought the club to make money.  They had no affinity to the club - they bought it because the previous regime's mismanagement of it had left the club practically worthless.

[Meanwood Villa]

I've been off work today and had a lot of time to dwell on this. I actually think I feel worse than after relegation, worse than after it was plain Tony was skint. At least on those occasions we had the chance to rise again. If this goes through I don't know what becomes of us.

Hold on pal the premier league and champions league would still exist and remain. And certainly increases our chances.

I hope they sanctions the Premier 6 and suspend them

Yes I hope that's what happens too but I fear the scab six will get their way. I honestly can't see a good scenario coming out of this. Maybe I'm being too negative.

[The Edge]

I really think this whole thing is a cunning pre-cursor to something else. A bargaining stance if you like. My guess is they will stay in their respective leagues which will all be reduced in number to allow them to fit in their grubby Super League. Greedy soulless bastards all of them.

[sickbeggar]

On the plus side i'd probably actually pay to see a CL final with just PSG in it.

[Monty]

On the plus side i'd probably actually pay to see a CL final with just PSG in it.

They'd still find a way to fuck it up.

[sickbeggar]

They could do a re-run of escape to victory. PSG vs a smattering of Hollywood actors and retired footballers.

[steamer]

Like several other outlets, the paper says the project is an attempt to reshape European football into an NBA-like tournament "in which every match is an event, and the sport is the means rather than the end: a huge match every night, players who are paid tens of millions per season, extortionate tickets and audiences of billions of people. It's the furthest thing from the European idea of football - and of sport
this is what they want
Cheerleaders, Commentators tossing themselves off. Millions of fans in India, Africa, Asia (outside of Europe) paying TV subscription fees.
Who gives a fuck about 50,000 at the ground buying a Bovril and a pie

[Damo70]

Are we now officially one of 'The Gang Of Fourteen'?

[CT]

They could do a re-run of escape to victory. PSG vs a smattering of Hollywood actors and retired footballers.

Anyone with Rocky Balboa in goal would have half a chance!