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European Not so Super League

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  1. Stockholm Tiger

    Stockholm Tiger Well-Known Member

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    There isn't a single trophy you get one to keep when you win it. They've given them a second one for the trophy room too.

    This is their 35th title!!!!
     
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  2. Mr Hatem

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    Ask Brazil
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    They kept it.
     
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  3. Evington

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    You've a spelling mistake in there.
     
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  4. Barchullona

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    Where?
     
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  5. Mr Hatem

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    red
     
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  6. Plum

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    Champions league final moved to Porto. 12000 Chels/ManC fans can go. Wonder what the poor old Portuguese did to deserve that!
     
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  7. Brucebones

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    I saw this morning that Portugal isn’t going to allow non essential travel from non EU countries, starting 17th May.
     
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  8. Mr Hatem

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    Good job Britain is in the EU... oh, wait a minute.
     
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  9. Muzz

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    You keep the Champions League one if you win it 5 times don't you?
     
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  10. originallambrettaman

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    The Portuguese government confirmed that 12,000 English fans would be allowed to attend, it was the reason the game was moved there.
     
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  11. Barchullona

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    You won't be able to go then, to the disappointment of...no one, actually,
     
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  12. Plum

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    :emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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  13. Mr Hatem

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    As I don't live in Britain and don't support either team, why would I go anyway?
     
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  14. Dr. Stanley

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    Viva la Menace - By Jack Peat

    Good morning. How to deal with the six English football clubs that secretly agreed to play in a European Super League has been a talking point among fans and pundits this week after the Premier League drew to a close. Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea all secured Champions League spots despite being among the founding members of a league that threatened to displace it. Leicester City marginally missed out, but had they made it in they would have done so on merit, not because they perceived themselves to have a God-given right to be there.

    According to Sky News reports the aforementioned clubs, plus Spurs and Arsenal (who finished seventh and eighth respectively), are braced for showdown talks with the Premier League over a punishment that could include forfeiting part of next season's broadcast income. It could see tens of millions of pounds wiped off their yearly fees and is said to be favoured over a points deduction. Sky Sports presenters Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp and Micah Richards are also among the signatories of an open letter calling for an independent football regulator and government legislation to block a European Super League from ever happening. The group say it is “time to act” and called for the public to sign a UK government petition.

    But as Jonathan Walters pointed out shortly after plans for the new league were announced, Sky should not be the "guardian angels of football”. When Neville decried clubs for being motivated “purely by greed” he might look at his own employer to see why. It was, after all, a certain Mr Murdoch who wooed over the ‘big five’ in 1992 with an “eye-watering” fee of £304 million for Premier League rights. In February 2015 the same broadcaster paid £4.2 billion for their share of the television pie which now includes heavyweights such as BT and Amazon, much to the delight of owners. Fans, on the other hand, are lumped with several expensive subscription packages as terrestrial TV struggles to get a look in.

    There is an irony, therefore, in making the instigators of football’s demise the arbiters of its recovery. As TLE Sport contributor Glen Wilson recently noted, “let’s not pretend these clubs, individuals, bodies and institutions were not complicit in facilitating football’s financial greed in the first place”. What football really needs to do is reconnect with its fanbase, its communities, and until it does the fans should try voting with their feet in leagues where that connection has never been lost, which namely exist outside of the professional pyramid.

    That is why from the start of the 2021/22 season The London Economic will be throwing its weight behind Peckham Town FC (AKA The Menice) of the Kent County League, where the players are "basically your mates" and the management is comprised solely of people from within the community. Boasting a former England international as their manager, the smallest stand in world football and their own dancehall track, the club offers a worthy sanctuary to those disillusioned with where the game is headed. And if that doesn't sell it, the bar stocks local beer and the players even come out to the theme tune to ‘Only Fools And Horses’.

    Viva la Menace!
     
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  15. DMD

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    European Super League: Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid criticise Uefa move to open proceedings


    Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid say they "will not accept any form of coercion or intolerable pressure" over their involvement in the proposed European Super League (ESL).

    Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against the three clubs.

    They were among 12 founding members of the failed breakaway league but the other clubs have renounced the project.

    In a joint statement, the trio said the opening of proceedings against them was "incomprehensible".



    They also criticised the "alarming attitude" of European football's governing body and say the ESL "has been promoted with the aim of improving the situation of European football".

    The clubs said they "wish to express their absolute rejection of the insistent coercion that Uefa has been maintaining towards three of the most relevant institutions in the history of football.

    "The opening of disciplinary proceedings by Uefa is incomprehensible and is a direct attack against the rule of law".

    They added that they "remain strong in their willingness to debate, respectfully and through dialogue, the urgent solutions that football currently needs".

    Uefa said proceedings had been opened due to "a potential violation of Uefa's legal framework".

    Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid have all been given financial sanctionsby Uefa for their involvement.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57261628
     
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  16. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Lawyers are gonna earn some dosh
     
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  17. originallambrettaman

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    The 2021 Premier League Annual Meeting begins today at the Ruding Park Hotel in Harrogate, where the Super League six will find out how many millions their failed breakaway is going to cost them.
     
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  18. originallambrettaman

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    The Premier League have fined the six clubs around £22m collectively for the European Super League debacle — with the money going to grassroots football & football community, not the other clubs. Further breakaway attempts will be met with £25m fine and 30-point deduction.
     
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  19. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Should be a points deduction for all of them this time
    Even a thirty point reduction wouldnt relegate them tho so actually just relegate to the bottom league
     
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  20. balkan tiger

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    I would say they should have been kicked out now, off you go, bye bye. But as this is the Premier League and they want to keep the top six on their own gravy train, just wishful thinking.
     
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