New runners up league

Tipp blue · March 30, 2021

chrismpw said:
Already started that. I look out for everton results but haven't the slightest interest in other prem (division 1) teams. Just no interest any more, same as if I were watching a chess game and was told who was going to win it before the first pawn was touched.

Same, there was a time when I had multiple fantasy football teams on the go, I'd read reports from every game, watch mach of the day every Saturday regardless of Everton being on or not,
I just watch Everton now, if we aren't on TV I'll stream it, no fantasy football, haven't watched MOTD in years.

Tubey · March 30, 2021

brieverton said:
From that article

"The wild cards will be reserved for clubs with the highest Uefa co-efficient - points used to rank clubs based on past European success - who have not qualified for the competition through their league position.

If the format was being used now, based on the current table it would mean Liverpool would gain a Champions League spot despite being seventh in the Premier League"

No further questions, M'lord.

That would kill stone dead my interest in football.

Bohemian Toffee · March 30, 2021

Tubey said:
That would kill stone dead my interest in football.

All football or just that competition?

Tubey · March 30, 2021

Bohemian Toffee said:
All football or just that competition?

All. Ultimate aim is to win highest prize available on merit. If that's corrupted by regulated doping then no point in persisting as a supporter.

If this was happening as a breakaway league, fine, bye bye to them, as the Premier League would then become the summit, or whatever European competition persisted, and the breakaway league would have zero relevance.

We've all coped with money buying titles in the Premier League era. That's fine. But this is different - a self preserving cabal at the top of football.

summerisle · April 1, 2021

In a large nutshell.

Jamo Martinez · April 1, 2021

zukai12_ said:
Basically gives us a 3 year window to become good and qualify for CL, need Usmanov to splash the Cash ASAP

Total BS that we could finish, say 4th, but the spot goes to Arsenal or Man U based on their CL performances from ages ago

I think the 2 wild card places are for all Europe

Jamo Martinez · April 1, 2021

Tipp blue said:
It's not just football, pretty much every sport has been consumed by greed.

I wish it was only sport.

marmor · April 2, 2021

I said before in another thread about changes to the premier league big picture, that if they (LFC @ MUFC) want this automatic entry and control over the league then the other teams in the league should refuse to play them.
Tha points we, and other non ‘wildcard’ teams could take from them to gain a league placing advantage is, well....... pointless!
Let them have their automatic 3 points and play each other only or in Europe only.

The other 14-18 clubs in the league would all have to sign up to it however.

it’s a pathetic idea. Takes away all hope and achievement from the non-preferred clubs.

chrismpw · April 2, 2021

marmor said:
I said before in another thread about changes to the premier league big picture, that if they (LFC @ MUFC) want this automatic entry and control over the league then the other teams in the league should refuse to play them.
Tha points we, and other non ‘wildcard’ teams could take from them to gain a league placing advantage is, well....... pointless!
Let them have their automatic 3 points and play each other only or in Europe only.

The other 14-18 clubs in the league would all have to sign up to it however.

it’s a pathetic idea. Takes away all hope and achievement from the non-preferred clubs.

Whats needed is a social media event yo organise fans to just not turn up yo any match where the sky darlings play (once we're allowed back). Imagine a packed stadium for a game everton v west brom one week, and a handful of away rs fans and tumbleweed at Southampton.

KaiserEFC · April 2, 2021

Stopped reading at “wildcards” my interest in football has already diminished to the point where anything slightly confusing just gets a no from me.

Alan Whittle · April 2, 2021

Waiting for it to be loudly condemned by those guardians of football morality “Spirit of Shankly.”

Waiting....

artetas_biggest_fan · April 4, 2021

royston1878 said:
Just read on Twitter that the RS, United and the 2 Spanish teams are not happy with the commercial deals for this new tournament, and there is a chance this won't even go ahead now, going to be a new round of Negotiations with Uefa and ECA.

They will be a Super League in the next 5-10 years with clubs having individual tv contracts which is what the American owners want the most.

Ultimately it’s they (top clubs) that hold the power, not the governing bodies. The G14 was merely a warning to UEFA.

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