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Post by raliverpool on Jul 28, 2011 18:36:30 GMT 1
Top European clubs threaten to break away from Fifa and Uefawww.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/27/european-clubs-breakaway-fifa-uefa• ECA teams unhappy about finances and international fixtures • Clubs may bypass governing bodies and run their own affairs Europe's biggest clubs could start breakaway league in 2014 and those players no longer available to play for FIFA national teams. European clubs will break away from Fifa and Uefa and create their own super league unless the world governing body urgently addresses their growing concerns over international fixtures and finances. It would be the most radical development in the history of football since the first World Cup in 1930, ripping up the established world order of the game and seizing power from Sepp Blatter, Fifa's president. www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/27/uefa-champions-league-european-revolt?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Would you support this move (if it took place) or do you prefer to support the current FIFA/UEFA international/club structure?
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Post by Panda on Jul 28, 2011 19:37:14 GMT 1
Top European clubs threaten to break away from Fifa and Uefawww.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/27/european-clubs-breakaway-fifa-uefa• ECA teams unhappy about finances and international fixtures • Clubs may bypass governing bodies and run their own affairs Europe's biggest clubs could start breakaway league in 2014 and those players no longer available to play for FIFA national teams. European clubs will break away from Fifa and Uefa and create their own super league unless the world governing body urgently addresses their growing concerns over international fixtures and finances. It would be the most radical development in the history of football since the first World Cup in 1930, ripping up the established world order of the game and seizing power from Sepp Blatter, Fifa's president. www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/27/uefa-champions-league-european-revolt?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Would you support this move (if it took place) or do you prefer to support the current FIFA/UEFA international/club structure? It's difficult to lend my support one way or the other. I have little time for the current FIFA regime but I also have little time for the "top clubs", who collectively, have helped suck the life and fun out of football. |
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Post by o on Jul 28, 2011 19:55:20 GMT 1
ditto what misterh said. They just want more money for less games. So if it did go ahead, the countries involved would be barred from tournos, or would have to field teams without the breakaway clubs players in?
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 28, 2011 23:06:27 GMT 1
I read the subject of this thread and thought "Here we go again".
As every season passes, I become more and more disenchanted by the absolute greed at the highest levels of football - players, directors, FIFA delegates, tv presenters... And consequently my enthusiasm for football lower down the leagues grows.
2010-11 was the first season ever when I attended more sports fixtures which weren't football than were. Cricket, rugby, ice hockey, motor racing, tennis, snooker and athletics all benefited from my diminishing passion for the sport I grew up loving.
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Post by o on Jul 29, 2011 7:50:20 GMT 1
I'd hope that more people do what you, misterh and myself are doing, but certain teams seem to sell out their matches whatever, and so will keep on paying the silly wages and getting the silly tv money...
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 29, 2011 10:46:59 GMT 1
Apart from raliverpool we all support smaller clubs.
I do think this will be a disaster for the game, and don't think it will excite the fans that much. The issue with "finances" is that the top clubs pay out ridiculous sums in transfer fees and wages whilst smaller clubs are going broke for just a fraction of this money.
We could do with some imprvement in the International scene, although I guess for those great players whose national team is not that great (e.g. Didier Drogba, who is from Ivory Coast) they will always want to put club over country, not only because that pays their wages but it is also where they get their recognition, and gives them a chance to win things.
Last season the league was actually far more competitive, with many of the lower teams taking points off the top teams, and nobody running away with large numbers of points. Even though Manchester United did end up winning it, you did not know on the day for certain that they would win easily without a contest (albeit that the season started with some spectacular scorelines).
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 29, 2011 19:47:34 GMT 1
Good. Throw them all out, ban them from playing in the domestic league, and ban all the players from international football. And ban any players who play AGAINST them in any matches.
Within 10 years it will wither. Most of those clubs have a majority support from people who are only interested in winning. Used to see a lot of Milan or Ajax shirts on people. Now they're replaced by Chelsea. How long will teams like Arsenal have an international following after a few mid-table years behind Real, Barca, Man U, Chelsea, Man C and Inter?
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Post by suedehead on Jul 29, 2011 20:01:37 GMT 1
It will only happen if they know that the likes of Sky will pay for the broadcasting rights. Even then it would collapse if supporters stopped paying their prescriptions. After all, that's where so much of the money comes from.
If all supporters of clubs other than the top few cancelled their Sky subscriptions that would take a lot of money out of the game and we might see a little bit of sense restored.
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