andy97

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Greedy premier League teams will lose all their fans over cash

IdonthaveaScooby

Football doesn’t need real attendee fans any more as far as I can make out



i Can see why it’s popular sport cos all you need is a football

IdonthaveaScooby

Anyway , no problem at all - money breeds money right

BMWhere?

I find it quite funny that football has decided to join the EU and all the gammons are up in arms about it! That's not the Brexit we voted for

WRXrowdy

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Not really, even at grass roots level. I ended up managing my youngest sons football team for five years (I don’t even really like football buts that’s another story) and even at that level it takes thousands of pounds a year.
Pitch hire, payment of match officials, payment to enroll in a league, payment and upkeep of grounds maintenance equipment, line marking fluid, goals, nets, flags etc, training equipment, hire of training facilities in the darker months and so on.

To put it into some context, I do a lot of work for my old clubs treasurers daughter and son in law. He helped with a job I was doing there a few months ago and said it is a bit embarrassing that the clubs bank balance was over 30k as they were not spending the cash due to games not happening through COVID.

IdonthaveaScooby

Was bein faceitous - 'football' has been lost on me since way before premier league - its just about advertising on tv

^Qwerty^

It looks very much like what happened in F1 a few years ago, net result being the teams got more say in how things were run/done. It's going to be a bumpy ride and a great game of poker to watch from the side lines.

ted bass

It does make me laugh when the younger generation think football never existed before the Premium League, same as 500GP before is was rebranded Moto GP and Formula 1 before it was F1, like been said all about money these days.

ALi-B

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Like a lot of sports monetised in every way possible. Remember when sky encrypted their sports channel back in 1990?

In the end of the day, if the fans boycotted it all they'd all fail. But someone always gives in and forks out. Numpties.

Jonnys3

Exactly. All those fans from the 6 "English" clubs complaining now, but I bet they will be the same fans in the grounds watching the games come matchday.

BMWhere?

I'm pretty sure there were similar complaints when they created the Premiere League.

Quite frankly breaking away from the corrupt FIFA/UEFA/FA/EPL can surely only be a good thing! No wonder they are complaining so much, they stand too lose a fortune.

As long as the gate/season ticket prices are kept the same, the fans will keep coming! The only real hit for fans is extra cost of travelling to away games in other countries.

It'll also make the existing leagues more interesting as it wont be the same handful of clubs winning all the time.

andy97

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All UK clubs withdraw from Europe superleague, fans have won


Its expected several other clubs will announce withdrawl today.

It's collapsed, even before it got going

ALi-B

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I wonder who had the TV rights ? 🤔

BMWhere?

I wonder how much the clubs have been paid to not break away?

The Joshua Tree

You ask the players if they like playing in empty stadiums, they've all hated playing in empty stadiums since lockdown, the fans make the atmosphere and create the intensity, without fans it feels like a boring kick about behind closed doors.