European Super League

[Niall_Quinn]

It really doesn't matter if this is just a threat designed to force UEFA and the PL into throwing even more cash at the "big" clubs, or if it's a determined proposal that will see the dark of day. These (even greedier than UEFA and the PL, if you can even envisage such greed) "big" clubs win no matter. And the "small" clubs (like Leicester) get fucked.

It would be better to throw these clubs out, take the pain, see the money drain out of the domestic game and then build from scratch. Local players, local fans, cheap tickets, sane wages, part-time players even, and maybe football could be reborn. The prawn sandwich day-trippers were never fans anyway. They'll always chase the loudest, brightest hype. So you'll get genuine fans back into stadiums (if Doris allows it) and kids who actually want to play football rather than model women's clothes and knock about with slags. And then we can do it all again but at least we'd get a few decades of decent sport.

[GP]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...eague-23940779

Says it all, I'm afraid.

[Coney]

Last year I was going to Enfield Town a bit. Might do that more regularly. The quality isn't high but it's good fun and it's more like the football I remember.

Goonersweb FC

I'm thinking on those lines. Having moved from London to the Cotswolds, my local team here is a certain Forest Green Rovers, so I should start watching them. The Arsenal I started supporting almost 50 years ago has gone. The idea that we would have a permanent right to be in the pretend European top flight even if we were even more crap than we have been is just plain wrong and there is no way I can stand up and try and justify anything like that.

So I am going to cancel my red membership and I think that is finally it for me. Some great memories over the years (along with pain for long periods!) but it is now just history. I'll keep my important mementos - the Arsenal shirt with Radford 9 on the back that John Radford signed for me being the most important.

I guess this kind of thing was coming with all the money flying around. While we can blame the Yank for his part in this, I think it all stems from the greed of football for the Sky money, creating the PL and changing the balance of football money to the top 'haves'.

Ah well. Arsenal FC. RIP.

[Letters]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...eague-23940779

Says it all, I'm afraid.

[Mac76]

Ah well, I hate football games anyway - much prefer shooting things

[Mac76]

I’d be interested to see what the players think because being told you can no longer compete for the CL or even play at a World Cup, and instead have to play for some made up trophy, can’t really sit will with them on a sporting level.

Then again their wages would probably be doubled as a sweetener anyway.

It’s all fucked, greed has always existed but you could argue it was proportionate but now this is a total disregard for everything football has ever been.

yeah whatever the madcap schemes of the past and the exploitation of fans they've never shown such blatant greed and disregard before to the point where a few clubs are kicking against all the other football setup like this

this really does feel like the end

[Letters]

The lack of relegation is a real giveaway.
Run off to where the money is and pull up the drawbridge.
I see they’re offering a few crumbs to “the rest” with some qualifying places each year.
How magnanimous.

[Gooner23]

Genuinely meant what I said in the other thread about setting up a phoenix club.

I've been following AFC Wimbledon for a few years now, they represent everything I love about football whilst Arsenal have been slowly morphing into everything I despise about it.

If this goes ahead, I think we'd be seeing a lot of similar clubs starting at the lowest level and working their way up, and if I can, I like the idea of being involved in some way.

Its been done already. Dial Square FC, they play in my local league in... Surrey

[Letters]

Saw something good on FB on one of the Arsenal groups.
Someone asked if people would stop supporting Arsenal if this thing goes ahead.
Someone replied that they wouldn’t stop supporting Arsenal, but the Arsenal they support would no longer exist. Pretty much how I feel about Arsenal and top level football in general.

[Letters]