Just read an article by Jonathan Liew of the Guardian advocating swingeing penalties on the breakaway clubs. As usual, no recognition of the damage this does to supporters who were more instrumental in bringing about the demise of the SL than any other group. Anyway, that's beside the point which is the sheer hypocrisy of Liew and others in the media who, because of the status of the PL in world football, make a nice living. Maybe Liew should try a spell in sports journalism in Norway or Finland with concomitant salary. But the sickening hypocrisy is that Liew and his fellow travellers would have had no hesitation in covering the affairs and matches of the SL had it come into being; no compunction about the travel (and expenses) to Spain and Italy; no saying to the Editor "sorry, my moral compass points me away from providing publicity and thus helping to line yet further the pockets of people like Perez". No, their cop-out would be "we are journalists, we have to go where the news is". Yeah, right.
I'm not suggesting that the owners shouldn't be sanctioned in some way but it has to be in such a way as to avoid penalising the supporters. In a war, if an illegally occupied city is liberated you don't punish the liberators.
Try again Liew and use your undoubted intelligence to come up with something that punishes owners without delivering forty lashes on the supporters. If you can't then spare us the hypocrisy.
I'm not suggesting that the owners shouldn't be sanctioned in some way but it has to be in such a way as to avoid penalising the supporters. In a war, if an illegally occupied city is liberated you don't punish the liberators.
Try again Liew and use your undoubted intelligence to come up with something that punishes owners without delivering forty lashes on the supporters. If you can't then spare us the hypocrisy.
