I, for one, would walk away from football completely if the scenario you're proposing ever came to pass. What point is there to supporting your club if what sustains every fan's passion - the ongoing potential to change your history of domestic endeavour - is swept away with the stroke of a pen? Do we really want to replace all that with a superficial so-called super league for the elite clubs of world football in which only the extremely well off could afford to travel to away games on a regular basis? If ordinary match attending fans already feel alienated by rocketing ticket prices, imagine what clubs like ours will be charging in the event we're playing the likes of Real, Barca and Bayern repeatedly! Equally, if an ESL were to proceed without City, where's the incentive for fans to watch a PL without the prospect of putting the red shirt teams and Spurs to the sword? Surely, the ultimate illustration of such folly is a season without a derby match, something the vast majority of fans would never countenance.