StillBluessinceHydeRoad
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City were the most reluctant members, the last in and, mercifully, the first out. The refusal of Bayern (who have managed to stitch up the Bundesliga nicely already) and PSG (who would not wish to put the 2022 world cup in jeopardy) was always a potentially fatal weakness and when City pulled out with Chelsea obviously to follow the whole scheme was dead. Fans - certainly not customers - can feel proud of the role they played to protect the game they love, but beware because there is still much that must be done.
It is important to ask if this was a victory for fans, who exactly was defeated. "The ESL" has vowed to continue working for a new competition to replace the CL so it appears the threat is still there, though we have no idea exactly who the ESL is now. Ceferin issued statements welcoming the former breakaway clubs back "to move on, rebuild the unity that the game enjoyed before and move forward together." This is drivel and shows that he is still living in the higher reaches of cloud cuckoo land. In no way was this a victory for UEFA. In fact, English fans with no reason at all to feel any generosity towards UEFA saved their bacon as an indirect consequence of defending the integrity of our weekend game. City, the club, were forced into the ESL because of UEFA's endless war against the club, because we had never been the valued member of UEFA Ceferin claimed in his message of thanks to the club. But he'd better learn now and quick. When City and Chelsea pulled out the Glazers, Henry and Kroenke followed the instincts of their species and deserted the sinking ship. But they are still there, the power across the water, and their mignons are still well placed to work within UEFA to mould European competition to their liking or replace it, whichever suits them better. And the bosom buddy, Agnelli, is still at the ECA to hatch his sordid plots. Ceferin had better see who the enemy is and rather than ban players and managers, whose public opposition to the ESL was positively heroic, from competitions he should weed out the influence of these American carpet baggers from anywhere near UEFA. Why has UEFA given in to them all along the line for at least 15 years? And that goes for the PL. We have seen that these three clubs are not motivated by any concern for football, but we have also seen that there is no need to give in to them. They can secede from the PL but have nowhere else to go. Gill, Woodward, Agnelli and all the rest should be shown the door. And that media star on the Mersey should be told that his computer hacking, money laundering days are over and if he doesn't like it he knows what he can do. And then UEFA and the PL can start considering the real needs of football and govern accordingly.
It is important to ask if this was a victory for fans, who exactly was defeated. "The ESL" has vowed to continue working for a new competition to replace the CL so it appears the threat is still there, though we have no idea exactly who the ESL is now. Ceferin issued statements welcoming the former breakaway clubs back "to move on, rebuild the unity that the game enjoyed before and move forward together." This is drivel and shows that he is still living in the higher reaches of cloud cuckoo land. In no way was this a victory for UEFA. In fact, English fans with no reason at all to feel any generosity towards UEFA saved their bacon as an indirect consequence of defending the integrity of our weekend game. City, the club, were forced into the ESL because of UEFA's endless war against the club, because we had never been the valued member of UEFA Ceferin claimed in his message of thanks to the club. But he'd better learn now and quick. When City and Chelsea pulled out the Glazers, Henry and Kroenke followed the instincts of their species and deserted the sinking ship. But they are still there, the power across the water, and their mignons are still well placed to work within UEFA to mould European competition to their liking or replace it, whichever suits them better. And the bosom buddy, Agnelli, is still at the ECA to hatch his sordid plots. Ceferin had better see who the enemy is and rather than ban players and managers, whose public opposition to the ESL was positively heroic, from competitions he should weed out the influence of these American carpet baggers from anywhere near UEFA. Why has UEFA given in to them all along the line for at least 15 years? And that goes for the PL. We have seen that these three clubs are not motivated by any concern for football, but we have also seen that there is no need to give in to them. They can secede from the PL but have nowhere else to go. Gill, Woodward, Agnelli and all the rest should be shown the door. And that media star on the Mersey should be told that his computer hacking, money laundering days are over and if he doesn't like it he knows what he can do. And then UEFA and the PL can start considering the real needs of football and govern accordingly.