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[Uwe`s Grandad]

5 teams from across Europe could still get into the ESL. What's the difference?

Their league and domestic cups are shit compared to ours

 

[M18CTID]

5 teams from across Europe could still get into the ESL. What's the difference?

I take it this is a joke question

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

bollocks

We'll still face the same punishments as the other 6. Someone at Man City colluded with executives at 11 other clubs and subverted their own fanbase and staff to try and rip the fabric out of the structures of football as it's stood for 100's of years.

I don't care what rule they have to invent to punish them but they should all be punished, extremely and swiftly. There is absolutely no excuse.

Jesus - the melodrama from some on here is off the scale!

Which morally upstanding custodians of the game do you suggest should be punishing us exactly?

People do realise football has been governed by business interests rather than community good pretty much since the off, don’t they? And the pace of that commercialisation has only been accelerated beyond recognition since 1992 and the creation of the PL - which last ripped out the fabric of football as it had stood for 100s of years just 29 years ago.

Anyone who still believes club owners view their fans as anything other than customers to be commercially exploited is living in some sort of alternative fantasy version of reality, where clubs are some sort of cooperative or ‘business for good’, bound to consult its members and consider their opinions before making decisions.

That rose tinted version of the game died a long time ago - if it ever existed in reality.

Look at the people behind the FA, the PL and UEFA and ask yourself if any of these represents ‘the historic fabric of football’ - are these the cretins we should somehow be clamouring your protect?

UEFA, with Gill, Tebas, Rummenigge, Watzke and al-Khelaifi on their side - who existentially hate competition and are solidly driven by protecting their own interests. Who have spent the last decade trying to cripple our club to serve the interests of a handful of clubs with no interest in the integrity of the game.

Or the PL, with their United and Liverpool appointed yes-man running the show, and clubs like Leicester, Wolves, Burnley, etc who signed a letter only last season to try and get us thrown out of elite competition for good.

Fuck them all - if they had been shafted, I’d have lost absolutely zero sleep over their collective fates. Bunch of fucking self serving shysters deserve everything they get.

Do I lament the loss of football’s soul? Absolutely.

Do I think it exists anywhere amongst the entities we were considering fucking over through the ESL? Not a chance.

I hated the ESL - but not because I felt there was somehow a ‘do the right thing’ option lurking in the corrupted hearts of the PL or UEFA. It was just further evidence of the moral bankruptcy of the game.

Punishing us would be a monumental act of hypocrisy - they can get fucked with their faux outrage and entitlement, when they’d all jump at the same thing given half the chance.

 

[Bandofblues]

Here's a terrifying thought. Maybe the rags have taken us over, they just haven't released the news yet!

Our owners missing a trick, after the collapse of the ESL we should be buying out Utd and burning their club down....

 

[Steve68]

Sky s reporting that one Chief Executive spent a day trying to speak to the club owner because this was as big a shock to him as it was to the rest of us.

I wonder who that was?

 

[NorCalBlue]

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[Centurions]

bollocks

We'll still face the same punishments as the other 6. Someone at Man City colluded with executives at 11 other clubs and subverted their own fanbase and staff to try and rip the fabric out of the structures of football as it's stood for 100's of years.

I don't care what rule they have to invent to punish them but they should all be punished, extremely and swiftly. There is absolutely no excuse.

So you want them (whoever they are) to invent rules retrospectively to punish them (by them I presume you mean us too)? There's some weird ideas on here right now.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Their league and domestic cups are shit compared to ours

Yep
An amateur team just got into the French cup semi final. Not that long ago another amateur team, Calais, got to the final.

 

[blueparrot]

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bollocks

We'll still face the same punishments as the other 6. Someone at Man City colluded with executives at 11 other clubs and subverted their own fanbase and staff to try and rip the fabric out of the structures of football as it's stood for 100's of years.

I don't care what rule they have to invent to punish them but they should all be punished, extremely and swiftly. There is absolutely no excuse.

We will get the same punishments as the other, as in none at all, because there is nobody want or able to dish out any punishment, just some fans seem to need some self flagellation. Go ahead but leave the rest of us out thanks.

 

[Dribble]

Their league and domestic cups are shit compared to ours

They've not stated from which nations would make up the other 5 spots, but I'd hazard a guess it would be from Germany, England, Spain, France or Italy. If not, from Holland, Portugal, Belgium plus two other nations, or a mixture. These were the details not released.