Will you attend City games if we join a European Super League?

Would you attend?

  • Yes

    Votes: 99 10.5%

  • No

    Votes: 706 75.2%

  • Depends on what the plans are

    Votes: 149 15.9%
  • Total voters
    939
spiny said:
Short sighted.

The money is in sponsorship and tv where you get commercial breaks and advertising.
However, the product is actually dependant on the fans.

I cannot see the attraction in playing teams around Europe and possibly elsewhere.
Without competition it becomes a circus.
It is not the USA where franchises are the norm and WWE is considered a sport.
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But for , say, a new city from delhi, he will think its totally brilliant.
it needs the fans, but not the match goers, we havent mattered for year, but the tv fan will tune in and be in heaven watching a super league
 
What we’ve hated for 10 years were about to do, they’ve seen what can happen if money comes to a club like City and Chelsea taking money out of their pockets and it’s a matter of time before it happens again, look at the money coming into Everton Wolves Leicester all the talk of Newcastle, we’re just on that ladder now and pulling up behind us so others can’t compete
Who the fuck are they to just come and change our National game, it’s our fuckin game
 
Suddenly the champions league is irrelevant isn’t it, who cares if we win it now because after this season it doesn’t matter, never liked it anyway and now couldn’t give a toss. I remember in the mid 80s when the super league was muted then, this morphed into the premier league not long after, the difference is at least it’s domestic, this will be like the Harlem Globtrotters, games will be played in the Far East midweek filled with happy clappers buying shit loads of merchandise.
Id love to know what the foreign teams fans think of all this.
 
Stopped going to the Champions League games after that CSKA game at home when we had two players sent off and the referee clearly chose to book a CSKA player that hadn't been book and wasn't involved in what happened to get booked. To be honest I really haven't missed not being there, it's actually shocked me a little. This league there isn't a chance I will attend even if they let season ticket holders in for free.
 
spiny said:
Short sighted.

The money is in sponsorship and tv where you get commercial breaks and advertising.
However, the product is actually dependant on the fans.

I cannot see the attraction in playing teams around Europe and possibly elsewhere.
Without competition it becomes a circus.
It is not the USA where franchises are the norm and WWE is considered a sport.
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You are right that without competition it becomes a circus but I have been pondering how far millions of people who must technically be described as fans actually grasp that point.

What's popped back into my mind is my incredibly annoying experience in a little town in the west of Ireland back in 2014, when I had dashed over to visit a close relative who had suffered a brain aneurysm and so found myself forced to watch City's penultimate league match in that locality.
I initially opted for a pub very close to my hotel that had numerous TV screens and served a terrific pint of Beamish for a very reasonable price - mainly because my hotel had just one main bar but was featuring a show band playing throughout the match as it was being shown on a huge screen at the other end of the same long bar, meaning I would have no chance of hearing commentary.
I just about lasted through the first half in my chosen pub because it was entirely infested with Man Utd "fans" spouting endless anti-City rubbish, who clearly from their comments had not even the most basic grasp of team tactics and concluded that half by agreeing amongst themselves that the City team already way ahead in League goals scored, and about to set a goalscoring record for any EPL season, were useless in front of goal, unlike their beloved United.
What could I do? I went back to my hotel and subjected myself to potential long term hearing damage in order to watch the second half, without benefit of any audible commentary but without having to put up with the pig-ignorant comments of the cretins in the pub. Now, I am sure they weren't cretins about every aspect of life (and I am not being anti-Irish, being of Irish parentage myself) but the point is this: they were representative of millions - and I mean millions - of other "fans" of big-name clubs who have no direct connection of any description with "their" club, and often no football heritage, which means in turn no clue as to what constitutes good play or astute tactics. Such people, such millions of people, are the target audience for the ESL. So it does I believe have the potential to "succeed" if only in terms of attracting substantial audiences.
 
mjkismgs said:
You are right that without competition it becomes a circus but I have been pondering how far millions of people who must technically be described as fans actually grasp that point.

What's popped back into my mind is my incredibly annoying experience in a little town in the west of Ireland back in 2014, when I had dashed over to visit a close relative who had suffered a brain aneurysm and so found myself forced to watch City's penultimate league match in that locality.
I initially opted for a pub very close to my hotel that had numerous TV screens and served a terrific pint of Beamish for a very reasonable price - mainly because my hotel had just one main bar but was featuring a show band playing throughout the match as it was being shown on a huge screen at the other end of the same long bar, meaning I would have no chance of hearing commentary.
I just about lasted through the first half in my chosen pub because it was entirely infested with Man Utd "fans" spouting endless anti-City rubbish, who clearly from their comments had not even the most basic grasp of team tactics and concluded that half by agreeing amongst themselves that the City team already way ahead in League goals scored, and about to set a goalscoring record for any EPL season, were useless in front of goal, unlike their beloved United.
What could I do? I went back to my hotel and subjected myself to potential long term hearing damage in order to watch the second half, without benefit of any audible commentary but without having to put up with the pig-ignorant comments of the cretins in the pub. Now, I am sure they weren't cretins about every aspect of life (and I am not being anti-Irish, being of Irish parentage myself) but the point is this: they were representative of millions - and I mean millions - of other "fans" of big-name clubs who have no direct connection of any description with "their" club, and often no football heritage, which means in turn no clue as to what constitutes good play or astute tactics. Such people, such millions of people, are the target audience for the ESL. So it does I believe have the potential to "succeed" if only in terms of attracting substantial audiences.
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Hence why I watch City games in the house and never in the pub.
 
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