Re: The Super League. Did we miss a trick? Archived Message
Posted by SnafflesBlue on December 1, 2023, 10:54 am, in reply to "Re: The Super League. Did we miss a trick?"
Thing is, fast forward 15-20 years and the pattern repeats. Two or three clubs will dominate. Then what happens? Do they go off and form another new league? I like the idea of jibbing off the ultra-wealthy, but it's nothing to do with footballing reasons, it's that these clubs are basically fronts for hedge funds and international capital. They might as well be called TEAM A, TEAM B etc. There's little connection to the areas they are founded, their fans come from all over the place. But the problem is it's just late-stage capitalism really, if something can be monetised it will be. Imagine the "big six"-less league suddenly becomes more popular and lucrative than the one they form. Then the hedge funds and international backers will just buy the other clubs instead and fund them. The "left behinds" are all playing the same game and would do the same thing if and when they could. It will only stop when the system that feeds this completely collapses. Between then and now there's a lot of pain and misery, and an incredibly small number of people laughing their nuts off. The natural end point is that there are 10 teams, all playing eachother, all games hosted in air-conditioned wankerdomes in Qatar. As long as people use football as a proxy for a personality, the penny won't drop. There'll still be furious arguments between Ron from Croydon and Umsitar from Bangladesh about millionaires who don't know or care they exist playing for teams named after places they've never even visited.
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