they have been playing midweek games since the fifties and the advent of floodlights. tuesday and wednesday night kick offs were a regular fixture up and down the divisions well before sky tv.
im thinking of fast edited nonsense like that last star wars film - theres about 3 films crammed in there - all designed to overwhelm teh attention span of kids IMO. Im sure Disney have done research.
Not my observation, but I've seen people elsewhere raising the MUFC anti-Glazer/Love United Hate Glazer campaign as a point of comparison - the formation of FCUM was one major outcome of that, but there were a lot of other actions that went into it as well, and that feels like maybe a more direct equivalent?
Your point about TV series is a good counter-example, though. Better Call Saul was a massive hit, and its pace was glacial.
nothing has changed enough to change the length of a 90 minute football match thats for sure!
Many computer games are 10s of hours long, so not sure that is a good comparison.
in which said kid is actively engaged, not watching mourniho ordering his players to give away possession
Some of the podcast pundits are suggesting that Man City and Chelsea have cold feet. That is based on rumour but from a couple of different sources.
YOur post just reminded me about a talk I went to about 15 years ago about the protests against the Glazers. The only bit I can remember was a discussion of a strand along the lines of 'hate the club, love the team', which was ultimately about those who stayed as supporters, kept their season tickets but carried on protesting (things like the green and yellow scarves, but other stuff as well). It's worth noting those people lost, not just in the long term, but even by about 2007.
johnson's going to fuck this up too, isn't he
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i think they have overstepped. not sure they will come out of this with any gains.
Yeah, this. I'm at a point where I just need a little push and I can stop supporting the cunts (Man U). It won't solve anything if they do fuck off, another set of owners will step up to be the new big 6 or whatever. Prem league are cunts, sky are cunts, uefa are cunts and we probably can't drag football back out of their grip. But let's not stop hating them.
I don't actually think the clubs will be happy with just a bigger slice of the pie. JP Morgan and the American owners want a franchised exclusive league with guaranteed year on year profit. I don't think that's compatible with a revamped Champions League. It's shit or bust for the 12 now.
Sadly, this is the big concern for me.
i agree. i can't see any of the clubs recovering from this blow to their reputations for a long, long time. and that's without the plan going ahead.
leaving aside this superleague, i don't think you can have anything like that without eg ajax or bayern munich or psg and so on. and frankly we do have a superleague already, it's the champion's league where there's people who are always in it and bit players like danish or swiss teams to make up the numbers.
