CB Fry

This is the reality of playing these European Super League teams.

That decision as good as a goal at this stage

Inevitable

They'll be buzzing.

My prediction is a ten nil defeat.

Can't believe our talisman has not been selected yet again.

You'd think there probably was already some kind of clause in the current agreement anyway, and the rules of the Premier League already had direction that clubs can only participate in specific competitions (ie League Cup, Europa League). So would been a legal tussle anyway. But I guess the point stands: Amazon and Sky won't be taking any more of this shit.

The climbdown is the punishment and that's that.

Let's hope he picks the messiah Jankewitz. Just for no other reason to stop the meltdown on here because he's not picked.

I think everyone is forgetting the "root and branch" review of football which will show its teeth with incredibly hard hitting measures like "a fan's parliament" or a "fan consultant" on every club board. Fig leaf bollocks like that. And squeaked out on a dull news day in six months time when everyone has forgotten the fuss. Meanwhile, the UAE, the yanks and and the Russians continue to own our national heritage, and plenty of dinlows on here will wish and wish and wish that it was us they owned.

Every single element was amateurish. Just one step up from a teenage tantrum. The only way they could make it work was to get one of the administrative bodies on board. The most obvious route maybe FIFA pitched against UEFA, or buy off the parent leagues (PL, La Liga) so they get behind it. But they didn't even attempt to get a sliver of respectability or viability so they just got shat on. And the second they said "....and it starts this August" I knew it was bullshit. None of the broadcasters or any potential corporate sponsors can act that quick for a project that big. Was a blundering fantasy with absolutely no grounding in reality whatsoever. Complete embarrassment for those involved.

And the kite is down.

Seems odd but welcome. Seriously lads, no one is forcing you to own English football clubs. Bugger off. A full scale round of deflation of wages and fees would be most welcome.

I would have liked it to have gone on long enough for Arteta to have got absolutely rinsed in a pre-match press conference....what makes you think you deserve to be in elite competition ahead of West Ham/Leicester/etc etc.

Should he have not tried to win the Europa League? What have Manchester United won since - I believe it is fuck all. How's that for a "measure of success"?

But there's been a goal in the 91st minute....... to Swindon. What a shame.

So to be a success at Manchester United he needed to have got them to have qualified for the Champions League the season before he got the job? Right you are then.

Will never not make me smile.

We're into Grandpa Simpson meme territory already then.

But surely the news reports wouldn't have led on it for 48 hours if it was just posturing? What a load of old bollocks.

But the Super League is still a gamble for them. It's not they are 100% definitely going to get the £xxxx gazillion they think they're all going to get.

I don't think Netflix has expressed any interest in sports rights anywhere. Amazon do seem to be getting stuck in though with Tennis and Rugby especially and their bits of Prem action. The new league could just go full on owned streaming, like Disney plus or the WWE where they just own their own content. But not sure if that model works quite as well without beer and betting companies.

Might we go back to the seventies/eighties, where the likes of Derby and Forest could win the league? Or Ipswich could challenge, or even little old Southampton. Ooooh wouldn't that be terrible for the younger generation of transfer-fee "show some ambition" money obsessed fan-boys. Whoever yesterday on here said they were embarrassed because Bournemouth had a higher record transfer fee than us, i imagine would be absolutely distraught.

Er, yes they do.

I hadn't heard that. But yeah, sounds about right. The big six will try and turn it into a battle of the Premier League against the Champions League and by extension the international competitions: too bloated, too many fixtures. There will be common ground there. But as you say, the main common ground is the likes of Palace and us are over a barrel.