Baird of the land

Glazer's sacrificial goat

At the very least govt should go ahead with the german ownership model. It'll be disgusting if they are allowed away with no repercussions.

The potential bounce affect of playing against superleaguers will probably be gone by tomorrow unfortunately as the snakes are trying to sneak away.

Disappointing to see Villa CEO clearly has zero gumption "What we need to find is a way to enable these two tournaments to thrive and they won’t be better off without those clubs," said Purslow.

I'll probably watch it, hoping we'll give the superleaguers a bloody nose like Leeds did last night. Won't be as much fun watching Mason squirm under questioning as it was watching Klopp do so.

There's always that old joke ad, about multi-ball

The Top six being allowed to use the Premier League as a B league for their reserves would kill the Premier League for me.

My initial thought was that it was posturing. Seems to have gone beyond that though and can the genie be put back in the bottle. I hope the authorities don’t end up groveling to these clubs and instead the clubs are heavily punished and made to either come crawling back or leave for good.

Seems to have been converted to a wingback at Newcastle

Nice straight talking from Milner "I don't like it and hopefully it doesn't happen. I can imagine what has been said about it and I probably agree with a lot of it."

Maybe all the other 14 would have been equally greedy if they'd been invited, we'll never know. Clearly some european clubs have turned it down so far. I liked seeing the leeds t-shirts statement, hopefully rest of the clubs will follow suit. If we have to sit through the meaningless taking a knee rite every game, we should surely at the equally willing to be protesting this as a united front.

Liked seeing the first of the breakaway clubs dropping points tonight.

I can't say i've ever wanted Saints to be akin to the entity that used to be Man City football club. I've longed for wage caps to come in to deal with the imbalance. I hope they don't get bought off to come back to the fold to carry on widening the chasm and government and governing bodies use this line in the sand to cut off the snake heads.

Good to hear that Leeds players are wearing anti superleague t-shirts. Hopefully Saints follow suit.

Yeah i'd treat it similarly to how cricket used to treat touring South Africa during Apartheid.

Man U's response is just comical, trying to claim them hoovering up a massively greater proportion of money in their closed shop is somehow a good thing for the wider game.

Think some players very much would care, though there would be others happy to take the money.

Was thinking of that Keegan quote myself today. I'd definitely love it if clubs stood up to the big six. There would be a lot of short-term pain but then they would adapt to the altered landscape, whereas imo the big six would suffer long term pain from being excluded from everything. Best thing i heard was that Council's apparently have power to revoke use of city names, so Liverpool might have to rebrand themselves as Mersey Reds

Would nice if some/all of Saints, Villa, Brighton & Leeds get together to work out some sort of combined protest for each of this week's games against big four.

Curious who the 3 gutless teams are who've indicated they want to join but just not yet.

Hopefully Premier league have guts to kick out those 6 clubs. International football could be interesting with players banned from competing, which would likely affect bigger countries more.

Hopefully the authorities follow through with their threats to clubs that have signed on to this.

Very depressing insipid way to go out.

Glad to see Djenepo start. Disappointed he's not made other changes.

What are the odds that we end up finishing behind the trash that is Newcastle