mr_nool wrote:I''m totally opposed to it. Can't really explain why, it just feels totally wrong.
Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:mr_nool wrote:I''m totally opposed to it. Can't really explain why, it just feels totally wrong.
i'm heavily against any nonsense like that for the simple reason that domestic league should be just that, domestic. How are away supporters supposed to be able to follow their team away week in week out?
ant london wrote:Teams from Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia and.....erm......Portugal??
Fidel Castro wrote:Shitest idea in history. Doesn't surprise me, as the cunt who dreamed this crock of shit up is the former president of the Dutch rags. And now he's the president of the Dutch FA, wonder why ajakkes get away with everything? Unishite & Ajax= one and the same. I'm pissed off just thinking about them
Kyle wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:mr_nool wrote:I''m totally opposed to it. Can't really explain why, it just feels totally wrong.
i'm heavily against any nonsense like that for the simple reason that domestic league should be just that, domestic. How are away supporters supposed to be able to follow their team away week in week out?
Your exactly right. It goes against everything that is good in sport. It makes football become a segregator instead of a unifier making the middle and lower classes not even being able to travel with the team...
Redna wrote:Without having the statistics right I think we are dealing with clubs in respective countrys been winning to much.
Porto,Sporting,Benfica :almost every title since the napoleon wars.
Ajax,PSV,Feyernoord : almost every title since the first world war.
Celtic,Rangers : almost every title since the stoneage.
Teams that are tired of winning domestic titles and seeking fresh grass.
It´s like a swingers party of football.
I'm returning the Manchester once again, this time with both kids and the wife. Fulham home and Scunthorpe home. Can't wait.
CTID!!
mr_nool wrote:Redna wrote:Without having the statistics right I think we are dealing with clubs in respective countrys been winning to much.
Porto,Sporting,Benfica :almost every title since the napoleon wars.
Ajax,PSV,Feyernoord : almost every title since the first world war.
Celtic,Rangers : almost every title since the stoneage.
Teams that are tired of winning domestic titles and seeking fresh grass.
It´s like a swingers party of football.
I'm returning the Manchester once again, this time with both kids and the wife. Fulham home and Scunthorpe home. Can't wait.
CTID!!
If that's the case, Rosenborg in Norway might want to join (even though they've just came through a couple of rough years),but in Sweden you don't have one dominant force. Denmark has 2-3 teams fighting for the title every year.
ronk wrote:For me one of the interesting things about this is looking at a North Atlantic League without Scotland. Scottish football can fix its issues without recourse to structural changes in the league.
Belgium, Holland, Luxenbourg, Denmark and possibly even Norway, Finland and Sweden (or those last 3 with Denmark going their own way).
Celtic and Rangers are problems because their fans like winning most weekends against Scottish opposition. It would be better to integrate Hearts, Aberdeen, Dundee etc.
Obviously, from a self interest point of view anything that competes better with the premier league would be bad for us.
The proper way to do it would be to get the football associations working closely with each other, the governments, the international managers, the fans, the clubs and a reasonable number of ex-pat players (not all, going for everyone is over-reaching) to make it work.
A lot of players would prefer to play at home if they could get the same standard of football and comparable pay (tax breaks might make up much of the difference, as in Ireland). It wouldn't work without a broad base of support, a few chairmen trying to milk fans won't get far. But if they got it right, Platini would love it. He'd buffalo it through FIFA and UEFA all the faster just to piss off the big English and Spanish clubs. The big Dutch and Belgian clubs would become a force in European football (not dominant, just strong enough to compete reasonably well) and the Champions League would be that bit more international (and hence popular in those areas). Spreading the wealth places other than England and Spain might close the gap just enough that the German and French leagues get a boost, especially the French.
The thing is, Celtic and Rangers don't really add anything to the table. They're too avaricious and there's no way to get them out of Scotland that's not very messy and going to lead to bitter fighting.
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