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When I were a lad Brighton had no chance of getting out of the third division let alone winning the top leagure or a cup. I'm happy with my lot :thumbsup:

This is more about using the potential to earn money as a lever to rig the game so they can 'earn' a bigger slice of the pie. But they are not going to succeed unless they break away since I am not sure that the owners of the clubs outside the 'big' six will clamour to, for example, lose their...

VAR? I love a bit of VAR, me. Don't they use it in the heralded Superbowl and NBA? ???

I draw the opposite conclusion from the same data. Back in the day (>38 years ago), with small crowds, shitty facilities, a recently ended salary cap, and no live TV coverage, it was much more a lottery, with scope for thuggery and bribery (Leeds) buying the small advantage that occasionally won...

Indeed. I think the other thing (CL revamp) needs a separate thread.....

:lolol: :thumbsup:

Of course. Care. But you seemed to be implying that we had take our eye off the ball by being dustracted by all this ESL stuff. I don't see it like that at all. Never mind.

So there was a reaction but we have moved on? I'm really confused now. Why was this issue raised on the ESL fiasco thread? I really can't get overexcited about the fact that if we finish 5th in the EPL we may not qualify for the CL if our recent record isn't quite as good as, say, Borussia...

Now I am outraged. To whom should I write?

I agree. It is a bit shit. But it is nowhere near the basis for outrage equivalent to that of the creation of the Pirate league. Which is why nobody has said anything much about it. I would suggest.

Mate, I am far too busy working to read NSC all day :whistle: :wink: I think you have the wrong end of the stick here. This is deffo not going to guarantee that Manure, Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milano, AC Milan, Juventus, Porto, Borussia Dortmund...

Yes, but they still have to have been good enough to have qualified 'a bit' that year. And it is two clubs out of, what? 36? I also note that apparently all the national associations voted for these changes unanimously. It wasn't just rammed through by Real Madrid and some smaller boys who they...

I have looked it up. Four extra places. The rest decided as before.The extra places decided by: Slot one: One of the additional places will go to the club ranked third in the championship of the association in fifth position in the UEFA national association ranking. Slot two: Another...

I haven't seen that. I will look it up!

What a weapons-grade plum. :ffsparr:

I enjoyed very much seeing certain club owners grovelling about this debacle. There are some rather sweeping views on football, as a piece, in the media and on NSC, though. It teminds me a bit about arguments that were had in the 70s about music (is the biggest seller the best artist? What of...

Very well put.