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Comment by gizajob | Hacker News Reader

Please, in the name of all that is holy, lets keep football news off HN. If the breakaway league was proposing to run on bitcoin with players contracts based on Etherium and club ownership distributed as NFT smartbeans, then maybe it would be justified, but I come here to be free of the inanity of the world of football.

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KingLennon, Liverpool, UK

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I hate football - and I'm male and from the UK. However I think this is HN-worthy simply because it is a drama that feels "more" than simply a sports issue.

As others have said - non-tech news regularly appears on HN and people come here for the intellectual commenting.

I'm entirely against submissions along the lines of "Real Madrid win unprecedented 14th Champions League" but this proposal has some interesting facets that I think some HNers might find intellectually interesting.

There's a lot of broadly applicable questions here about the extent to which governments should interfere in the free market for the common good.

Strongly agree.

Maybe okay to discuss the Super Bowl or World Cup final or some similar major sports event. Maybe.

But instead, this particular submission appears to simply highlight cynical maneuvering and posturing by billionaires and corrupt special interests. On all sides.

Edit: someone flagged it. Good. I didn't, but I'm glad to see that others also feel strongly against this submission.

I have to disagree - the Patriots winning the Superbowl or Brazil winning the World Cup are not events that "gratify one's intellectual curiosity." A tussle between the Premier League and the leading football clubs in England is fascinating for a number of reasons.

People in this country love football and this proposal raises an important question - to what degree should governments intervene when the free market is working against the preferences of the electorate.

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