European Super League: Premier League ‘big six’ sign up to competition

theguardian.com

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The feeling around my spanish neighborhood, away from Madrid and Barcelona, is akin to this quote:

“We’ve got what we’ve deserved for not putting a stop to this any earlier. I’m done with the Premier League, I will cancel Sky Sports, BT Sport and go and watch (when we are allowed back) the local League Two team, Cheltenham Town, who need my money as a watching fan, and who have a chairman and board of directors who know they are temporary custodians of the club as they often state they are.”

“National government may have limited formal powers to stop any super league. But local government may have more, stronger and long forgotten powers. Football Clubs use the name of their towns and cities with the permission of the local council. If Liverpool Council decides it no longer wants Liverpool FC to bear its name, then they could withdraw that right. The club could still exist and play in the new ESL but call itself something else (Red Mersey?) but they could no longer call itself Liverpool. That would be an utterly extraordinary move but maybe even the threat would be something.”

Interesting idea

I'd argue Liverpool FC has made more for the notoriety of the city of Liverpool than anything else except the Beatles, and the same goes for the two Manchester clubs, so I'm not sure such a move would be really great for the city.

A former president of FC Barcelona once said (accidentally) in a speech: "The city that has the name of our club."

Well, as a young boy, I learned European geography through its football clubs so he's not completely wrong.

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