BettingBlade
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It’s not really a nail in the coffin for the Premier League in the sense that this idea is about making a shit tonne of money and attempting to grow it exponentially.
It is though, getting a hammer out, closing the coffin and preparing the nails for the rest of English football. Whats essentially happened over the last 5 years or so is that the gap between the Premier League has grown more than it probably had in the previous 20. It’s now filled with more billionaires than ever and the American ones particularly feel constrained by the current format of the traditional English season.
The league as a whole feels less competitive than ever. The idea that clubs in danger of falling foul of PSR rules could overwhelmingly vote to end points deductions should be a massive red flag to the rest of English football and clearly outlines the contempt for which the elites hold the rest of the footballing pyramid in. It’s a league defined purely by money and it’s starting to outgrow the league structure in which it sits.
From a business point of view it feels like the natural step for the Premier League is to break away to form some kind of super duper NFL type thing. Whatever that may be, games abroad are just the first step on that road. What began as a rebranding of the top division has turned into a massive, corporate bubble that has become far bigger than the top division is designed to be.
That said, I dont actually understand why people thing its such a great watch. The only decent games are between the top 6 but the vast majority are elite v also rans or also rans v also rans. Fair play if thats your bag but I find it fucking boring and wank.
The thing that’s got me most fed up is that the majority of English football is a complete after thought. The clubs, the ex-player pundits, the media, the fans of the top clubs dont give a single solitary fuck about the integrity of competition. They’re all on the fucking gravy train so when Neville and Carragher and all the other cunts want to rouse fans to save their precious Premier League when there’s talk of another European Super League, I hope they are roundly met with the sincerest of fuck offs.
It’s so far detatched from reality that it actually doesn’t feel like football. Everything is geared towards fans that don’t go to matches. They would much rather cater to the armchair fan than the average match going fan, and that fucking stinks quite frankly.
I don’t subscribe to this idea that there is some specific agenda against us but I think it’s quite clear there is pressure to protect the business model. Any business has to protect it’s most valuable assets to be successful, and for the Premier League, that means keeping the elite clubs elite. They’ve done this by making it so difficult for newly-promoted sides to compete unless they spend millions upon millions to even attempt to stay in the division.
The job was fucked for the rest of us once corporate interests became the priority over integrity of competition.
It is though, getting a hammer out, closing the coffin and preparing the nails for the rest of English football. Whats essentially happened over the last 5 years or so is that the gap between the Premier League has grown more than it probably had in the previous 20. It’s now filled with more billionaires than ever and the American ones particularly feel constrained by the current format of the traditional English season.
The league as a whole feels less competitive than ever. The idea that clubs in danger of falling foul of PSR rules could overwhelmingly vote to end points deductions should be a massive red flag to the rest of English football and clearly outlines the contempt for which the elites hold the rest of the footballing pyramid in. It’s a league defined purely by money and it’s starting to outgrow the league structure in which it sits.
From a business point of view it feels like the natural step for the Premier League is to break away to form some kind of super duper NFL type thing. Whatever that may be, games abroad are just the first step on that road. What began as a rebranding of the top division has turned into a massive, corporate bubble that has become far bigger than the top division is designed to be.
That said, I dont actually understand why people thing its such a great watch. The only decent games are between the top 6 but the vast majority are elite v also rans or also rans v also rans. Fair play if thats your bag but I find it fucking boring and wank.
The thing that’s got me most fed up is that the majority of English football is a complete after thought. The clubs, the ex-player pundits, the media, the fans of the top clubs dont give a single solitary fuck about the integrity of competition. They’re all on the fucking gravy train so when Neville and Carragher and all the other cunts want to rouse fans to save their precious Premier League when there’s talk of another European Super League, I hope they are roundly met with the sincerest of fuck offs.
It’s so far detatched from reality that it actually doesn’t feel like football. Everything is geared towards fans that don’t go to matches. They would much rather cater to the armchair fan than the average match going fan, and that fucking stinks quite frankly.
I don’t subscribe to this idea that there is some specific agenda against us but I think it’s quite clear there is pressure to protect the business model. Any business has to protect it’s most valuable assets to be successful, and for the Premier League, that means keeping the elite clubs elite. They’ve done this by making it so difficult for newly-promoted sides to compete unless they spend millions upon millions to even attempt to stay in the division.
The job was fucked for the rest of us once corporate interests became the priority over integrity of competition.