Just checked on the score and saw this. It will have zero impact though. The Glazers aren’t interested in what the fans think. Just their profit. Typical of all the greedy six owners.
Hard to get back to that from where we are though? What would you do? Force foreign owners to hand over the property they own? Can’t see how that would ever be legal, even if it’s desirable.
Never say never. I think we need to look at ways we can move towards a model that takes some inspiration from the 50+1 model (which is a good idea, but obviously not quite good enough given Bayern's dreary dominance).
I think you are wrong. They won’t be able to go ahead with a closed ESL format. They misjudged how against it everyone was (in the U.K.). I think there is a real desire to see at least done part of club ownership in the hands of the fans. If they do manage it, then no one wants to see the closed system. Yes I know it’s how things are done in the US but here we have a completely different philosophy on it. I for one am grateful for that!
I agree, but note that I wrote a 'nearly closed' league. Now that they see people are totally against an explicitly closed league, they will look at ways they can bias the competition format without technically excluding anyone.
Well we last won it as a second division team (championship equivalent). But yes not too many non league sides make the final.
That’s bad. Happened to me once. Our finance guy was a bafoon. I’d only been there about 8 years!
Happened to me for two months on a deployment over a decade ago; very annoying.
Ominous, but one that is increasingly (and, I fear, inevitably) the way of the future, especially for large clubs cursed with the sort of foreign ownership that has scant regard for club history or traditions, let alone local sentiment or support.
Appalling.
Managers rarely see out their contracts - it's just a way to guarantee some compensation when the inevitable sacking comes.
Not sure. But I think he might be nearing the end of clubs in Europe that might try and see.
