Super league to be knocked on the head for the so called "Big 6"

[ex_pat_magpie]

At last the fans are being listened to.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spor...6-4ffd67b80af0

[GBruno]

I'm really dead against this white paper and government involvement in football.

I am continually amazed that people continue to trust governments with anything.

Not to mention the massive implications of a government telling a privately owned company where it can and can't do business.

This only increases the chances of a super league being successful as it effectively neuters The Premier League as a commercial force. The Prem being the main competitor to a super league. The Premier League operating in a free market, free of government interference, could compete with a super league and keep it in check.

There is a good chance you will see The Super League take off and all the best players will be there, whilst government involvement reduces The Premier League to a socialised mess with wage caps, diversity quotas and the like.

The Premier League became the best footballing product in the world without the government.

Some lower league clubs are struggling? So what, they don't have a right to exist. No club does

A lot of this comes from a sense of entitlement from fans that think they deserve a say because they have followed a club and spent a bit of money on it. That's not the deal. You have your say by the way you spend your money, that's as far as it goes.

The whole country is in a mess due to poor government and an apathetic and ignorant general population. Football flourishes because these things are taken out of the equation.

You do not want politics in football, it's bad now, but it will get much worse after this. The women's game is already being held back by politics.

It seems I am in the minority on this topic, but I am not sure people see this for what it is. It's socialism and it ruins everything.

[GBruno]

https://www.skysports.com/football/n...akaway-leagues

[Kal]

I'm really dead against this white paper and government involvement in football.

I am continually amazed that people continue to trust governments with anything.

It seems I am in the minority on this topic, but I am not sure people see this for what it is. It's socialism and it ruins everything.

Indeed. People need to wake-up.

[Ragatino]

Indeed. People need to wake-up.

I'm personally conflicted.

I don't like government oversight as much as the next man. Business & the free market is a great leveller. However looking at the banking sector in 2008 when a handful of those at the top robbed the world and enslaved the west with a generation of debt. Where was the regulation then? Watered down to a point of inconsequence.

The whole regulation argument would be moot if the football world wasn't so murky! The backhander and bunk culture. European clubs like Juve getting done over and over. City's charges coming back again etc.

When the Premier League started, had things become an open book we wouldn't be where we are today.

What do I want to see from a regulator?

A clear mandate to ensure that clubs are being sporting & honouring the game.

That's it, nothing else, no PC sh!te at all.

[Kal]

I'm personally conflicted.

I don't like government oversight as much as the next man. Business & the free market is a great leveller. However looking at the banking sector in 2008 when a handful of those at the top robbed the world and enslaved the west with a generation of debt. Where was the regulation then? Watered down to a point of inconsequence. .

It was where government wanted regulation to be. And the current Prime Minister of the UK and Northern Ireland is Rishi Sunak ex Goldman Sachs.