Originally Posted by
Newish Pie
What the Snake Six did has everything to do with the Premier League. Setting up breakaway "superleagues" was and is against the premier league's rules. They weren't just trying to have a different version of the Champions' League... they wanted to create a new, continent-wide "superleague" which would reduce each nation's current top division to a second tier competition. They wanted to turn the Premier League, Ligue 1, Serie A and so on to the status of Championship, Ligue 2, Serie B. And not just keeping themselves in there permanently... making it pretty much impossible for anyone else to ever compete.
Of course, most football fans hated the idea, including fans of the Snake Six (especially Chelsea, kudos to for "We want our wet Wednesday nights in Stoke" banner). But there's been a lot of revisionism since to forget it ever happened, or to minimise it as a dispute about the format of the CL. It wasn't. The whole episode was a disgrace. The penalty? Tiny fines.