All this chatter about an elite European Super League makes me hanker back to the days when football was a pariah, the hooligans ruled the roost in derelict unloved football stadiums with fans taking cover under cowsheds even in the top leagues around the country.
Of course, the Hillsborough disaster changed all that (although nothing much seemed to happen after Heysel and the Valley Parade fire in 1985) but even back then you could buy games on Spectrum and C64 that involved elite European Super Leagues.
However, for fans that attended their first game in the 1960s,1970s & 1980s, the game, at least at the elite level, is being snatched away by the corporates. It was those same fans though that initiated the demise by supporting Sky in the 1990s by buying subscriptions to watch Guffball.
I won't watch any second of the ESL if it happens but then I don't watch hardly anything of the EPL or the Champions League. The game is already starting to fracture by those 'new' fans to the game, especially from Asia but also from the middle classes of Europe to the 'old school' type of fan who identify with working class roots of the game of the club representing the community in which you live, and the 'matchday' experience being nothing more than a couple of pints before and few after.
The likes of Liverpool will soon play matches across the world and will inevitably detach from the community of which they emerged. They will be Liverpool in name only, although Manchester United have been like that since they used the Munich Air Disaster to promote the club across the world.
For me though, if it's a choice between Montrose v Stenhousemuir or Real Madrid v Liverpool then I would always choose the former. But then the European Super League wouldn't be created with people like me in mind.
The only positive I can see will be the inevitable implosion of the 'greatest league in the world'. Now, I definitely would tune in for that...