02 Nov 2018 22:19:20
I see the news ed02 told us a few years ago about the break away league is breaking sly sports now about arsenal not wanting to be involved!


1.) 02 Nov 2018
02 Nov 2018 23:20:58
I find that hard to believe, if it does happen they will certainly want to be involved, the tv money will inevevitably go with it.


2.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 00:25:39
From what I can remember Ed saying, Liverpool weren’t involved in talks at the time, since then I doubt arsenal have been either but a club the size of arsenal staying within England would be a great thing for the rest of the league if they wanted to stay. Sadly at the end of the day there are many top quality teams still left in Europe for the breakaway league which would definitely bring the other big teams with them, whether that includes Liverpool now or not.


3.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 00:55:15
If it happens it will be the end of football for me. I grew up on the terraces at Anfield playing your West Broms and Sheffield Uniteds this is the death of football as we know it. It’s barely recognisable anyway but this is the final straw.
It will break my heart but I’ll have to walk away.


4.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 07:46:24
Many feel like than Bobby.


5.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 08:29:55
With bobby on that.


6.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 10:10:15
Totally with you on that Bobby footy as we knew it would be dead.


7.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 10:33:27
I have to agree, it would ruin the game for me, whether we're involved or not.


8.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 10:53:45
Question is, do you see this happening? I certainly don't. If it does then I just don't know, I can't imagine it.

{Ed002's Note - The clubs have every intention of it happening.}


9.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 12:24:00
Spot on, Bobby. I would not want anything to do with league football anymore if this sham ever happened. This so called Super League has been in the works for over 20 years (I first heard of it in 1997) and even tho Ed02 is correct that many clubs have every intention of seeing it happen, I'll believe it when I see it, really. Why? Cos that is what many were saying back then and it ain't happened yet.


10.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 12:59:06
Ugh. Let’s wait and see if this definitely happens and then wait for the format before throwing toys out of the pram in the name of morality. At the end of the day, its a sport within an entertainment industry (or vice versa), not a political regime.
It won’t kill football because believe it or not, those breakaway clubs will still need footballers to be produced to a sufficient standard.

There will always be professional football, just in a different guise. I think it’s pretty arrogant to think that removing 5 or 6 clubs from English football will kill the passion of the supporters of the rest of the teams. Personally I think it could even make for a better a more even English competition. Look at the support for college football in the USA, for example, even in the face of a limited set number of AFC and NFC teams getting the vast majority of exposure and air time.

If it destroys it too much, people could always form Liverpool City FC so they can still rub shoulders with little Tommy and old widow McBurney on the terraces.


11.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 14:06:26
"People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones". 😃.


12.) 03 Nov 2018
03 Nov 2018 16:06:36
I know Ed has said many times that its almost inevitable, but i just can’t overlook the fact that football is nothing without fans. I find it highly unlikely the majority of fans would approve of something like this. I understand the need to shake football up a bit but at what cost? It just seems to me that the clubs are talking about it amongst themselves without asking the fans, the fans that generate their income and give football more meaning than 22 men kicking a pigs bladder around a field, and i can’t see this sitting well with the majority of fans.

{Ed001's Note - but they don't care because they think the TV companies will love it.}