Edd
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ginger twat stealing my idea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7090961.stm
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Originally posted by Edd
what would be good though is if say 50 teams broke away from their respective countries leagues made their own 3 tier league set up and gave a big fuck you to uefa
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dave17
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never happen, ever
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Hammer
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The ginger twat
It will happen eventually imo Europe has a similar land mass to America, it has almost entirely a uniform currency and legally you only need a driving licence to move between boundaries. Only those that are short sighted will think it won't happen.
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dave17
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RACISM
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Mather.16v
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it will happen eventually, im not sure if it will be for the good of the game or supporters but it would be very exciting all the same
anythings possible in football with the money being thrown about, 10 years ago nobody would have thought footballers would be on 120k+
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Danny P
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Is a shite idea anyways
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IvIarkgraham
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this has been speculated for years
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richard_cooper
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I will happen, money will make sure of that
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antscorsa
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as if your gna travel to anothe country every week to watch your team!!
wont ever happen
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Hammer
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You're missing the point, Europe is almost identical to America in size and it works there for numerous sports. People are getting hung up on imaginary boundary lines.
If the money men, and ultimately the television companies, want it it will happen FIFA, UEFA, G14 you name it, nothing will stop them.
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Danny P
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quote:
Originally posted by antscorsa
as if your gna travel to anothe country every week to watch your team!!
wont ever happen
TV wont care about that as they will just buy the rights to the games, then make the fans pay a subscription to watch the games, and make a shed load of cash.
Clubs wont care as they will get a load of money from Leauge who sold the games to the TV companies.
Only people to lose out will be the fans.
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Russ
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americas boundries and europes boundries are different, personally, i think its a long way off. fans would be in up roar and would ruin football in general. a premiership where evertons and blackburns are the big teams? would be shit.
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Hammer
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Different how? they are almost identical in size, we now use the same currency almost blanketly and moving between countries is just about as easy as moving within 1 
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chris-sri
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That would ruin football. Can you imagine the real fans being able to afford to go to Ac Milan away one week and then Barcelona away two weeks later. The Champions League is the competition for the best teams in Europe and it should stay that way. This cropped up a few years back and never went anywhere.
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
Different how? they are almost identical in size, we now use the same currency almost blanketly and moving between countries is just about as easy as moving within 1
language barriers for a start. but cost to fans would be stupidly high, like chris said, return flight to barcelona saturday, 150 quid + ticket, milan wednesday, 150 quid + ticket, madness imho
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Hammer
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The prices of flights are coming down all the time, i'm not saying it's going to happen now but some time in the future if the men running the clubs want a European super league they'll get it.
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Cosmo
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I cant see it happening (atleast for a long long long long time) and agree that it would ruin football.
The way I see it is that if you had a European league then you basically scrap any chances of a European cup, as that special nature of playing the top foreign teams would be lost as they'd be in your league. And at the moment the joint revenue of the CL and the national league (especially the Prem) wouldnt be the same as the amount brought in by a single combined league.
Then you have other problems like away support, as this would almost 100% be lost. Hooliganism would start to rise its ugly head again as it becomes a country vs country thing again. No European Cup comps. The fall of the domestic league as the money coming into that would be tiny compared to a European League so no player would want to be anywhere else week in week out. Etc. etc.
Im sure it would be an exciting thing to watch, and would love to see those sorts of matches all the time at Anfield, but I certainly wouldnt want it to happen in my time.
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Hammer
The prices of flights are coming down all the time
Its not just price of flights...its more a matter of time which is more of a barrier.
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Hammer
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It'll get broken down into sections like America, the time and travel issue is a non starter. They have a model across the pond and it works.
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Hammer
It'll get broken down into sections like America, the time and travel issue is a non starter. They have a model across the pond and it works.
They get fuck all away fans in the US, not compared to what we get over here when you take into account the relatively small catchment area of the teams.
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Edd
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hammer talks sense it will happen
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Hammer
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Doesn't hinder the sport though? the richest sportsmen in the world are all American.
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Hammer
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hammer talks sense it will happen
I just had to double check who posted that there 
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by Hammer
Doesn't hinder the sport though? the richest sportsmen in the world are all American.
America has never had an atmosphere like domestic footy games though, it has always been over such a large area. Where as our fans know a good atmoshpere with away fans being present, and I really really doubt they'd want (and possibly allow) it to happen.
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