This was a strange one for me. Not the European Super League. I think it’s a shameful attack on football by clubs with no regard for fans and by certain clubs that have no European pedigree. Additionally, Europe has fifty five football associations, having twelve clubs from just three member nations makes it anything but European. Or Super.
I can think of one word beginning with ‘S’ but I’ll refrain from using it.
This is simply about money and I’ll tell you something else, all this pontificating from television companies like Sky, BT and Premier Sports has nothing to do with “saving football”. These companies destroyed football with the amount of money they poured into the game, but that’s for another day but does tie in with the main point of this article.
Speaking on Sky Sports, former Celtic striker Andy Walker, made a rather strange appearance to have make an outrageous criticism of Celtic on the proposed Super League even although it doesn’t involve the club, “I think you’ll hear supports say ‘We don’t want to be a part of this‘, we’ve heard from Gary Neville with regards to Man United supporters, we’ve hear that from Jamie Carragher with regards to Liverpool supporters.
“I think it would be absolute hypocrisy if you were to speak to any senior person at Celtic or at Rangers, and they did not want a slice of us.
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“How often have they tried to get involved into English football. How often have they discussed the idea of an Atlantic League. All of that was to generate more money. This European Super League as far as Celtic and Rangers are concerned is just another way to generate more money.”
Want speak hypocrisy Andy? You work for a company that systematically was involved in the dilution of Europe’s top competition by allowing teams that have no business competing, never mind winning the Champions League simply for money.
This is why companies like Sky, BT, Premier Sports and even the BBC have rolled out their big hitters. They don’t care about the game. They are simply doing what those twelve other clubs are doing and that’s looking after their own interests. The difference is at least those twelve clubs are honest about it eh Andy?
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