DaveT

Good news that it’s falling apart. The fallout for us is going to be nasty though. At best it’ll be back to the status quo..... and the complacency that everything in the garden was rosy. Tim Sherwood just now:If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Well, apart from a near monopoly of domestic trophies achieved through a decade of sports washing, massive spending and cheating, incompetent/biased refereeing, abysmal VAR implementation , rip-off ticket prices and tv subscriptions pricing younger and lower income fans out of the game. Apart from that, it’s wonderful.

They must be the worst in the division for that. Ayling is a horrendous cheat, with his belly-flopping. On the other hand, Taylor behaves as if giving us a free kick will cause his dick to fall off. Having said that, the match should have been all over by half time. Usual mix of poor decision making and equally poor execution

About 18 months?

This all feels a bit irrelevant now!

From the Beeb.... The new format will see 36 clubs qualifying for an expanded 'first phase', where all clubs will play against 10 opponents of varying strengths. This will result in a league table, with the top eight qualifying for the knockout phase and the next 16 going into a play-off for the remaining eight slots. So, some form of seeding to ensure the top clubs get into the knockouts. Just a different variation on the theme of more games = more money (including to UEFA). At least it doesn’t have the closed shop element

All this talk of greed and self interest is a bit rich. You'd think it was invented last night. Not a few months back when KdB was signing a new contract for £300k a week - (yes, that's 10 times the average ANNUAL wage, per WEEK) or reports of Pogba agitating allegedly for £500k a week only a few days ago. How many footballers took a pay cut when their clubs were facing massive losses and whilst the rest of the population were being made redundant or put on reduced wages? Or £15 to watch a shitty match on tv? Or the self-interest of those clubs threatened with relegation last season who wanted to null and avoid? Glass houses getting shattered left right and centre out there. I'm all for a sensible rational debate, but the hypocrisy and double standards are ......... unsurprisingly predictable.

I’ve just seen Rooney on Sky being asked about the Super League...... or was it Darren Farley? Difficult to tell. I also heard a CHELSEA(!!!) fan earlier banging on ‘it’s all about greed and money’ and how it’s unfair on ‘the likes of Leicester’. You couldn’t make it up

I don’t agree with the proposal - its fundamentally flawed from a sporting perspective. But the amount of bullshit and hypocrisy across the media - and pundits -this morning is staggering. ‘Not in the interests of fans’ I’ve just heard. Like £70 tickets are? Or being asked to travel to the opposite end of the country on a Monday night? Or VAR in its current format? Or having to have multiple expensive tv subscriptions to (legally) follow your team? Or watching the erosion of fair competition through massive sustained financial doping and cheating? ‘Not in the interests of fans’ my arse. That horse bolted 30 years ago.

And our membership of the unofficial cabal of elite European clubs pre-dates FSG by a long time.

Fernandinho should have had two yellows already

Starting back 4 cost 230m. Another £140m of defenders on the bench. Not buying success, honestly,guv

Yeah - he fucked us over at Leicester not very long ago.

Every time I’ve seen their goalie, he’s done his best to gift the opposition a goal with a terrible pass. With our current poor finishing, however.... Not exactly thrilled about having Anthony Taylor in charge, with Mason on VAR.

And we'll never know how much the loss of Klopp's mum and Alisson's dad, and their inability to attend their funerals affected those two.

I doubt whether I'll bother watching any of those CL games. That semi-final line-up warrants a 'Shiteness of modern football' thread all of its own.