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But it would have to be Europe wide otherwise our clubs start losing their competitiveness and would therefore lose their investors.
It's interesting to see the success of the Bundesliga in all this. They still charge reasonable amounts of money to fans but they don't have the revenue of our premiership clubs so have far fewer big name players. HOWEVER you don't tend to hear their fans complaining, I think they just pay less attention to European competition to focus on domestic honours, which can actually be won by a far greater number of clubs. In the last ten years five different teams have enjoyed a German championship title. They also average higher gates than Serie A, Ligue 1 and our Premiership.
Given that we as lower league football fans have NO experience in European football is it so hard to conceive of a top flight where the glory ISN'T all about success in European competition? I'd quite like it if a whole number of clubs were fighting for the Premiership rather than slogging it out with each other for the 4th Champions League place.
Drop the gate prices and stop paying ludicrous player salaries and yes we'd see less "world class" stars tearing up the place BUT we'd see a lot more genuine competition and isn't that what it's all about? After all I've never watched Brighton in a top flight match but it doesn't mean I haven't enjoyed following them all my life.
It's interesting to see the success of the Bundesliga in all this. They still charge reasonable amounts of money to fans but they don't have the revenue of our premiership clubs so have far fewer big name players. HOWEVER you don't tend to hear their fans complaining, I think they just pay less attention to European competition to focus on domestic honours, which can actually be won by a far greater number of clubs. In the last ten years five different teams have enjoyed a German championship title. They also average higher gates than Serie A, Ligue 1 and our Premiership.
Given that we as lower league football fans have NO experience in European football is it so hard to conceive of a top flight where the glory ISN'T all about success in European competition? I'd quite like it if a whole number of clubs were fighting for the Premiership rather than slogging it out with each other for the 4th Champions League place.
Drop the gate prices and stop paying ludicrous player salaries and yes we'd see less "world class" stars tearing up the place BUT we'd see a lot more genuine competition and isn't that what it's all about? After all I've never watched Brighton in a top flight match but it doesn't mean I haven't enjoyed following them all my life.