The Football Supporters Association has responded to today's ruling regarding the European Super League with a short but to the point response.
The Football Supporters Association Chief Executive Kevin Miles has had the following to say regarding this morning's ruling on a European Super League by saying:
"As our friends at Football Supporters Europe point out – there is no place for an ill-conceived breakaway super league.
"Supporters, players and clubs have already made clear they don’t want a stitched-up competition – we all want to see the trigger pulled on the walking dead monstrosity that is the European Zombie League.
"While the corpse might continue to twitch in the European courts, no English side will be joining. The incoming independent regulator will block any club from competing in domestic competition if they join a breakaway super league.
"Success must be earned on the pitch, not stitched-up in boardrooms.”
Football Supporters Europe backed up the FSA by saying:
"The European supporters’ movement remains united in strong opposition to any super league proposal, regardless of how it is repackaged. We will not let its promoters fool us that much has changed with their latest get rich quick scheme.”
Both organisations have got it spot on, in my opinion a European Super league is aimed at the armchair fan, not the supporter who goes to see his team play live on a regular basis.
Personally I would be happy to see the big clubs in England go to a European Super Leagus, but on the proviso that they resign from the premier League.
I think then and only then can football be returned to the supporters that follow their clubs by watching them live both home and also away when they can, but I also have a lot of sympathy for the long term supporters of the big clubs, they have seen their clubs taken from them by owners who despite fine words actually care little about the club and the community it is in, they can see no profit in that, only in selling it to a global audience, both on TV and also in what they see as logical progress, clubs actually playing games away from their home grounds.
From this perspective the true fans of Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Manchester City & Newcastle have a lot more to lose than the rest of us, they will lose the very sould of their football club.