Re: United European League? Of course, the Old Firm (Celtic & Rangers) prefer this outcome... Because they're just sick and tired of playing against weak opposition every weekend and then against very tough opposition every wednesday... The weird case in Scotland is that close to 90% of all the money in Football in the country is shared by 2 clubs, and the rest are picked up 4 divisions of 10 clubs and the rest of the Scottish Premier League... Naturally, with more resources at their disposal, the 2 clubs simply outshine the rest of the country...
The idea of Europe's best clubs breaking away and forming a European League was mooted a few years back when the industry was having a "recession" then when attendances fell in Serie A, TV money crashed in EPL and La Liga started becoming boring...
But the outcome then was that this would result in more lower-league clubs going bankrupt, which is bad for the industry and thus wasn't accepted. Besides, there's alot of pride in the different countries in Europe, they won't allow this to happen... |