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alincoln

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  1. Exactly, particularly as someone with a business in Columbus with a building that rioters tried to burn down while our IT staff was inside.
  2. And that is depressing and dangerous, not laughable. No one is acting like this is the first time this has occurred. It is expected.
  3. I don't think the fact that elements of the media are actively distorting reality to suggest that police shot an unarmed black 15 year old girl in the immediate wake of the Chauvin verdict is laughable at all.
  4. And they are circling the wagons now more than ever. Avoiding situations that lead to police shootings is a relatively immature "solution" instead of addressing the underlying issues but it probably will lead to less police shootings. Police are increasingly defining their role as investigatory instead of preventative in high crime areas.
  5. There is at least anecdotal evidence that police departments (including the Columbus PD) have significantly decreased patrols in black neighborhoods and that response times to reports of violent crimes in those neighborhoods have increased significantly. In Columbus, there has been talk of police basically abandoning Linden (the poorest black neighborhood in the city). There has been significant attention given to the "post-pandemic" violence but the murder rate was already up almost 40% in 2020. In Columbus, black male homicide victims increased from 58 in 2019 to 84 in 2020, a 50% increase, and half of those murders didn't result in any arrest. Murder without consequences yields more murder.
  6. BBC says all English teams are out.
  7. United fans tried to burn Ed Woodward's house down and led years long LUHG/Green and Gold campaigns to no avail. Liverpool is also in the midst of its most successful run since the 80s.
  8. Germany went from a not-for-profit model in which all clubs were owned by members associations to a 50+1 model that permitted limited private investment and ownership. England would be going the exact opposite direction from entirely private ownership to a 50.1% "fan" ownership. The Big 6 alone are collectively valued in excess of $20 billion. The economic and legal implications of simultaneously requiring divestment of more than 50% ownership of all English clubs would be unworkable and in the long run Man United and Liverpool would be the greatest beneficiaries given that future spending would primarily depend on legitimate operating income.
  9. Neville is a grandstanding cunt. Never said a word about the multitude of events that gave rise to the current situation but is now "courageously" railing against the resulting situation in a transparent effort to burnish his personal brand. Very 2020s. Klopp's dissection of Neville is a bit more subtle and biting than the media has recognized imo.
  10. Kill the indefensible and irrelevant Nations League and Club World Cup and place control of the CL and the distribution of its proceeds in the hands of the Big 5 leagues (not just a cadre of the super clubs) instead of UEFA bureaucrats. UEFA and FIFA should manage their own legitimate international competitions (Euros and WC) but their oversight and control over club football should be greatly diminished. Additional layers of bureaucratic middlemen increase inefficiency, waste and corruption, but that is the European way.
  11. Its no Rennes v. Krasnodar but I think we could live with it Matchday 1 Man Utd v AC Milan Barcelona v Liverpool Chelsea v Inter Milan Bayern v Arsenal Atletico v Leipzig Chelsea v Madrid Tottenham v Juventus PSG v Dortmund
  12. I have mixed feelings. I do think it would be very interesting to see the best consistently play against the best. The proposed additional watering down of the Champions League will only further reduce the interesting matchups. The talent gulf produced by the massive influx of cash has also created too many bunkering contests in league play which were far rarer in the 90s. It's just not very compelling soccer to watch a Big 6 team try to break through deep banks of 5 and 4 players every other week. The Super League would provide a welcome respite from that style. On the other hand, it's not much of leap from a Super League to a complete abandonment of the national leagues which would destroy soccer history. Dumping a bastardized CL in favor of the Super League doesn't trouble me much.
  13. I would also say that the grandstanding and predictably hyperbolic reaction to the proposed Super League by politicians, administrators, columnists, media figures and social media influencers is so very emblematic of our current environment. The CL has been a cynical money grab ever since it was expanded for the 1999-2000 season. Remember that CL qualification wasn't even a thing before then. European and particularly English football were sold to the highest bidder more than a decade ago and trophies are almost universally bought and paid for. Gary Neville working himself into a lather about the Super League while Chelsea and then City literally purchased the mountaintop of English football with petrodollars is pretty rich. The horse has been out of the barn for a long fucking time Gary. He wasn't waling and gnashing his teeth when the expanded CL killed the relevance of a true hallmark of English football (the FA Cup).
  14. So more rebates they can't afford to their broadcast partners then. UEFA further demonstrating their legendary foresight by voluntarily delegitimizing its own CL within 48 hours of the announcement of the Super League.
  15. The concern in England specifically is that the Super League will reduce the competitiveness of the Premier League. The elimination of CL qualification will cause the Super League teams who aren't in contention for the EPL title to coast through the end of the season. Tonight's Liverpool-Leeds game is (was?) very important to Liverpool due to CL qualification. In the Super League era, it would mean nothing because Liverpool would be in the Super League next season regardless of their league position. This is a hugely significant concern. I do wonder how football would evolve if the best players in the world are constantly playing against each other as would be the case in the Super League.
  16. United fans have tried to get rid of the Glazers ever since they bought the club.
  17. The President of PSG declined the opportunity to become the new President of the ECA. Wonder why?
  18. Exactly. Also, how are they going to ban players for playing in a league that hasn't started playing yet (begins play in 2023-2024)? In any event, the Super League can probably pay off FIFA to address the World Cup issue which leaves UEFA holding only the Euro card.
  19. Also reading that there has been a flurry of cases decided in the past couple years in various European courts with respect to the creation of alternative leagues in other sports that would support the creation of the Super League.
  20. The CL would basically become a glorified Europa League that will presumably include the highest placed non-Super League clubs. The initial Super League plans provide for play-in opportunities for non-permanent members but that doesn't seem workable in practice.
  21. La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 are no different. Juve has won 9 straight Serie A titles, there has only been 1 La Liga winner outside of the Barca/Madrid duopoly since 2004 and PSG has won 7 of the last 8 Ligue 1 titles. 31 of the last 32 league titles in the Big 5 leagues outside of England have been won by 5 teams (PSG, Bayern, Juve, Madrid/Barca) and 39 of the last 40 CL finalists have come from the Super 12/Bayern. It's already a de facto closed system when it comes to the important trophies. As for the EPL, it has been won once since 1995 by a team outside the Big 6.
  22. I just don't think there is a quick salve that is going to kill the Super League. There are already a bunch of exceptions to the German 50 + 1 rule that allow some owners to maintain voting control (RBL for one). The Super 12 have already invested millions into this plan and have engaged the best law firms and financial advisors in the world to execute its implementation.
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