Thread by @babuyagu

This is something that came up in a podcast that became redundant as we finished recording as the English clubs pulled out.

We are seeing it as greed but for those 12 clubs it is survival. They are looking for solutions to serious financial problems which the death of FFP will

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only exacerbate and instead of UEFA doing anything to solve it - they are talking punitively. What will that really do? How does that solve ANY problem?

Meanwhile Bordeaux go into administration, many other teams will follow and the sole focus remains on 'those 12 bastards'.

As a society, as are experts at being distracted into focusing on symptoms rather than the problem.

Greed and corruption is a cancer in the game. The ESL is a symptom of that - a group wanting to collectively solve the problems unique to them. Because the model in football is

everyone is out for themselves. That is the reason it is easy to highlight so much hypocrisy. Trying to null and void a league had nothing to do with the sanctity of sporting merit. It was about clubs who might get relegated wanting to protect their EPL place.

Early this season the same clubs were in a better situation this season, despite the daily death count FAR surpassing last season, there was no such talk from West Ham and Villa about cancelling the season - they had their eyes on europe.

It is all self interest.

Leeds wanted a super league when they were in the Championship feeling like a big fish in a small pond. Their entire argument was they were the big draw in their league but only got a small slice of the pie. Sound familiar?

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Now the idea of teams doing so in the Premier League is abhorrent. And the exact same person talking about this for Leeds' benefit 3 years ago is leading the rhetoric against it.

It is self-interest.

We have the opportunity to collectively solve problems that are driving the game into the grave. Problems that we have felt for 30 years increasingly every season. Problems that were very clear 2 weeks ago. Problems that we are all be distracted from today.

It's pretty stupid.

And the simple test to see whether everyone is out for themselves is actions not words.

What happened when Bury were circling the drain? Did the FA do anything? No.

What is happening now Bordeaux are circling the drain and the rest of French football could follow. Are UEFA

doing anything? No.

Why? It doesn't affect them. Losing the UCL profits does. Losing the power and influence that comes with it. Losing the ability to take backhanders and bribes to pull the strings affects them personally.

But clubs going bankrupt? Nothing to do with them.

And the media is the exact same things. Are they looking to make the game more accessible? Or did they put prices UP during the lockdown?

Are they pushing for lower ticket prices? Cheaper kits?

What about a boycott of Qatar 2022? Of course not, you don't piss off the body

that decides who gets the broadcasting rights of the competitions. Imagine how it works out for Sky when the UEFA Champions League rights are up for renewal if they have been panning FIFA and UEFA beforehand?

It's self-interest. All of it is. We are being used to protect one

sides interests against the other. Instead of looking out for our own interests. Trying to solve these inherent problems.

But we don't have a brain. So we become the stick wielded by whoever can grab us first.