UEFA Hates England
June 27th 2008 15:28
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In an absolutely moronic move, supposedly UEFA are attempting to ban Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal from Champions League play next season. UEFA president Michel Platini is reported in the Daily Star as wanting to stop clubs with large debts from playing in European competitions. I guess in an attempt to stop big club’s who are already in debt, from spending even more money that they don’t have.
But, I believe the problem with that philosophy to be, UEFA has no right to say how money at a club is spent or how far into debt a club goes. Football has no salary restrictions, so a club should be, and is, free to spend as much as they want on their squad. Although with debts at Chelsea and Manchester United supposedly being as high as £600million, perhaps a little caution wouldn’t be a bad idea to avoid the same situation as Leeds fell into.
(UEFA Must Be Afraid Of This)
But why is it that the English teams are always the first named, when talking about cutting down on big club spending? Are Real Madrid not the team that still hold the record for the biggest transfer fee paid for one player, with Zidane? Cleary £45million is quite a lot to spend for a player, not even including his wages. Real Madrid have to be in debt to some point, and they are the most successful team in UEFA Champions League history, so why aren’t they mentioned?
Simply because UEFA just like FIFA, hate England, and the fact that English teams are at the top of their game. England is so hated in Europe unfairly, that people need to attack football’s country of birth for some unknown reason. I’m guessing it’s the years of England’s almost lack of production in big European competitions, and now that’s come to and end. So everyone is mad that football’s inventor is taking the game back, and to the next level I guess?
(and afraid of this too?)
The Premiership is the biggest league in the world now, so UEFA needs to knock it down a peg? Premiership ratings skyrocketing to new heights and gaining the league an every growing world audience is a problem for the sport? The Premiership in many ways has become bigger than the Champions League, so you have to deny them the right to express dominance over another league? It doesn’t make sense.
Like backwards relegation. If you win the league, you get dropped from it. Apparently that’s UEFA’s new rule set. You can only play in the Champions League if you aren’t a major performer. Teams that aren’t true Champions are the only ones allowed in Europe’s premier competition. If you win the Cup when better teams are barred from competing, are you really even a champion at that point?
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But still, four English teams in the quarter-finals last Champions League. Platini can't cover that up. And if the same four are allowed to play next year, which they will be, I bet all four get to the quarter's again.