Meaningful matches outside of the UK

[tickler28]

https://theathletic.com/2848365/2021/09/27/ornstein-premier-league-look-at-meaningful-matches-abroad-euro-2020-final-refunds-derby-lifeline/?source=emp_shared_article

 

Could see our owners loving a match or 2 in Thailand in years to come.....thoughts?

[ealingfox]

No way fans would allow it surely.

[coolhandfox]

No.....

[filbertway]

I'd like to think that this would get the same level of opposition as the super league did.

[urban.spaceman]

No. 

[Corky]

Completely distorts the competition and benefits six clubs.

 

The third such proposal in a year. Although wasn't this the Game 39 thing from about 10 years ago? They all just blend into one big opportunity for the top teams to pull away.

[coolhandfox]

I think fans should react in the same way as they did for the super league.

 

Fan power 

[GingerrrFox]

I welcome Leicester supporters from anywhere in the world to join the locals in supporting our great football club. For me anyone is welcome to enjoy English football and adopt an English football club but fundamentally English football is English and we want to keep it that way. Leicester play home games in Leicester for me and not anywhere else. 

Edited 27 September 2021 by GingerrrFox

[StanSP]

No thanks. Not back when it was first discussed, not now, not ever. 

[whoareyaaa]

They have said there are no plans for this so probably just bollox

[Spudulike]

It's almost like they keep testing the water, sniping away until we're all totally fed up and just say whatever, do what you want. 

[davieG]

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

Inevitable.

 

The owners will support the fan led review and make changes like drinking beer in the stadium and safe standing, but then they'll take with the other hand and push for more moves like this, the super league and other things. (I don't include ours in this but you know what I mean).

 

Don't fall for it. The fan led review was not meant to address drinking beer in your seat - hardly the biggest problem in football.

[Voll Blau]

If you don't fight against this then you don't deserve to support our football club.

[LaCiudad]

Definite no. 

[davieG]

For us fans it would soon become Meaningless matches outside of the UK.

[Foxxed]

Nah. It will change the nature of football from a geographical social good to (even more so) a global commodity.

 

It's a slippery slope. It'll be like university fees: small and reasonable initially and then crazy once a precedent is set.

 

[Lambert09]

Why would anyone be for this. 
 

I find it weird that countries focus more on our league than their own 

[Voll Blau]

Just now, Lambert09 said:

Why would anyone be for this. 
 

I find it weird that countries focus more on our league than their own 

The problem there is the desire of major European leagues to each stamp their own footprint in these countries. What chance do clubs in developing leagues have against that financial might?

 

[Babylon]

Here we go again, and on the same day the breakaway league noises start up again. 
 

Honestly just f*** off the lot of them. 

[MarriedaLeicesterGirl]

It only hurts the local teams and local leagues and creates a de facto "Super League."

 

International fans can be served by pre-season tournaments. If you want them to be meaningful, then add some sort of qualification (maybe something bringing together the four domestic winners -- shield, league, league cup, and fa cup -- have fun, and maybe add in some of the Scottish teams.)

[TrentFox]

2 hours ago, GingerrrFox said:

I welcome Leicester supporters from anywhere in the world to join the locals in supporting our great football club. For me anyone is welcome to enjoy English football and adopt an English football club but fundamentally English football is English and we want to keep it that way. Leicester play home games in Leicester for me and not anywhere else. 

Although, we did pretty well playing ‘at home’ in Nottingham, once 😂

[fox_up_north]

I mean, if the club want to pay for fans to go out there and see them play - I'm not going to say no. 

 

 

Because that would be the only fair way to play a home game out there. Everything else is just bollocks. 

[Fox92]

No.

 

It's already a joke they play derbies, such as Man Utd v Liverpool, in America pre-season just to please that side of their business. 

 

Absolutely everything against what football is.

[Dan]

Resist everything they try and give them nothing. They will never be fully satisfied. Give them nothing.