TeaCider
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Fair play, Klopp does not sound happy whatsoever, this seems to have blindsided him.
Watching him being interviewed right now before the match and he's only just holding back from calling out the owners.
That won’t happenI envisage a future for football like Boxing. A sport full of different federations and titles. A game split into the mega rich, the rich and the rest. Titles will become meaningless and the joy and passion sucked out of a game we once loved. Very sad day for football.
I hope it won’t happen but people said many things about the “untouchable game” and my only expectation now is the unexpected. We have allowed foreign ownership to seep into the game and this is the inevitable extension of it.That won’t happen
I am so disappointed in our club for not releasing a message of condemnation about this.
It's not the 1980s, they should be able to respond on the same day, not wait for the manager to answer in person.
This is the only communication from our club today:
It's embarrassing.
the footballing bubble has burst, these charlatans think they can keep growing their bubble by popping everyone elses.- They think the game is already won and fans will fall into line.
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I cant speak for every non league club but over 60,000 grants worth over £800m haven been given out over the years by the Football Foundation to non league clubs. I would imagine most if not all clubs at that level have a hardy bunch of volunteers raising money, but especialyl in this current climate theres only so much you can raise. They money handed down the pyramid, whether you disagree with how its shared out, is massive for grassroots clubs.Why are they having to rely on grants?
The club I follow have spied for grants in the last from the lottery and the football foundation for pitch improvements and stadia improvements, turned down both times
So raised the money themselves and with the help of a strong team of volunteers have made those improvements?
I could understand his point in that its not the players or managers decision, and its them who were getting the stick. He has to realise like it or not they are the public face of the club, so thats bound to happen.I was disappointed with Klopp's interview. He seemed to skirt around the issue. That was his chance to come out an unequivocally condemn the competition and whilst he said he wasn't in favour, he left the door wide open and changed the angle of attack on those attacking Liverpool. That was poor.
We shouldn't throw them out of the english league structure for 2 reasons a) as soon as we push them out, we no longer have any ability to influence them in the future, b) we believe in sporting meritocracy, they should have a route, after any punishment to come back into the system, if they play fairly.Throw them all out of the Champions League now and throw them out of the Prem at the end of the season.
The game is bigger than these clubs although governance does need an overhaul.
Klopp should bluntly blame the owners, in a manner similar to what Milner did, no ambiguity, no defence of the owners as good people, this isn't about him, or his players. However they all, including Klopp face that decision, strongly and unanimously state they are on the side of fans and sporting integrity or be wooly and ambiguous which is effectively a tacit support of the owners right to make whatever decisions they want. It's not fair that he has to make that choice. But it isn't fair that every British football fan is facing our game being shredded for the Liverpool owners personal profit. So be strong Klopp, be braver, and show your loyalty is to the game and the fans, not the owners. Because quite frankly your argument that the owners are good and reasonable people was very very poor.I could understand his point in that its not the players or managers decision, and its them who were getting the stick. He has to realise like it or not they are the public face of the club, so thats bound to happen.
Probably Man City and Chelsea. Man City waivered at joining to start with, Chelsea, would you want to bring the old Chelsea hoolies back out of retirement? Abramovich loves spending time in London, he spends a lot of time here, that's not going to be possible if he is openly vilified by 15million football fans.Oliver Holt
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Hearing the first cracks may be beginning to appear in the ugly, misshapen edifice of the ESL. Told two English clubs are close to losing their nerve.
- It's probably not Arsenal and Spurs, is it
I think the threat of immediate CL expulsion would mean City back out straight away, such is their desire to win the CL.Throw them all out of the Champions League now and throw them out of the Prem at the end of the season.
The game is bigger than these clubs although governance does need an overhaul.
It'll be the two Manchester clubs. Even the Manchester Evening News turned on them yesterday.Oliver Holt
Via Twitter
Hearing the first cracks may be beginning to appear in the ugly, misshapen edifice of the ESL. Told two English clubs are close to losing their nerve.
- It's probably not Arsenal and Spurs, is it