[Salopbaggie]

If we are being honest about all this, the issue is not about us fans, but it is all about fans, the billions of potential fans around the world who have never heard of West Brom or Everton, but know all about Man Utd, Real Madrid or Liverpool. While for the game as we know it, this is devastating, it is a different story for those billionaires with no real connection to the game other than the money.

They will never understand, having not been brought up teasing your friends when your team beats their team and suffering the torment of their team beating yours. Something carried across into adult life and we still turn into little boys and girls even now, at appropriate times, 'Wo1ve5', these people will never understand that football is our heritage, something which has passed down generation to generation.

They are looking at this purely commercially, 'why would they worry about the fan base in the UK or any other European country, when they have the fan base in China, India and the likes, a base running into billions of people. Any backtracking by the ESL now will just be short term and this or something similar will happen at some point, as sure as the Premier League happened and Champions League happened