[St Charles Owl]

I still say kick them out and let the game in England move on without them. Sure it will have to have a massive financial overhaul and it will be poorer in every financial sense but it will survive like it did before the arrival of the tv money. Football in the 70s and 80s really suffered because of the hooligan issue but prior to that you saw the game thrive in the 50s and 60s, almost exclusively due to the fans turning out and supporting the game, that what we need to do again. Getting back to players on very good wages by any standard and off the silly money levels the Sky money has brought, charging fans less for tickets to games and getting back to developing and then playing young English talent rather than expensive foreign players would help.

I know it all sounds like nostalgia but if this competition is allowed to go ahead then it will make a mockery of the leagues in the countries with teams involved, nothing to gain aside from first place and essentially no chance for any club outside the top six to ever win anything they decide to put their effort into as the money they will have will dwarf the 7th biggest team let alone the rest. The PL has already created tiers within the game even in the top division, there are at least 10 clubs that have only one goal - survival, they have no aspiration to do anything more because they can't afford it. Then there are the teams in the Championship spending silly money to try to get to the promised land, sometimes that works but its left a huge amount of debt or financial issues at clubs who tried and failed - just look at my team for evidence of that one!! Every team should have a shot of glory, even if it only happens once in a generation, but the lure of football for the fans of most teams outside the top 6 is that one day it might be them!! This US style format removes that completely.