Is Reform In England Even Possible Right Now?
Here’s the first question; with the collapse of the European Super League, is the idea of a British league even possible at the moment? If Celtic were to be interested in this, would we be hitching our wagon to an idea that has no chance of success?
We do this from time to time.
We supported the idea of colt teams in the lower leagues although the idea originated at Ibrox and our support for it made it reek of Old Firm Inc. and probably doomed the whole idea.
We lack the strategic outlook to realise this stuff.
We’ve said nothing on this and I’d advise us not to, because the architects of this idea are toxic.
If this suggestion that come from the 14 teams who hadn’t proposed the European league there would be an opportunity here, but this has come from the so-called Big Six.
They’ve just suffered their second major defeat of the year, the first being their attempt to grab control of the EPL in exchange for a massive financial donation to the lower leagues.
It will be a long time before they are in a position to propose anything.
Nobody in the top flight trusts them.
Clubs in the leagues under them now see them as rapacious and greedy and unprincipled.
Under these guys, this is a total non-starter. They couldn’t get approval if they wanted to pass a motion stipulating that the grass has to be green.
So right from the off, this story has more holes in it than Swiss Cheese.
These people aren’t going to get such a proposal through the rest of the clubs. Not in any way that I can see. But if they did then the terms would have to be extreme. I worry about that.
Let’s have a think about what those terms might be.