Goodbye G14

Yesterday the G14 was disbanded. I venture that was a good day for football. When rich and powerful people gather together to pursue their interests it is never a good thing for the rest of us. Perhaps they have succeeded in creating football in the image that suited their original aims. A football that has sufficient barriers to avoid the elite from having to share their power and their money.

"The clubs feel they belong to the family of football again." Their outgoing President Jean-Michael Aulas [left] nobly states with the "sound-bite-I'm-a-reasonable-bloke-we-love-the-game" chumminess that is understandable when you got what you wanted and have royally kicked the crap out of the game and worked towards creating multi tiered ghettos within European domestic leagues and an elite continental competition that each season has a last 16 that changes little from the usual suspects year on year

"Manchester United ...... will play.......... Bayern Munich " don't they always, it's a regular fixture.

So good bye you greedy bastards. Feel free to regroup in the future should anything ever threaten your stranglehold on our game.

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