Nick De Marco "Legal action is inevitable"

[modboy]

cant they for example use a university campus or St Georges park? Not like they need to be in billion pound stadiums.

 

Loads of halls of residences going empty at the moment, players if they wish to play have to move in two weeks before games recommence (to ensure they are virus free) then play several games per day back to back to clear the back log.

 

Im sure they could play 3 times a week each team as its going to be less intense than in front of fans as less face it most matches are going to be like meaningless pre-season friendlies. 

[darra]

18 hours ago, DJMortimer said:

As far as I'm concerned, the salary cap in the NFL has been extremely beneficial to everyone involved. It protects all players from being underpaid because there is a minimum salary level, stops teams accumulating talent to prevent others having it because of the roster limit and overall cap, penalises teams for financial imprudence, broadens the level of competition across the league yet still allows some degree of freedom to reward the best players and open up something of a market for them to move around.

 

If you want the spectacle of player movements as some kind of show within a show, the NFL free agency and especially college draft periods make Sky's transfer window nonsense look like a small village fete and has an element of parity as part of the fundamental framework instead of the loaded dice we've got. However, they only play a maximum of 20 games over a span of 5 months, so that would have to be factored in to any solution. You can nitpick if you like out of some kind of protective parochialism, and maybe the system is not perfect, but generally the NFL is way more organised than the professional leagues over here, which often succeed despite themselves. 

 

Now as Ricky has already pointed out, the infrastructure and history here are significantly different, so an exact duplicate probably would not be practically possible. But that is no reason not to use it as a starting point with bespoke elements where required. Unfortunately though, it almost certainly will not happen because there is simply too much greed, selfishness, vested interest, celebrity culture and downright callousness, especially at the highest points in the football pyramid. 

 

Or we can just carry on as we are with the almost inevitable conclusion of half a dozen clubs (maximum) in the largest European countries increasingly cementing their status as the elite, the media fawning over those to reinforce this even when they may be going through a period of relative struggle, 'ordinary' supporters being devalued and disenfranchised and those clubs outside this semi-closed shop becoming less and less sustainable. The first club has already gone, how many are likely to follow?

Good post. The biggest hurdle I see when all this is done is persuading fans that going to.football is better than spending time with their families. Also, many fans will realise they have more money in their pockets through not attending games and all the other costs included in watching matches other than the cost of the ticket to get in the ground.