#Or is it a gay men’s club?
They’re also losing the graphics art battle. Filed by SLCo (Super League Company (which I don't suppose they know is also the abbreviation of Salt Lake County)) today. Is that a guy wearing a bowler? Lol.
“We Are the Champions” to become the anthem? Lolol.
*Updated. I am pretty--not 100%!--clear now that the Super League is a tournament, not a full-fledged round-robin league. I am very clear that there has been appallingly shoddy journalism done on this thing, even by the New York Times, which has at least three stories so far. As fans and politicians (BoJo, Macron, even Prince William! *facepalm*) understand them the lines are drawn Super League vs. Premier League (e.g.). rather than Super League vs. Swine UEFA. I am beyond any reasonable doubt clear that the Super League has gotten absolutely trounced in the p.r. battle.
4:45 p.m.:
I am not clear yet on that. Is it a tournament played concurrently with the national leagues and a replacement of the Champions League? Or is it a round-robin play league like the Premier League? If the former then the rage that met yesterday's announcement is, in my view, greatly misplaced. If the latter then I share the grave misgivings if not exactly the rage.
The astoundingly successful English Premier League was itself a breakaway league from the English Football League. In the late 1980's English soccer was declining alarmingly with hooliganism, antiquated stadia and lack of money to retain English players, who were leaving for the continent. The Premier League was formed in 1992 to take advantage of the huge pot of television money--exactly the rationale for the Super League. The distinction between the Premier League and the Super League is the existence of permanent members. None in England's "pyramid system," fifteen in the Super League. But neither is the Super League, whatever form it is to take, a "closed system" like the NBA or all other North American sports leagues, including Major League Soccer, which is a pyramid scheme but not system. The point is, the Super League has a promotion and relegation system. Five of its envisioned twenty (exactly the size of the EPL) yearly participants will be invited to join the permanents! Three English clubs are every year relegated from the upper chamber of the pyramid and three from the lower chamber are promoted. So, 15% of the Premier League changes yearly; 25% of the Super League will be subject to change annually. In the twenty-eight years of the Champions League, only seven clubs other than those in the founding group of the Super League, have won the Champions League. Four of those seven times the CL winner has been Munich or Dortmund, two clubs invited to join the Super League but for now declining. What exactly is the problem? Manchester City is still going to play Huddersfield Town. If the Super League is a tournament like the Champions League, and not a replacement for the national domestic leagues, then, well, let me put it this way: if UEFA was on fire outside my door fifteen feet from where I sit to type this, I would not deign get up from my chair to open the door and piss on them to extinguish the flames.
If on the other hand the Super League is not a tournament but a round-robin thirty-eight game competition then there is a problem: the EPL, Serie A, La Liga, would be decapitated.
