La Liga to start playing league matches in the USA.

So the el clasico matches will obviously the first to be shunted across to NY / LA no doubt, it’s depressing almost like the migration of the game to all things money and American.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I think this sort of thing is what’s driven me towards going to more and more lower-league football, National League South and below. It’s almost as if the game these absolute tossers are ripping apart is a different sport altogether tbh. It’s a circus really.
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The mighty Lewisham Borough are into the play offs and in the cup final! Last home game this Saturday if you're up to it.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I think this sort of thing is what’s driven me towards going to more and more lower-league football, National League South and below. It’s almost as if the game these absolute tossers are ripping apart is a different sport altogether tbh. It’s a circus really.
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When I lived in Aberdeen I used to go home and away to Cove Rangers in their Highland League days. This kind of thing, Sky and VAR are getting me thinking I'd be as well going to non-league.
 
Expat Smoggie said:
So the el clasico matches will obviously the first to be shunted across to NY / LA no doubt, it’s depressing almost like the migration of the game to all things money and American.
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It's even worse though isn't it? BBC sport frequently have news articles on American handegg, American rounders and American netball.
On the radio yesterday there was a two minute article with Lebron James moaning about his netball team - the Atlanta Shitehawks I think - losing in their 17th play-off final game against the Miami Spunkhounds.
Nobody over here cares, except Colin Murray and a few dozen other sad yankee doodle wannabees. Get this imperial culturism out of the UK,
 
The PL is obviously a totally different proposition but I don't think the Championship (other than parachute payments) has been totally ruined by money per se, or certainly not yet. No VAR, none of this games abroad nonsense (no demand for it in truth), so I don't see why you necessarily need to go and watch non-league to avoid it (although I do watch non-league myself sometimes).
 
ThePrisoner said:
Get this imperial culturism out of the UK.
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This is a bit ironic given how all of 'our' sports became globally popular.

NFL and NBA are globally popular. Basketball is big all over Europe, Ice Hockey is huge in a number of countries too. I'll accept that Baseball doesn't seem to be that big here, but then again you don't see it mentioned that much here either tbf.
 
I just tend to feel disenchanted with football these days ,it's no longer the sport most of us grew up with.
I have a particular annoyance with most short sponsors being gambling companies, it's about time clubs stand up against this and the potential damage to it's community....
 
TheYorkshireTerrier said:
Kinda wish we just let them all feck off with the super league now.
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They weren't going anywhere though.

They'd still have been playing in the Premier League, just F***ing over the rest of the country by playing in their own closed competition mid-week at the same time.

I'd have this up there as just as bad an idea, but I'm not surprised that La Liga are the ones to go for it.
They'd already moved their Super Cup to Saudi Arabia.
 
You going to the Sunderland game?

Riverside or SOL?

Neither, San Francisco..
The club are doing a supporters flight, £2k each, plus an extra loyalty point.
 
It’s been a while since “the 39th game” has been discussed, bet it gets suggested now in the wake of this
 
39th game will definitely be top of the PL agenda next meeting, every £££ counts, hugely depressing if this is the future for the big European leagues
 
I am less and less interested in football these days. I watch Boro but I watch fewer games as a neutral, despite there being more access to watch more than ever before. I still like football but the more predictable it is the less interesting it is and everyone knew at the start of the season in the PL who would be at the top and who would be at the bottom and I'd go as far as to say you could predict the teams that will be competing for the league for the next 5+ years or so and there will be no surprises. Money dominates the sport and the teams with the most money win and that gives them bigger prize money to continue winning. It's just not interesting. I watch Boro and I want us to win and I want us to be promoted but I don't watch other championship games because the prize is just money for being in the PL. Even established PL teams treat the cup competitions with contempt because they don't generate money.

This is just another thing that makes it more about money than the actual competition.

ThePrisoner said:
It's even worse though isn't it? BBC sport frequently have news articles on American handegg, American rounders and American netball.
On the radio yesterday there was a two minute article with Lebron James moaning about his netball team - the Atlanta Shitehawks I think - losing in their 17th play-off final game against the Miami Spunkhounds.
Nobody over here cares, except Colin Murray and a few dozen other sad yankee doodle wannabees. Get this imperial culturism out of the UK,
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This is complete nonsense. There is massive interest in American sports, particularly NFL. It's estimated that there are over 13m NFL fans in the UK which is a significant number. People in the UK following the NFL is not the same as Americans following the PL because we don't have an NFL equivalent to follow locally. I don't like the idea of them playing their International Series games in the UK/Mexico/Germany (even though I have attended) but their approach to their teams is different to ours with the whole franchise system meaning teams can just move cities/states and the fact that they are so spread out as a country that fans travelling home and away isn't the same as football.
 
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