[El Car]

I have to say I'm bored stiff of a lot of the top sides because they're overexposed by global media coverage. I'd be happy to see Champions League games if we were in them right enough, but in the last few years I've more or less stopped watching it apart from maybe the final.

[Paigntonhibby]

years ago everybody wid pile intae the pub tae watch european teams because we never saw them very often, but wi' the overkill on the tellybox unless their ain team is involved nobody seems tae bother, in my opinion anyway

[TheWorthinGer]

I don't see the efforts to create a euro league being that different from the SPL - as was - or EPL. It's all about exclusion to retain cash.

[Larry-AV]

You are correct about exclusion to retain cash, Worthing, but at least the EPL and SPL (as was) had and have relegation from and promotion to them.
This Euro cartel envisages no promotion to it, so the founder teams will stay in it, irrespective of their domestic league position. Teams that would currently qualify domestically for Europe would be exluded from this Euro cartel.

[TheWorthinGer]

They can always play for their own European Cup. Maybe with just the champion of each country taking part in a purely two leg knock out competition.

It's novel but it might work.

[supercooper]

Can't see that working Worth. Champions from each country playing each other in knock out ties. Stuff of dreams.

[Larry-AV]

05/10/2016 : Opposition to the self-serving 'big clubs' and their attempts to blackmail UEFA into making their 'Champions' League placings permanent.

The Champions League is set for an overhaul from 2018, with the top four divisions given four automatic qualifying berths to the group stages, with the move coming about to placate any talk of Europe's biggest clubs forming a breakaway competition.

Skysports - SPFL chief Neil Doncaster hits out at Champions League changes

[hibeejim21]

A governing body acting wholly in the interests of a small section of its membership ?

Just like the SFA then.

[edgie]

on sporting integrity
Now that we have confirmation that there was a sporting advantage in the EBTS from the chairman at the times own mouth under oath, and the wee tax case bill being accepted by the club (not company) in 2010 (from the FD responsible) will the SFA have the guts and balls to strip
7 league championships
7 league cups
6 Scottish cups

All won with financial advantage gained through cheating the tax man and gaining an unfair sporting advantage??

[St Charles Owl]

I'll play devil's advocate on this, more as education for me than any real argument!!!

At the time Rangers were using EBTs to sign players they could not normally afford, isn't it true that EBTs were not illegal?? I know there has been some debate about the grey area of tax law that they came under, but weren't they outlawed at a later date?? Looking beyond football and just talking tax laws and loop holes in general, isn't this just another tax loop hole that was subsequently closed after its use came to light?? And surely back in the football world, Rangers can't be the only team in Britain who employed this method to get the players they wanted??