If Bohemians did a BATE/Famagusta.....

[holidaysong]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Sounds more doable than Depor, although there's still some decent teams in there. And four teams isn't that many.

It's actually five, not four.

[peadar1987]

I think we're going to see a European Super League some time in the not-too-distant future unfortunately.

If this does happen I can see it leading to one of two things for Irish football:

1- People start to drift away from supporting the Sky 4 when they're not winning 3-0 every week, and might decide to come to LOI games instead

2- Far more likely, the FAI pump all the budget for domestic football into creating a "Dublin Celtic" who play in Lansdowne Road and feature no Irish players. Nobody ever attends an LOI game again. Barstoolers kid themselves that they are supporting Irish domestic football. Jesus weeps.

[Boh_So_Good]

1- People start to drift away from supporting the Sky 4 when they're not winning 3-0 every week, and might decide to come to LOI games instead

Never happen. Their "support" is not rooted in the sport of football - it's the box of coloured lights in the corner or the living room on their wall of the pub which tells them what to think and feel.

You are making the assumption they understand football. Oirish football supporters have no more understanding of the sport of football than a bacteria in a peta dish is directly involved in the development of a public healthcare strategy. They go were the capillary action draws them. They are not involved at any cognative level.

Irish Premiership supporters are not interested in the game of football and never have been. It's all about their chlidlike minds being spellbound by coloured lights and fast moving cameras. The group think and hive mind psychosis takes care of them from there.

Honestly, there are days I do wonder if the Oirish Premiership brigade are part of some giant CIA/MI6 mind control operation to see just how sheeplike a human being can be made.

They'll all be devoted whatever Brit club is in the European Super League with all the "we's" and "us's" to go with it.

[John83]

Anyway - the Old Firm being able to join the English system has nothing to do with the UK and everything to do with EU freedom of movement and restrainty of trade laws (there I go again having to explain it all. D'oh...!). Don't underestimate the impact two very high profile clubs jumping from one league to another - regardless of political jurisdictions - may have upon European football. The butterfly effect, and all that...

Oh, I don't underestimate it at all, but I think that specific case is unusual enough that it wouldn't be seen as a clear precident.

EU laws make most of football's regulations seem positively medieval. I don't ever expect to work for a company which will demand a transfer fee be agreed before I can interview with a potential new employer. Football is in a bit of a legal bubble, and there are good and bad things to come from each bit of the current structure falling apart.

[HarpoJoyce]

It's pronouced 'bite'

[bennocelt]

Never happen. Their "support" is not rooted in the sport of football - it's the box of coloured lights in the corner or the living room on their wall of the pub which tells them what to think and feel.

You are making the assumption they understand football. Oirish football supporters have no more understanding of the sport of football than a bacteria in a peta dish is directly involved in the development of a public healthcare strategy. They go were the capillary action draws them. They are not involved at any cognative level.

Irish Premiership supporters are not interested in the game of football and never have been. It's all about their chlidlike minds being spellbound by coloured lights and fast moving cameras. The group think and hive mind psychosis takes care of them from there.

Honestly, there are days I do wonder if the Oirish Premiership brigade are part of some giant CIA/MI6 mind control operation to see just how sheeplike a human being can be made.

They'll all be devoted whatever Brit club is in the European Super League with all the "we's" and "us's" to go with it.

good post
thing is these are the very same fellas that would be all in the bar cheering against England in a major champs

[peadar1987]

Exactly, I got into an argument with a fella on the 606 message board a while back, who said he supported Man United in his profile, but then posted a comment about how Mick McCarthy should never have been Ireland manager because he was a "Tan".