Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: European Superleague
From: ioffe@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:00:40 GMT
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

pasand@Mari.Unit.NO (Per Annar Sandaune) writes:
: In article <1992Dec9.174615.7190@st-andrews.ac.uk>, dmg@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Gill) writes:
: |>
: |> Fynns Plan from last year:
: |>
: |> A Premier Division containing 10 teams:
: |>
: |> England:  LeedsU
: |> France:   Marseille
: |> Germany:  Bor. Dortmund
: |>           Stuttgart
: |> Holland:  PSV
: |> Italy:    Milan
: |>           Juventus
: |> Portugal: Porto
: |> Spain:    Barcelona
: |>           Real Madrid
: |>
: |> 3 Regional Leagues:
: |>
: |> North                South                      East
: |> Belgium:Brugge       Croatia:Hajduk Split       Bulgaria:CSKA Sofia
: |> Denmark:Frem Copen.  Greece:AEK Athens          Czechoslovakia:Slov.Brat.
: |> England:ManU         Italy:Torino               Georgia:Dinamo Tbilisi
: |> France:Monaco        Portugal:Benfica           Hungary:Ferencvaros
: |> Germany:Eint.Frankf. Spain:Atletico Madrid      Poland:Lech Posnan
: |> Holland:Ajax         Switzerland:Sion           Romania:Din.Bucharest
: |> Scotland:Rangers     Turkey:Besiktas            Russia:Moscow Dinamo
: |> Sweden:IFK Gotenb.   Yugoslavia:Red Star        Ukraine:Dinamo Kiev
: |>
:
: I guess that the idea with this kind of league is to include all european countries?
: Yugoslavia no longer exist, so Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia should all have one team
: in one of the regional leagues, as well as the rest of old Yugoslavia.
:
: Also, i notice that my beloved Norway is not included in your list.  Why?
:
: |> The European matches would continue to be midweek with teams playing in
: |> their national leagues at the weekend.Teams would withdraw from 'lesser'
: |> National tournements (Like the league Cups in England and Scotland).
:
: This would mean that a lot of extra matches were introduced to each team involved,
: while the other teams of each national league would have the same number of matches.
: Also, there would be a lot of problems, as most countries have their national cup matches
: played on Wednesdays.
:
:
: |> One big problem is that it gives enormous advantage to those teams doing
: |> well when the league is set up, and so getting into it.
:
: |> Also it will increase the difference between the richest and the others
: |> in National Leagues:
:
: That's why the biggest clubs in Europe are so interested in this kind of league.
:
:
: |> As I said before I think that something like this plan will happen in
: |> the next few years: what does everyone else think about it?
: |>
: |>
: |> David.
:
: Well, do you really think so?  I don't.
:
:
: Sandis
: Trondheim, Norway



I hope it will not happen and this paper will go to the place for it -
watercloset.

This kind of league is simply unfair. The beauty of football is that
ball is round and the field is plane and that bit of luck is needed.
But not only luck. Willpower also. And then we can see such a sensations
as Barcelona - CSKA(Moskow) 2:3; Torino - Dinamo(Moskow) 1:2(Or what
ever it was) and so on. Also in footbal all teams should be treated as
equal (Remember last summer EC? Denmark wasn't qualified to participate
in final!!!!). Such a league will kill all the beauty of football.

Also if now it's interesting to watch , say, Leeds United - Shtutgart
in ECC, because we know that here loser is trully loser, it will not be
interesting to watch the game of the same teams, when they will play for
getting , say, 8 or 10th place in europien league.

Also the division wasn't fair. And can't be fair. Fair is to include
to such a league top 7 teams of every National league. But it will be
something like 100-150 teams in league.

And it still will not be fair!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nick.

Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA