I don't really care about the inequity of football clubs, that ship has sailed.
But beyond the financial inequity football has always maintained a level of competitive integrity. By allowing permanent qualification into the competition to a handful of teams you are ingraining that inequity to the founding clubs. Regardless of the morality of that, it's fudgeing boring. One of the biggest issues with sports like Super Rugby is if your team isn't winning there's virtually nothing to play for, so there's no tension or care for different results.
It's worth noting that the league brings with it spending caps. That isn't in the best interest of fans, that's in the best interest of owners who are now guaranteed profits.
Back to competitive integrity - with the clubs controlling all aspects of the competition, how long before we start seeing "TV timeouts" in order to run ad breaks, like they do in Basketball and NFL?
Like these American sports, owners of lesser teams can invest very little knowing that the value of the asset isn't in being successful but being one of the founding members with a guaranteed revenue source.
But beyond the financial inequity football has always maintained a level of competitive integrity. By allowing permanent qualification into the competition to a handful of teams you are ingraining that inequity to the founding clubs. Regardless of the morality of that, it's fudgeing boring. One of the biggest issues with sports like Super Rugby is if your team isn't winning there's virtually nothing to play for, so there's no tension or care for different results.
It's worth noting that the league brings with it spending caps. That isn't in the best interest of fans, that's in the best interest of owners who are now guaranteed profits.
Back to competitive integrity - with the clubs controlling all aspects of the competition, how long before we start seeing "TV timeouts" in order to run ad breaks, like they do in Basketball and NFL?
Like these American sports, owners of lesser teams can invest very little knowing that the value of the asset isn't in being successful but being one of the founding members with a guaranteed revenue source.