Test cricket is similar - maybe only 70 balls/hour, lasts 7 hours per day for up to 5 days - and is a brilliant setting for chatting, eating and drinking with friends because of the tedious periods of…nothingness…that punctuate the compelling drama, and it’s still the best (ie most complex) team sport ever.
Having got the ESL accepted it would be a small step for the yank owners to make their clubs play some home games in America. Kroenke has just built a $6Bn stadium in LA, I believe. I’m sure he’d like to see more events there.
Why are the Manchester teams the most valuable? Is it just as simple as London having so many different teams that those teams are splitting a bigger pie so many more ways, where with Manchester there’s just the two behemoths?
No, it’s coincidental. Utd are the most successful and well known EPL club side and have huge support around the world; City are quite different with a newish sugar daddy owner with effectively limitless funds. They were a big club until the 70s and were relegated a few times but worked their way back up before the oil owner appeared.
What about the American fans who only started watching this year because online sportsbetting was legalized? Are they not fans too? We just want an 84oz pepsi, a couple big macs and the world’s greatest athletes performing for us every weeknight at 3am GMT. Is that too much to ask?
I’m trying to contextualize the drama of the last 72 hours for my american sports (non-football) friends and really struggling.
This whole thing seems completely insane to me. The initial plan, the backpeddling, the H A R S H response from EUFA including being willing to burn down the CURRENT champions league semis