God’s sake. I just wish that it would go away. It would be so fecking boring, playing the same teams week in week out.
Is it? It works under the aegis of the FA, which is a public institution afaik. The clubs are private businesses, the PL itself is not I don't think.The PL is a private business,
The Premier League is a private company wholly owned by its 20 Member Clubs who make up the League at any one timeIs it? It works under the aegis of the FA, which is a public institution afaik. The clubs are private businesses, the PL itself is not I don't think.
UK isn't subject to EU court of justice anyways, so they can in fact make their own laws about it I believe - the UK, not the PL
But one that still exists and operates within a larger public institution. If the ruling affected the FA then the PL would not be able to just ignore it. They'd have to abandon the FA to do so. Meaning leave the english football pyramidThe Premier League is a private company wholly owned by its 20 Member Clubs who make up the League at any one time
The PL can do lots of things that wouldn't be illegal but would hamper any club that wanted to be in both competitions, scheduling games every mid- week for example, doesn't stop any team from playing but they'd certainly find it hard to compete effectively, anyway it's probably moot, the fans made it quite clear they were against this and it would be a brave English club to backtrack now and an ESL without any English teams in it isn't going to work, probably wouldn't have any German teams either because of the ownership model thereBut one that still exists and operates within a larger public institution. If the ruling affected the FA then the PL would not be able to just ignore it. They'd have to abandon the FA to do so. Meaning leave the english football pyramid
