by Starbridge42 » Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:11 am
Liverpool is actually partly to blame for the Champions League. We are a member of G-14 and as such we lobied for the creation of the champions league along with the likes of Man U, Real, Barca, Lyon, Milan, Juventus and Marseille and we were amongst those threatening UEFA with a break-away european league featuring all of the biggest clubs. G-14, not Champions League is football's murderer because we caused the creation of the Champions League, we created the system of top 4's and so forth in order to avoid having to fight for a solitary champions league spot. G-14 is the monster that is killing international football. G-14 uses the law to do it too. Football is unique in the way it works with contracts and so forth and G-14 has highlighted that and is beginning to use the law to destroy the game of football. At the highest level its no longer about beating your opponents on the park, its about putting them out of business.
I didn't like Italy, it was like living in a foreign country - Ian Rush
'In most associations half of the committee does all the work while the other half does nothing. I am pleased to report that in this football club it is the reverse.' - Liverpool Echo