Things that last longer than the European Super League
After all the furore, when the so-called big clubs climbed down they caved in completely.
Announced on Sunday, the idea of a European Super League was dead in the water late on Tuesday evening as the six English clubs - under pressure from UEFA, the FA, politicians and anyone who cares about the game of football - capitulated and feebly announced their withdrawal from the elitist project they claimed to be a sporting competition.
Enough has been written about this saga elsewhere that I don't feel the need to add anything to the conversation. It has got me thinking though...there's been talk for some time about a new "Super League" and when it arrives it is so pitifully ill-conceived that it lasts a mere two days.
What lasts longer than the European Super League? Here are some ideas...
* A Test cricket match. Yes, even one England are playing in.
* Morton's Scottish Cup run.
* Cleggmania.
* The Titanic's maiden voyage.
* A weekend train journey from Kyle of Lochalsh to Penzance.
* Lib Dem conference.
* A Labour leadership election (or a Tory/LD one, come to think of it).
* Theresa May
* Anthony Scaramucci's White House career.
* Sam Allardyce's England's career
* Diane James' UKIP leadership.
* Paul Nuttall's UKIP leadership.
* Counting in a US Presidential election.
* Watching the entire series of Friends / Ally McBeal / Inspector Morse (delete according to taste).
* A trip to the supermarket in my dad's old car.
* A Hollywood marriage.
* The Sinclair C5.
* Albion Rovers' current unbeaten run.
* Disbelief that Tottenham Hotspur could ever be involved in an elite competition.
* The sneezing fit I had last year (seriously)
* The popular appeal of Aqua (of Barbie Girl infamy)
* Vanilla's pop career. (Remember them? Thought not.)
* The Pokemon fad.
* VAR reviews (OK, perhaps not, but it certainly feels like it).
* Game of Thrones characters.
Yes, in the end Project Vanity turned out not so much to be "the death of football as we know it" but a shambolic embarrassment. Judging by the logo, the so-called Super League couldn't even afford a decent graphic designer and the failure to communicate a coherent, believable vision was so abysmal it made the Alba Party's campaign look uber-professional by comparison. Who'd have thought it?
Comments
I thought they were called Vanilla Spice?
I wonder what Johnson would have done to stop it? After all he is one of them,for the rich.
The group I'm thinking of were definitely Vanilla... and this was in my era (mid-late 1990s). There may well have been a Vanilla Spice that I've forgotten about or never heard of!
What would Johnson have done? Very little, if anything. After all, there's not a huge amount he can do other than express an opinion - this was a matter for the FA and UEFA rather than central government. But he knows which bandwagons to jump on.
If only he'd taken Covid-19 so seriously in February and March 2020...