European Super League Reaction With Rory Smith

The Anfield Wrap

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Neil Atkinson is joined by The New York Times' Rory Smith to talk about the European Super League, what it means for Liverpool and the rest of football... Rory wrote on Twitter: "I don't think it is necessarily true that national leagues are the natural conclusion of football, or that the Champions League (as it stands, or as it is about to be) is somehow perfect and unyielding. I think it's important football has space to change and, ideally, improve." "But even to someone not unilaterally opposed to the idea, this one falls down in two ways. One is the permanence: not because it doesn't protect the pyramid - the current status quo doesn't protect the pyramid either, nobody on either side actually gives a shit about the pyramid." "But because the 'pyramid', here, basically represents the pretty basic sporting principle that attainment is a direct result of effort. You have to earn your spot, every year. The permanence of the 15 founders in a super league contradicts that." For more on the European Super League news as well as reaction to all the news and events that matter to you, including interviews with and documentaries featuring LFC players and staff past and present, subscribe to TAW Player… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:04.4	It's a special to Neil Atkinson and Rory Smith, you know what it's about.
0:07.2	We're not going to waste your time.
0:08.8	We're going to get stuck right in.
0:10.5	By the way, Legacy Fans is indeed the greatest appeal session no one's ever heard
0:14.8	but let's say we'll move along as we go all the way through it Rory
0:18.4	it's been threatened for years and it's felt like a threat for years this doesn't feel like a threat. No this one's not this
0:24.3	one's got a website so you know it's real if something's got a website then it's
0:29.6	happening the yeah listen if I was listening listening to quite a lot of stuff this morning as I was walking the dog in what proved to be my one bit of peace and quiet of the day, which is obviously spurs then went and sat merino, because there's not enough to do. The, I think the initial reaction was, we're kind of conditioned into, there's a little bit of boy who cried wolf
0:48.8	about it, do you know what I mean?
0:50.1	We're conditioned to think, what they're actually trying to do, you should
0:52.2	carry the limiter and stuff doing it yesterday, what they're trying to think this is what they're actually trying to do. You'll Gary the Linneker and stuff doing it yesterday.
0:54.0	What they're trying to do is get more control out of you AFFA.
0:56.3	They want commercial control of the Revamp Champions League.
0:58.5	They want this that and the other.
1:00.0	This isn't like that.
1:00.7	This is real.
1:01.3	They are committed to it.
1:03.8	They've worked it all out, they've filed the legal papers.
1:07.0	Certainly Yuva Man United have resigned from the European Clubs Association,
1:09.8	which is a massive step.
1:11.4	So of Chelsea and Liverpool, I think think at the time I'm talking.
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