Will Creating the Super League Render a Teams’ Status Moot?
Will Creating the Super League Render a Teams’ Status Moot? An article from Financial Times is about a plan underway to build a new super league for European football that sits above the Champions League, backed by financial powerhouses. In Europe, each country has its own domestic league made up of 15-30 teams. If there are 20 in a league, a team will play all the other teams twice. The team with the most points at the end is crowned the champion of the domestic league, then the top two teams of each domestic league play in a special competition. In the plans to create a new super league for the biggest and wealthiest teams, there is debate about what the qualifications should be—maybe it’s not about who wins the domestic league, but should be based on popularity, size of spectator base, and the amount of money a team has. This raises a deep question. What makes a team a team? What makes Liverpool Football Club, Liverpool Football Club? No matter what happens, people from Liverpool are going to support their team. What would happen if Liverpool Football Club accepted a $20 billion investment from the government of Abu Dhabi to relocate and play…