FrancoisD wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 14:43
Years of Dragonite calling domestic leagues "glorified neighborhood friendlies" (ie far less important than the preliminary round of CL between San Marin and Andorra) seem to have brainwashed too many people on this forum, Overgame, I advise you to just ignore their stupid rants against "unfairness" of a system where Gibraltar is not given the same treatment as Spain.
1 - I call them glorified training sessions
2 - games between teams from Andorra and San Marino where none actually makes it to the group stages also mean nothing to me, despite being an international match, and so hierarchically above a glorified training session
3 - people are free to make their own conclusions. And for every forum member that actually uses his head, there are dozens of parrots that just repeat the things they hear without questioning them
4 - I agree with
@bjkman1903 that all teams should play qualifiers. Or if some teams "deserve" to be exempt from qualifiers and others don't, I disagree with how UEFA finds one set of teams and the other. To me there's a lot more merit in winning 1 CL match than in winning 100 GTS
5 - The "unfairness" doesn't stop in how teams qualify, it continues in other things like revenue distribution, refereeing, etc.
6 - The way I see it, "brainwashing" is having people in Tunisia watching a Wolverhampton vs Fulham English GTS. They should watch their local clubs like Espérance, Étoile du Sahel, etc, but they're "brainwashed" and spend time and money in something meaningless that they believe it's a "top top must watch"
7 - Last but not least, I don't agree with simpletons that have decades of accumulated frustrations because the "precious" doesn't get the results that they'd like it to have, and therefore want to "destroy everything" so that others will also finally feel the despair that they do, and every single thing like this so-called "super league" is the solution to every problem
My remarks are constructive, with the goal of improving things, and more often than not they end up becoming true.