🔴 EOTK Insider Opinion: Honestly, what's the point in it all, now? There is no coming back from it. Football has been stolen from the people 🔴

Tired, sad and numb to it all - this is the final straw, isn't it?

Stealing from the Rupert Murdochs to feed the Jeff Bezoses.

That’s what this is, in many ways, isn’t it? The European Super League will no doubt attract monstrous TV rights deals from the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Disney+…

The current players - the UEFAs, FIFAs, the Premier League, and anyone else set to be financially affected by this - will cry that football is being stolen from the people.- but their motives will be as selfish as those before them.

The whole thing is a nice metaphor for how gruesome the capitalism that engulfs us all has become.

Sky, who themselves have stolen, rebranded and profiteered from the game since 1992, are not victims, of course. Neither are BT Sport and anyone else who have marketed football to the point of its own implosion.

The victim is the very idea of it all. It’s the belief and theoretical possibility, rather than the practice, of any side being sportingly capable of climbing to the top. It’s how the pyramid has forever worked, everywhere, always.

The victim is the fans of every side in the country - not just the so-called top six (even if half of the number has never won the European Cup anyway). If the dream of getting to the top cannot be achieved, what’s the point in it all?

What’s the point in any of it if everything outside of the ESL becomes like the BDO in Darts - constantly playing second fiddle to the more glitzy, lucrative PDC?

Do those fans not matter? Do those clubs not matter? There is no trickle-down effect here - the clubs involved in the ESL have done it for the reasons of power and sustainable, guaranteed wealth.

And they haven’t flinched. They didn’t consult managers, players or supporters. They’ve gone and done it - and you know what - they will have been well aware of the likely reaction.

Yet, they did it anyway.

FSG are just the Glazers with better PR, really. They all are. They’re in it for one reason and one reason only: money. The fact money comes with success is lucky for us or they’d have no need to achieve it.

Maybe this will all blow up in their face. Maybe they’ll come out and apologise, having been backed into a corner - but the signs were already there. The ticket pricing, the furloughing of staff, the attempt to copyright the city’s name. This Means More? Do me a favour. I no longer know what any of it means.