Football is more of a TV event than ever. That makes fans in stadiums more like participants in a production than observers of a show. So instead of bumping prices up, maybe clubs should do the opposite. And make tickets…free? nyti.ms/3vWpS8V

The idea that a luxury tax is a way to help everyone compete with the Cartel Clubs is either naive or disingenuous. It’s a way to replace some of those clubs, or add one or two to them, and then prevent anyone else competing with them. Not a remedy, just a different poison.

If FSG do genuinely want this to happen, then the starting point for the conversation would probably have to be offering him a stake - a small stake, obviously, but an actual stake - in FSG itself.

Funnily enough, in light of the Liverpool documentary news, I wrote this last week about Being: Liverpool, the ur-text of the genre. It made two mistakes: being early, and actually telling you something. nytimes.com/2024/01/27/wor…

This is outstanding and I wish I’d written it. (I think it’s on a free token so no paywall)

It is possible to have football without an endless chase for money, without nation state ownership, without multiclub projects, without everything being at the mercy of TV, without VAR. Sweden has tried it for 10 years. It’s not perfect, but it works. nyti.ms/49FFP2r

It is possible to have football without an endless chase for money, without nation state ownership, without multiclub projects, without everything being at the mercy of TV, without VAR. Sweden has tried it for 10 years. It’s not perfect, but it works. nyti.ms/49FFP2r