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I totally agree with your opening paragraph and equally agree that everyone anger is understandable. I don’t subscribe to this viewpoint that Levy was bullied or left with no choice, he absolutely had a choice and in my mind he made the lazy choice, which is difficult to forgive. However, has he made the other choice, I believe that there would be a huge overlap between the people currently damning him got going with the ESL and the people criticising him for letting the other big clubs find yet another advantage over us and being small time. Maybe I’m being unfair, and equally I imagine I’d be typing posts to mitigate his actions whatever he chose, which I guess makes me just as bad, as that’s me.An idea my arse, it was more than that, much more. It was a blatant attempt to make football a money making machine to the exclusion of the rest of football.
So the anger felt and expressed by football fans pretty much all over Europe, if not the world, fans, players, managers, pundits, journalists, everyone, all of that was driven by Sky and UEFA. Nothing to do with the rampant self serving desires of a handful of men getting a reaction that says we won't suffer it.
So I don't think I will calm down. Levy can do one and doing it yesterday would have been nice.
Don’t get me wrong, i hate how many he got it wrong and the damage that’s been done, but we’ve pulled out now and as a supporter which ultimately is pretty unimportant and unable to affect anything anyway, I’d rather just watch the matches, hope we do well, hope we play some decent football and forget everything else. Football was far more fun when I was a kid and I had no idea who owned what clubs and only knew the players names, nothing else. I’d rather just go back to that.