“Let the ignorance flow…..”
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You should understand something Max. We Yanks are indeed very ignorant relative to English Football. Yes… guilty as charged. But what I’m afraid you’ve missed….. we don’t care about English Football. Actually, I think hearing the reports of the Drunken English Football Hooligans traveling around Europe and leaving a wake of destruction and mayhem everywhere they go is far more entertaining.

Im pretty sure the world cup is bigger than the super bowl…

European , and I’m not.

Your soccer system is corrupt & plays you suckers for fools .

( see Major League Baseball )

If you’re a fan of a mid-level team, you accept the fact that the system is rigged against you unless the team is sold to a Russian with more money than sense.

Actually soccer is a very English term. That is what the game was called by the nobles and upper class, while football was the term used by the working class peoples.

@ Max

I’m shocked that you would even hint (regardless of the fact that it is true) that there is any sport or league larger than the NFL. I have been told over and over that there is no more popular sport on the planet and no bigger event than the Super Bowl. In fact I am astonished the PFT censors let your comment pass with such blasphemous statements.

English Football governs itself but they belong to the governing body of Europe which is UEFA. English teams compete at UEFA Competitions versus other European Leagues such as the Spanish La Giga and Italy’s Serie A. So English Football must comply with some UEFA regulations to be eligible to play in UEFA competitions.

An individual league such as the English FA will be committing suicide if they were to impose a salary cap in their domestic league, since the best players in the world will go to Spain, Italy, Germany, anywhere without a salary cap. The only way this works is if FIFA not UEFA imposes a global salary cap.

I say FIFA because UEFA won’t do it, because then leagues outside of UEFA will then be able to grow and eventually have a competitive advantage against them, since they won’t have salary caps. In this scenario UEFA would most likely be worried about the MLS growing and attracting the world’s best players.

It has to be a global cap. Thats the only way it works. Maybe it can be Tiered club system with a max ceiling for each tier.

But all of that is a lot of policing and Fans really don’t care… Fans rather it stay the way it is. We want to continue to see the best players play together consistently. Right now the brand of European Football is of the highest quality, and there are enough superstars and enough money in the game to have multiple powerhouses in each league.

Imagine that every league in Europe has a Superbowl for Soccer. Now Imagine all those SuperBowl Winners from each country going against each other in one competition, that is what UEFA Champions League is, and its big!

Let the ignorance flow…..

1) “English Soccer” is a totally American term. It’s called football, bloody hell.

2) Kraft is the cheapest owner in MLS. The Revs suck. Terrible team. They’re in the red too, at least, they used to be. So it’s not like his MLS franchise is doing much better than the Man City’s and Man United’s of the world.

So many times over here in England, you hear about people ‘investing in English football’. You don’t ‘invest’, you spend. Don’t expect to get back what you can’t afford to lose.

Success in football (soccer) totally depends upon how much money you have to spend.

Let this be a warning to all those NFL fans who want to see the salary cap removed so that Jerry Jones or Dan Snyder can ‘buy’ the Superbowl each year.

The NFL and its salary cap system ensure a wonderful level of freshness and close competetion, and long may it continue.

The NFL is a weird business model and I’m glad it’s not like the rest of business, but I do think it’s necessary for this sport to be like that if it wants to stay viable to all of the fans.

Mr Kraft’s biggest asset is his big picture mentality. Pats were far far from a “good investment” when he bought them, He MADE them a good investment. Usually business decisions made with any sentimentality backfire, but Mr Kraft made owning his beloved hometown team work.