Just been thinking, with regards to football and the strange, confusing ways in which the industry as it is now becoming, works, whether that, if it were not for the events of the Heysel disaster, we would be seeing a different football team on top of the football tower?
Now this is not just because I am an Everton fan that is bitter about the club being barred from the Champions League after winning the old English First Division and the Cup Winners Cup in the mid-80's, in fact quite the opposite, with the team now being back on the rise and on the verge of breaking in to the 'Top 4' (although recent performances leave room for improvement) after a successful run in the Eufa Cup. Just curiosity, considering that at the time of the incidents in Heysel, Everton were arguably, along with the gobshites across the park (as much as it pains me to say that) firmly on the top of the pile in terms of domestic football. And following victory in the Cup Winners Cup, and league success, we would have been entered into the Champions League. One merely has to speculate as to how well the team would have done. Most would agree that chances of success there would have been high, which begs the question, we do well in the Champions League, perhaps even win it, therefore gain more recognition across Europe, and indeed the world, therefore attract more quality players, therefore get more success in the league and Europe, therefore more recognition and so on and so forth, until we reach today, and perhaps it is a different team from the North West of England (no, not you kopites) that are the most well known team in the world?
Funny that, isn't it?
Anyway, it would appear that I am toeing the line of controversy now, so i'll just leave that thought with you.
Tuesday 8 April 2008
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