| European dreams - Possible away travel ban 08:02 - Oct 24 with 2508 views | ChrisNW6 |
My number one bucket list dream is to follow QPR away in one of the three European club competitions. I was too young in the 70s and early 80s and had to make do with trips to Highbury. Then the Scousers ruined my dreams further getting English clubs banned. Managed to get to the Ibiza cup final but away travel in Europe now seem an evermore distant dream.
European bodies are looking at the ECO footprint of 1000 games a season with an average travelling distance of 1000 miles. A ban on away travel is a real possibility and the format of the competitions is being discussed. Next seasons CL format is expanding and creating a bigger ECO issue.
Could this be the writing on the wall of the European midweek jolly up?
Probably safe for a few more seasons but could we be looking at the US NFL model where away travel is not really a thing?
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| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 08:10 - Oct 24 with 2467 views | Toast_R |
The new CL format looks absolutely ridiculous but this is what the big clubs want, Persoanlly , I think you take the fans out of the live football equation, then its the first nail in the coffin. I can see the interest dwindling pretty quickly. Good for the domestic competitions though. |  | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 08:40 - Oct 24 with 2411 views | GaryBannister86 |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 08:10 - Oct 24 by Toast_R |
The new CL format looks absolutely ridiculous but this is what the big clubs want, Persoanlly , I think you take the fans out of the live football equation, then its the first nail in the coffin. I can see the interest dwindling pretty quickly. Good for the domestic competitions though. |
Fans going to the games are just an irritation to them. All they care about is the plastic fan taking selfie videos of themselves on the sofa, crying at the Champions League theme tune when Liverpool are playing "always supported them, innit", who loves VAR because it adds to the drama and spends £20 a night on TV packages.
Modern football will eat itself, if it hasn't already. |  | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 08:44 - Oct 24 with 2391 views | SK_hoops |
Don't worry, we won't get there in any of our lifetimes. | | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 08:53 - Oct 24 with 2350 views | TheChef |
Don't worry soon you won't be allowed to travel anywhere. Never mind for the football. |  |
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| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 10:24 - Oct 24 with 2235 views | themodfather |
before screwing footy over they should look at formula one and their ECO carbon footprint and years/decades of pollution. oh sorry but sponsored by oil companies. | | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 11:29 - Oct 24 with 2173 views | QPunkR |
I mean, the possibility exists this *could* happen, but I've heard not even a whisper about it. There would be mutiny akin to when the European Super League jolted into its thankfully brief existence - but across larger swathes of Europe |  |
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| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 13:14 - Oct 24 with 2055 views | ChrisNW6 |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 11:29 - Oct 24 by QPunkR |
I mean, the possibility exists this *could* happen, but I've heard not even a whisper about it. There would be mutiny akin to when the European Super League jolted into its thankfully brief existence - but across larger swathes of Europe |
Yes, doubt anything major will happen until people's views on airplane travel in general changes. Putting teams in groups based on location and encouraging greener modes of transport will probably be the first steps.
BBC article below
What could more European football mean for planet? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67159156 | | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 13:16 - Oct 24 with 2044 views | Hayesender |
We won't even be able to travel outside our towns or cities if those in charge get their way |  |
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| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 13:38 - Oct 24 with 2006 views | Juzzie |
Bunch of hypocrites don't have a moral bone in their body.
Staging tournaments spread across different continents then saying fans can't travel around Europe due to eco reasons?? Cnts.
I can understand away travel in the NFL not being big in the US 'cos it's so big and there are so few teams but for football in the UK and rest of Europe it's a very big deal.
Fk it, ban package holidays next. Just go the whole hog and make everyone not allowed to travel more than 200 miles from home. |  | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 13:46 - Oct 24 with 1980 views | Northernr |
Regular topic of conversation in the Crown - what's your dream Europa Conference League group.
I would absolutely kill for just one season of following QPR in europe. nearest I'm likely to get any time soon is Newport County. |  | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 14:46 - Oct 24 with 1900 views | ChrisNW6 |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 13:46 - Oct 24 by Northernr |
Regular topic of conversation in the Crown - what's your dream Europa Conference League group.
I would absolutely kill for just one season of following QPR in europe. nearest I'm likely to get any time soon is Newport County. |
Well you've seen us win in SK Vorwaerts Steyr 🍻 | | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 15:01 - Oct 24 with 1869 views | Northernr |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 14:46 - Oct 24 by ChrisNW6 |
Well you've seen us win in SK Vorwaerts Steyr 🍻 |
The one that Gareth said was an enormous positive because it could have been 10-1? Against a team recently relegated to the third tier of Austrian football, playing in a two sided ground with a large church for a main stand and a giant tyre fire for a home end?
High point of the season as it turned out. | | | |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 17:14 - Oct 24 with 1767 views | derbyhoop |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 15:01 - Oct 24 by Northernr |
The one that Gareth said was an enormous positive because it could have been 10-1? Against a team recently relegated to the third tier of Austrian football, playing in a two sided ground with a large church for a main stand and a giant tyre fire for a home end?
High point of the season as it turned out. |
Don't knock it. Its the best you're likely to get this season. |  |
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| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 17:19 - Oct 24 with 1758 views | kensalriser |
| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 13:16 - Oct 24 by Hayesender |
We won't even be able to travel outside our towns or cities if those in charge get their way |
No we won't be able to as so many places will be under water thanks to serial failure by governments in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry to deal with climate change. |  |
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| European dreams - Possible away travel ban on 17:29 - Oct 24 with 1748 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Seen Rangers in Dundee and Edinburgh...seeing the Rs in a foreign country aint all that! |  |
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