Is this really a disaster for English football?
It's certainly a disaster for each club's accountant(s), with millions of pounds in revenue disappearing in 90 minutes. It's great for London with Arsenal and Chelsea having made it through, but ironically it will be the Manchester clubs battling it out for the Premier league title in April/May.
Personally I think that the two Manchester clubs' elimination from the Champions League is a good thing for English football - maybe the game wise up up and get over itself a little. Football in this country has got far to big for its boots in my opinion ans something like this could actually be of benefit in the long run. Less revenue could mean that young English players are preferred to expensive foreign imports as the money won't be there to pay for them, and they will get the opportunity to play alongside the quality of player already here.
I have to say that other than the financial benefits of the Champions League that are an attractive prospect to any club, I can't actually stand the competition, so having less of it on TV is an added bonus for me.
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