Well, the final is this Saturday, between Chelsea and Bayern Munich.
And with many of each team’s best players sitting the game out on accumulated
yellow or red cards, that means we’ll get to see this scintillating final
played between two depleted teams: awesome! Or, wait…
Can you imagine if American sports did this? The Super Bowl
being played with many of the best players not allowed to play? How about if
the World Series didn’t allow all the best players to play? Would you watch it
then?
I’d like to know exactly who this policy is intended to
punish more: the players, or the fans? It seems to me we all lose with this
plan! Maybe the substitutes and second-stringers who normally wouldn’t get to
play wouldn’t agree, but this seems like a big waste to me! (And isn’t the big
final game the wrong venue for the backup players to be starting anyway?)
After all, did we all really follow this whole entire
extended tournament just to see two second-string teams play in the
all-important final? That just seems a bit intellectually-challenged to me.
(Maybe when people stop buying tickets ahead of time, UEFA will change the
rules to make more sense. I mean, that is to say: they never will.)
