Is Gary Bettman Running La Liga?
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When I read the news last month that La Liga officials were thinking about pushing back El Clasico from November 28th to Monday November 29th due to elections in Catalonia my first reaction was did NHL commissioner Gary Bettman suddenly learn Spanish and took over La Liga? To be fair I don’t think even Gary Bettman could butcher this one.
I’m not so annoyed that the game was pushed back due to yesterday’s elections, I’m annoyed at the person who originally scheduled El Clasico on November 28th to begin with. You would think with one of the biggest soccer games in the world some more planning would go into showcasing this event. For all the grief I give to English soccer the EPL marketing people are genius. Not a chance they don’t expose such an event to the masses.
While I’m getting things off my chest good on Sevilla Chairman José María del Nido for hitting out against the unfair way TV rights are spread against the 20 teams. Another model where England gets it right is that the base of the payments are spread out depending on the teams league place. The way it should be, not the way La Liga does it and cuts Barcelona and Real Madrid a huge cheque and leave everyone else fighting for scrapes.