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Originally Posted by dkgo
It is nonsensical to suggest that the existence of Dorchester Town has any relevance to a discussion of balance in major professional sport
World soccer is dominated by oil oligarchs taking over teams.
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Oil oligarchs spending their own money to give fans a better team is better than American sports teams pocking fan's money and create rules for them to field mediocre teams and still compete.
College sports teams don't pocket the profit to enrich the owners either. Most of them run at about even or losing money. That's better than the pro teams.
Going back to the Celtic case, the problem the winning is not as awarding is because the team is stuck in a secondary league with no way up, while losing most of its European games. There also seems no hope for the team to get better. Ajax dominates domestically also, but they have much more fun in Europe.
It'd be much easier for Celtic fans to enjoy the wins, if they are more ignorant about soccer in other countries. MLS fans can't feel too serious about whatever winning, unless they only know MLS and no European football. This kind of thing is possible in the US, not really possible in Scotland.