The recent international situation is also a sudden change, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia has unconsciously lasted for a week, and for the Western countries, they are obviously more supportive of their bridgehead Ukraine, just when the battle in the front battlefield is fierce, these countries also show a sympathetic and supportive attitude on the surface, but behind it is actually "to provide all help except help", which can't help but make people feel very hypocritical.
And this double-standard action is also spread to the football world, as the world's highest revenue league, as early as 2017 their league revenue reached 4.5 billion euros, this figure to 2020 although affected by the epidemic but probably only higher, according to the Daily Mail report the Premier League officially made a decision to donate 1 million pounds to Ukraine, and decided to interrupt the transmission of signals to Russia, they chose to use this way to express support for Ukraine, And strongly condemned Russia's actions.
In this statement, the Premier League officials pointed out that the Clubs of the Premier League unanimously decided to agree to suspend the agreement with Russian broadcasters, and according to the Daily Telegraph, the Premier League had previously bought the broadcast rights to the Russian broadcaster Rambler, the biggest owner of the Russian company is Russia's largest bank Sberbank, which is controlled by the Russian government, so it is included in the Sanctions List of the British Government, and the Premier League has to make compromises under the whirling. This was done before the agreement expired 3 months away, but it also cost them £6 million in revenue.
As early as last week, the Premier League was the first league to support Ukraine, they not only posted a statement on social media to directly express their support for Ukraine, and then made some "tricks" at the entrance ceremony, they arranged for the captains of the two teams to wear armbands with the color of the Ukrainian flag when they appeared, but there were also some people who expressed their disapproval of such behavior, such as Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola, who directly said at the press conference that the Premier League did not express support when there was a war in some other parts of the world At this time, it is in a hurry to stand up, which is obviously a bit out of place.
I have to say that Guardiola can achieve such a brilliant coaching career for a reason, whether in Barca or Bayern or Manchester City he is a winner in life, the most important of which is his emotional intelligence and very positive three views, after he published this paragraph, I don't know how these senior executives in the Premier League will feel, so double standard, in the Premier League.