Simulacra United: How soccer has become a sporting simulation

As soccer has become financialised, major clubs have moved to reduce risk through increasing the number of European matches and dominating the financial rewards. However, this has created an oligarchy largely protected from sporting competition. And so, if there is no real competition in European football (and consequently increasingly so in domestic leagyues too), football becomes less of a sport and more of a simulation, a spectacle for TV.