A European super league and global matches are on their way as Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu hails the relentless march of the globalisation of football. He was talking to Oliver Kay of The Times. He suggested that as it stood many matches in the domestic leagues and even in the Champions League were boring for fans [or at least for global television audiences who are now the watchers that matter]. 'So why not one day have a new format of the Champions League which could also be a new super league within Europe?' He admitted that that La Liga didn't want to reduce matches, 'but it's something that will come in time because, in the end, there will be a demand of the fans.' Perhaps those of the top Spanish clubs, but the others? In my view one of the key markers of the progress of globalisation in football will be whether league matches (not friendlies or special tournaments) are played abroad. La Liga is trying to stage Girona's home fixture...