Shorter Premier League: Our fans like us too much! Let’s fix that.

Premier League goes after its own fans because that worked so well for the music industry

This seems awfully dumb and shortsighted. It seems that people really love sharing GIFs and Vines of goals in the Premier League, the biggest football league in the world. They really do! Hell, I’ve searched out particular goals on Vine before, especially during this summer’s World Cup.

Why do people like making and sharing GIFs of Premier League goals so much? Because the effing love the Premier League. So, what should the Premier League do with all of these people from all over the world who love the Premier League so much?

They should develop tech to track them down and kill their buzz. Remember how well this worked out for the music industry back before people were socially connected and talking about all the stuff they love and all the stuff they hate?

Yeah.

But tracking down and harassing millions of your own most loyal fans must be much easier than, say, I don’t know, maybe offering and branded and authorized alternative to some chump shooting a TV replay on his iPhone.

There just seems to be about a billion ways to solve this “problem” for the Premier League and they appear to have chosen the absolute worst one, the one that has already proven to be a stone-cold loser.