I don’t actually agree that the national team would be at threat as there is a precedent for this kind of thing both with the Welsh teams and elsewhere in Europe.

I also think that, leaving aside the Atlantic League for a second, if the Old Firm went down south you would see clubs from Portugal trying to get into Spain and Belgian and Dutch clubs looking elsewhere. FIFA are unlikely to be able dissolve all those national teams. Any attempts or noises FIFA and UEFA make are just them trying to close the stable door after the horse has done one.

The big clubs are the power brokers in football now. If the big English clubs want the Old Firm, or the big Spanish clubs want Sporting, Porto or Benfica then it will happen.

That won’t of course stop the continued devaluing of international football but that’s another story.