Raphina walking the pitch, on his knees in South American tradition of paying homage to his god for granting his wish.
Top 16 of the Championship. The first few seasons there would be a bit of a gulf in quality, but it would mean an extra 16 clubs getting the Premier League dosh, so it would even out eventually.
A lot of fans have been moaning about Grealish and how he has acted following the trophy win. Personally i think its brilliant. He is not afraid to show some personality and is acting exactly how must young blokes would in the same situation: being a bit of a cocky prick and drinking too much! Fair play to him.
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The end of season play off is so yank and tacky though. Can't stand the idea of finishing top of your league and not being champions.
Winner of each league would still get a trophy, and could both call themselves ‘champions’. It’s just that there would be an extra ‘final’ at the end.
You play the same 3 teams every year, home and away. The other 11 games are done on a kind of rolling rotation. So in a 3 year span you will play all the teams in the NFL at least once in the normal season
Fair play I don’t know much about it. But if you like then yeah. Sounds like they’re on to something then. The Prem is predictable and boring for most teams. Imagine one season being drawn in a division without City, Liverpool, and say, Spurs. All of a sudden things look a bit more open.
Yeah the format of American sports is much better and makes the league way more competitive (salary cap, draft etc). Can’t be done here due to the infrastructure stuff mainly which is a shame as it works much better. Is also why I think the more American owners that take over the bigger clubs the more likely a super league is to happen where they try and recreate an American style league with that
The MLS will continue to grow in popularity over there, especially if the US do well in the 2026 WC. All they will then need is a prestigious competition in which US teams can go up against European ones. Something like the Champions League (and the Europa/Conference) slowly turning into global competitions to take in the US/Chinese/S.American teams.
The FIFA Club World Cup as it currently is, is a complete waste of time. Just daft. It either needs scrapping or expanding to the point that it's actually relevant. Maybe they should allow international teams to compete in the Europa Conference League or whatever its called. Would be interesting to see how clubs from around the world do against the mid-level European ones.
Difficult for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that the seasons played outside Europe don't align at all well. Brazil's Serie A runs April - November, MLS runs Feb - October,
