I’m not in favour of the massive majority of clubs in the pyramid accommodating a minute % of clubs and players. Klopp’s Kup Kids can play if they have to and City’s £80m sub can get a game over the £100m first choice. The whinging of Klopp and Guardiola has had an impact for sure.
Down to football fans to protest against it, but doubt they will.Need to show these governing bodies who's in charge here, and until the fans do, they will continue to take the piss for the elite.
Then let them play their virtual youth teams... would still guarantee sell outs at the smaller clubs ... and expect more Ben Whites, declining the call of the national team for the self-interests of the elite teams ...
With a Lille luck they’ll get beat and focus on the important task of finishing above Spurs. Also we don’t really want Brummies being showcased on a Europe-wide stage.
I think some of the Championship games have been more exciting than some Prem games this season - I think with SKY showing more EFL games next season, hopefully some of the focus will shift from tthe Prem. Also I think Amazon and the BBC have got some of the CL rights next season, taking away some of TNT's monopoly on it, only a small step, but hopefully other tv braodcasters and streamers jump on this ship, fed up with the rights being owned by expensive subscription channels, I can see why fans do it illegally.
There’s a ludicrous number of EFL televised games from next season in ridiculous slots. Championship will be crap. If Leeds go up I don’t know who they’ll endlessly fap over. It’s already Sky Sports ****ing Leeds.
Well hopefully it saves EFL fans from having to pay £10 a game for TV viewing, and only during international breaks and mid-week days, been ripping us off for ages. I remember when they tried to do this with the Prem during covid and it caused a lot of crying, hence the idea got abandoned.
Think the iFollow thing is being scrapped too. My dad got Prem+ as a kid I remember. 40 games for £40 even then wasn’t awful value but hardly anyone got it.
The FA Cup will no longer have replays from the first round proper with fixtures now set to be played exclusively on weekends. The FA and the Premier League revealed they have reached a new agreement starting from next season for a minimum of six years to "strengthen" the competition with "new and exclusive calendar windows". As part of the changes, the competition will be played without replays from the first round proper which has been agreed "in light of changes to the calendar driven by the expanded UEFA competitions". The FA had already ditched replays from the fifth round onwards. The fourth and fifth rounds plus the quarter-finals will be played without Premier League fixtures taking place on the same weekends. The fourth round will have an extended fixture window from Friday to Wednesday. The final will now take place on the penultimate weekend of the Premier League season, with no top-flight fixtures taking place on the same day or night before. The Premier League has also increased funding to the football pyramid, providing up to an additional £33m for grassroots football. The league will provide up to £133m per season from the 2025-26 season. The mid-season break has been removed from the calendar to allow for a mid-August start date for the Premier League and a longer summer break The end of giant killing and a decent payday for teams not in the top six
