If the Everton deal goes through the PL will have two thirds foreign owners, the exact amount required to successfully carry a vote. Foreign owners have already tried four years ago to vote for no relegation, when it was defeated, so is it now a distinct possibility? And don't say 'it wouldn't be allowed to happen', all it needs is the two thirds vote and then nobody can do anything about it.
I'd like to think some of them would recognise the huge damage to the Premier League brand that would result. You'd have a hell of a lot of meaningless fixtures, meaning Sky and BT Sport (plus the BBC) would surely be unhappy.
I'm not aware of any vote to scrap relegation from the Premier League, there was an interview with the head of LMA in 2011, who said he believed that some American and Asian owners favoured making it a closed shop, but I don't remember it ever being voted on, or even taken remotely seriously by anyone.
It was the main sports headline on R4's Today programme at 8.30am this morning and the interviewee referenced the defeated vote four years ago. I cant believe they forgot to tell you about it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...care-mongering-relegation-claims-2373949.html "Wigan chairman Dave Whelan insisted he would pull his team out of the Premier League if promotion and relegation was scrapped in the English top flight." Well, he certainly managed that, and then some!
Whilst you have sponsors pouring money in at the current levels in support of the current competition and format, and this is the primary attraction for foreign buyers, any likelihood of any such rule change is minimal unless Scudamore see's it as his opportunity to create Premier Leagues 1 & 2, and the top clubs pull away from the Football League?
There is, 8.30am news on today's R4's Today programme. In all seriousness, do you expect everything discussed and voted on at meetings between PL owners to make the papers?
Something as big as this would make the papers! There was something rumbling a few years ago, but can't remember when or what it was about!
I'm sorry BCC, but this would've absolutely made the papers back then. It's a ****ing huge story that the majority of English football fans would care about. Mainly because the majority support the 72 (and more going below the FL), not the 20.
Why are you saying sorry to me? This isnt my story that I'm breaking - I'm trying to start a discussion on a football story talked about on a respected - actually probably THE most respected - daily UK news programme. Isnt this a discussion board about football? If you don't believe their story, put a call in to Today and ask what their source is.
Fear of relegation for 7-8 clubs the season before the 'closed shop' policy starts will ensure a NO vote
I can't be arsed linking all the articles, but I'm surprised those of you arguing with Bummers couldn't find them given your expertise in this area... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ers-want-scrap-Premier-League-relegation.html Yeah its the mail, but seriously, rather than arguing bollocks, why not just discuss the point at hand?
Read the fourth post you divvy. There's little likelihood of a vote on it, never mind a vote being successful.
I imagine all owners, foreign or British citizens, will make a decision based on their own business needs. I doubt their nationality affects those business needs. So the nationality of the majority of PL owners is irrelevant to the outcome of any future vote.
The point of the interview was that it's another American owner and they don't have relegation there, plus apparently Roman Abramovich was pissing his pants when relegation looked a very real possibility at one stage (still?) and he's got a £180m wage bill.
