http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27327502 I can't see a single positive tweet about this from a Football League fan, and very little support from others. Surely if this goes through we're as good as ****ed?
So what if, as an example, Notts Forest are in the Championship and the Forest B team win promotion from the B league to league 1, and then get promoted to the Championship?...Forest firsts play Forest B.........wtf? Biggest load of shyte for ages!
It'll work like the B team systems in Europe. In your scenario, even if Forest B were to win the league they would not get promoted, and the next team down gets their spot. Also, if Forest were to get relegated to the same league as Forest B then Forest B would have to be relegated. As a part of the changes, B teams won't be able to reach the Championship. This means that both Bristol City and Bristol Rovers are likely to be in the firing line of Premier League B teams, and that we'll soon be hosting Leicester B and taking about £500 from their guaranteed fantastic away support. Also, all teams in the Football League will be banned from signing non EU players. If those rules existed ten years ago we wouldn't have been able to sign Adriano Basso.
I can't see this ever being ratified It belongs in the recyc bin with the USA's bigger goals and penalties at the end of football matches
I've signed it! ****ing joke, if they want a "B team league" then they should start their own divisions that doesn't interrupt our current divisions. As someone said, the lower league teams in spain are going bankrupt and and finding it hard to survive because of the B teams. The hierarchy don't care about us in the lower leagues so they aren't assed if we go bust, so long as we have a few English players coming through. What they should be doing is making it a rule to have 5 HOME GROWN players in the starting 11 for every team in England. Everyone from 12th in the premier league down would be fine with this.
It's the thin end of the proverbial wedge. I have been saying for years that the game has only changed for the worse and the idiots who came up with this garbage only confirm my fears not just for the future of the game but more so for the smaller clubs. Like general society today the rich will get richer and to hell with the rest. I have officially given up on any sanity returning to the sport of football as I loved it.
sadly this will be the future of English football I am getting really pi$$ed off with these big clubs the sooner Man C Man U Chelsea Arsenal and Liverpool **** off and form a breakaway European super league the better
IF ever this gets the go ahead can see no hope for other teams ,there be premier then b teams in top two divisions rest no where . these people who live on cloud want to listen to true fans not only to the rich clubs
Please include Tottingham and Everton in that list. I note that Stoke are adding their weight to this. They should remember how the chairman of Bradford City wanted no relegation from the Prem as soon as they got up there. They then dropped like a stone but I'm sure that they'd like to go back one day. But if no relegation had been brought in after they went down the would be well and truly f***ed. The only way to get more home grown players in Premier squads is to limit the number of foreigners voluntarily because it ain't possible compulsorily under current legislation.
Greg Dyke has a plan. England has the best league system in the world but a weak national team. His plan is to ruin club football so that they are both crap!!
I reckon we should start a Bristol league, oh wait we can't we only have one team in the league now Signed it
To say im livid with this idea of the FA is an understatement. This will kill the football league off and kill the sport I love. Maybe the clubs should just tell the FA where to go and start over with a new FA not connected to the current bunch of scum.
Greg Dyke is a bloody menace. He took over the BBC and changed things so that they didn't offer development umbrellas to promising script writers and play writes, so that the BBC could no longer assume the world forefront in making comedy series or dramas (you know, Dad's Army, It aint half hot mum, Only fools and horses, Blackadder, Red Dwarf…..the list is endless). Now he is starting to weave his magic on our national game. Stick 'im in the bloody tower
The premier league has been too dominant is this. Do we really want to be having games V Stoke B? NO. Sky by showing premier league games has introduced plastic fans to passionless money bound clubs.
Think you have got it spot on OTIB- That's the most sensible idea I have seen in all of this. Apparently, this is needed as Prem teams don't get enough competitive football for their youngsters- Spurs as far as I am aware have sent theirs out on loan for years. We had a certain Stephen Caulker and Danny Rose who are both now established Prem players and clearly have benefitted from going out on loan, at the same time, I could tell at a glance that Caulker would be an asset for us. The champions league is now seen as much higher priority than internationals. England had sold out years ago to that idea and are now wondering why as a national team that we are 2nd rate.
Agree with everything said here. If the FA want to sort out the England team. do it with the premier league, don't expect the Football League to be the whipping boys of the rich clubs and suffer the consequences. They use young teams in the dutch 2nd division and a number of "town" clubs have gone out of existence. The last one being Haarlem. Oh and crowds are poor for those teams. The football league should have divorced itself from the premier league when it was set up and gone it's own way, negotiated with other european leagues and teams and set up a rival competition. Oh forgot Blatter and his cronies, they would probably have F***** it all up. What has happened to MY beautiful game????????
