I know they will never do it but it's something I have been thinking about since the season started. Because c'mon let's face it, the premier league is not much fun. It looks like another miserable season, getting stuffed every week, scraping a few draws. It's tedious watching the opposition stroke the ball about and us chasing shadows. The big teams are getting bigger, the little teams can barely afford to have a squad because of the wages. Boro and Burnley were very good teams last season. Both struggling just like we are. It all seems a waste of time. Tedious and pointless. What I propose. 2 divisions of 10 teams. Prem A and Prem B. Play each other 4 times, 36 matches. Promotion and relegation from Prem A and Prem B, but just one team. Bottom 3 of Prem B go down into the championship to be replaced by the promoted teams. Prem A would be Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea, Everton, Leicester, West Ham and Southampton. Prem B would be City, Burnley, Boro, Swansea, Sunderland, Watford, West Brom, Palace, Bournemouth and Stoke. I know we don't get to play big teams but so what ? We have no chance anyway. It might make the premier league more enjoyable. What do you think ?
I aint watched a full football match this season yet. I watched half the Villa v Forrest game tuther week and enjoyes it. Im struggling to get interested in it at all.
Playing Boro, Stoke and Watford and the others 4 times? Are you a masochist? Any court sentencing someone to watch that would be in bother with Human Rights organisations for breaching the cruel and inhuman punishment rule.
I enjoyed Villa v Wolves the other night... they look a good side Wolves, in the context of 'they were playing Villa'.. free flowing, not afraid to get forward. Interesting how many managers in the championship are now foreign.
That's likely to increase the financial gap even more. At present it's feeling like 3 levels anyway, as some teams can put up a fight and at least 4 haven't invested enough.
Ive watched bits of games and i find Championship more enjoyable. Really high possession football ( so called tikki takka ) bores the **** out of me.
Practically, it won't work. Financially, it won't work. Commercially, it won't work. Realistically, it won't work. Factors such as the Football League, advertisers and sponsors, TV companies, etc, aren't taken into account in your idea. Therefore, as I said earlier, awful idea.
We could always step down a couple of divisions and win a few more games. At least I assume if we kept the current squad we might stand a chance of doing so.
Yeah because it's just the same teams winning the PL every year isn't it? You never get anyone from near the bottom challenging at the top. Why is everyone in football so obsessed with changing formats?
Could start playing with an odd shaped ball too to even things up? Then maybe have an end to the season where the team that won it don't necessarily win because you start again and have some sort of grand final? Perhaps have a magical weekend where loads of teams go to one town to play at the same time? Maybe even allow carrying of the odd shaped ball? It might catch on (although I suspect only with a minority)
We could play Hull United and call it the biggest Derby in the universe, akin to .AC v Inter, Rangers v Celtic...
Excellent plan It should sell the KC out (and by sell out I mean quarter fill it) every time...unless it's raining obviously
With 15,000 in it would be described as packed, with 9/10 for entertainment and 9/10 for atmosphere in the HDM.
The PL has been going for 24 years. In that time there have been 6 different winners of the league, two of them only once and and 7 winners of the cup. The first game I watched as a very young kid was Man .Utd v Aston Villa in 1957. In the next 24 years there were 13 winners of the league and 17 different winners of the Cup. Some may think there has been progress and things are better and more interesting. I don't.
Whether things are or aren't better or more interesting now than 24 years ago, it'd be strange to make a change now that would prevent a reoccurrence of last year's fairy tale. Sometimes I think in football we ignore things that happen in front of us if they don't suit the usual cliches. People will say after a defeat that their team lacked passion even if they clearly gave everything but weren't good enough. This 'the PL isn't competitive' is another such cliche. Maybe it isn't always, but just because we're doing ****, doesn't mean the likes of Bournemouth and Leicester shouldn't be allowed to earn success.
