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Not sure what I said to upset you so much?
Is it because I can string a sentence together without swearing and uncalled insults at another poster?
Whatever, don’t really care tbh.
Most forums welcome input from other fans. Hopefully you’re not representative of your fan base, it’d be worrying if you were
B-b-but we're the real united.
First and original, thanks for noticingB-b-but we're the real united.
Sheffield United formed 1889.First and original, thanks for noticing
Newton Heath changed name to Manchester Utd 1902.
So not so.
I guess you don’t know your football history either.
I haven’t seen a single fan of any premier league club actually for this
Errr....
You do realise I’m a Blade, as in Sheffield United fan don’t you?
One or maybe both of us is very confused...
Apologies - contrary to my earlier post, I’ve never heard of Sheffield Utd. Thanks for filling a gap in my knowledge. What’s a ‘blade’?Errr....
You do realise I’m a Blade, as in Sheffield United fan don’t you?
One or maybe both of us is very confused...
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Stand down goat he's ok
Did you Google that, Joe? I feel like you did
I actually tried to mean the two weakest sides and used Sheffield United and Fulham's names because so far this season, they've looked clueless.
My point was like Norwich last season and Huddersfield before that and Villa a few seasons earlier, in every season there are one or two clubs that are just making up the numbers. They're not adding anything competitively. Making the league smaller by removing two worst-performing clubs will ease fixture congestion and benefit all the remaining clubs and make the league even more competitive and enjoyable.
If Sheffield United are good enough, then they'll stay in that 18-club league. If you're not, then you'll go down. It doesn't have to happen overnight. Relegate 3 clubs, promote 2 for two consecutive seasons. I'm not saying remove two clubs randomly or two clubs that have lowest gate income or attendance. I'm just saying remove the two worst performing sides. This isn't such a radical idea either. PL went from being a 22-club league to 20-club league in the space of a single season.
There's just too many fixtures to fit the football calendar. If the proposal to scrap the League Cup and make the PL smaller came isolated, I think they'd have been welcomed. But because they came along with a lot of other financially incentivised proposals and the attempted power grab (which I don't support either), they're going to be thoroughly condemned by most people. Even the people that have been ranting about scrapping the League Cup for years won't support this project.
We would vote for it.
The PL is currently 20 teams, of which nine would benefit from this. It won't get voted through.
In my opinion, they are striving towards a European 'Super League'.
In the short term want to reduce the burden on the 'big clubs' by reducing their fixtures (less teams, less games) and offering guaranteed European spots to the 'big teams'.
In the long term, the EPL will simply become a feeder to the European super league; where we will have the big clubs playing 30 games a season max - all in front of PPV TV audiences and stadiums packed with corporate guests (ala world cup final)
In the short term want to reduce the burden on the 'big clubs' by reducing their fixtures (less teams, less games) and offering guaranteed European spots to the 'big teams'.
In the long term, the EPL will simply become a feeder to the European super league; where we will have the big clubs playing 30 games a season max - all in front of PPV TV audiences and stadiums packed with corporate guests (ala world cup final)
Liverpool and Man Utd have been trying to get a bigger slice of the foreign tv money for the last 3/4 years. This is just another attempt at that.
Sure, we could join them in forming a super league and regularly get tonked by Real Madrid and Juventus. But! At as a counter offer, the Hawtornes.
Seriously tho, if a Super League is formed I hope spurs opts to stay in England/the PL as a big dog in that league and take part in the EL instead as I assume the CL will be transformed into the Super League.
There's just too many fixtures to fit the football calendar.
That is not the case for everyone. If you are in Europe and go far in the domestic cups yes. However I still remember the year when martin Jol was in charge that we lost in the first round we entered in the Domestic cups and only played 40 matches. I read that they propose to start the season later to allow for more friendlies. No thank you, prefer competitive matches and by starting later it will not help the congestion later. By abolishing the league cup it effectively only leaves the F A Cup as winnerable for most teams.
If the aim is to make more money from TV rights, why dont they just do an Amazon or Netflix style Subscription where you can watch every live game for your chosen club for say £9.95 a month or a 1 off charge per game for £5, im sure a lot of people who currently use dodgy streams would be happy with £9.95 a month to watch all the spurs games?
I find the catch-all nature of some of the questions deeply suspicious (why do I have to accept £250 covid reparations and removing parachute payments as one thing?). Others are similarly strange couplings.
Seeing this as a land-grab by the American billionaires (Dippers and Manure owners, specifically). They've sprinkled some gold-dust on it, of course, but that £250m isn't going to last long and it's the Trojan horse for the enduring dynasty of the self-assured 'top six'.
Have a horrible feeling it'll happen whether we like it or not.
As always, here's Vox Populi Ian Holloway banging on their door with a shotgun:
Humberside Sport - Holloway: "Greed is disgusting, and that’s what I’m seeing everywhere. It’s absolutely vile." - BBC Sounds
Grimsby Town manager on the Project Big Picture plans for the English football pyramid.
www.bbc.co.uk
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I don't think this will get through, it seems universally unpopular. But something like this will become the norm in the next 20/25 years imho.
I find the catch-all nature of some of the questions deeply suspicious (why do I have to accept £250 covid reparations and removing parachute payments as one thing?). Others are similarly strange couplings.
Seeing this as a land-grab by the American billionaires (Dippers and Manure owners, specifically). They've sprinkled some gold-dust on it, of course, but that £250m isn't going to last long and it's the Trojan horse for the enduring dynasty of the self-assured 'top six'.
Have a horrible feeling it'll happen whether we like it or not.
As always, here's Vox Populi Ian Holloway banging on their door with a shotgun:
Humberside Sport - Holloway: "Greed is disgusting, and that’s what I’m seeing everywhere. It’s absolutely vile." - BBC Sounds
Grimsby Town manager on the Project Big Picture plans for the English football pyramid.
They also have loans stacked up their pipes. A new season without CL for Man Utd would be devastating for their finances. They actually look very vulnerable at the moment.