The gap between the bottom of the Premiership & top of the Championship is a daunting one to cross too!I agree...tradition is disappearing more and more due to the need to keep television companies happy.
The gap between the top of the Championship and the top of league 1 is frightening.
I remember I suggested this a few years ago but in a World Cup year. Try a straight knockout tournament, and to suspend the League Cup too. My reasoning was this will help the England players with fixture congestion.
Not sure how I feel about it now, but with Champions and Europa League, our players play way too much football and are jaded come June.
What about these top platers from foreign climes though? Wouldn't they play better as a result too? Given that the Premiership apparently attracts most of the best players...we would be back to square 1.I remember I suggested this a few years ago but in a World Cup year. Try a straight knockout tournament, and to suspend the League Cup too. My reasoning was this will help the England players with fixture congestion.
Not sure how I feel about it now, but with Champions and Europa League, our players play way too much football and are jaded come June.
But there's is no need to scrap it. The big clubs use it to blood new young talent. So it doesn't impact until the latter rounds when the sniff of the big paydays enter in anyway.That's the obvious solution. Scrap the league cup and just have the one cup competition.
I know replays are a pain, but the reward for a little club can be massive
The gap between the bottom of the Premiership & top of the Championship is a daunting one to cross too!
...onwards & upwards PUSB
I agree...tradition is disappearing more and more due to the need to keep television companies happy.
The gap between the top of the Championship and the top of league 1 is frightening.
I agree...tradition is disappearing more and more due to the need to keep television companies happy.
The gap between the top of the Championship and the top of league 1 is frightening.
More worrying is that 14 teams in Prem league are now foreign owned taking it above 66%.
Wouldn't surprise me at all, if they tried to close shop even more by voting to have just one team promoted and relegated; maybe even reducing to 18 as well. The money men could make it impossible for teams like us to ever reach the promised land.
Just putting it out there and hoping not being too cynical.
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