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Premiership TV rights 2016-19

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  • edited February 2015

    RIP the football league

    Football clubs will survive this. Take a look at this link. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913–14_Football_League
    All the teams are still in existance and have been so continuously. Eleven of them are in the top tier today.

    This means they have all survived the First World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War, post war austerity, the swinging sixties, hooliganism, Thatcherism, the Taylor report, ITV digital and new labour.
    No other business could claim anything near that level of success with its top companies.

    Football and football clubs will survive sky's massive over payment. What it does for sky remains to be seen.
  • I see what you mean, but it couldn't be done on a regional basis, as three of the Sky faves are in the north west and two in London. I suppose it could be seeded? But then the same teams would still ultimately be in the final, nine times out of ten. And then how would you sort out the all important Champions league places? I don't think UEFA would be too keen on, for example, the four conference winners taking the slots in one country and the rest being decided in the traditional manner? And as for the Europa league...

    I still see the same also rans year in year out to be honest MP, but it's certainly one way they could try to operate.

    I agree. I'm sure some schemes of that type have already been considered and rejected for now. But I think they could devise something workable, if they decided that was the only way forward for the benefit of the PL (no-one else matters).

    Take a look at a place dear to all our hearts, Belgium. The play-off system is weird and not so wonderful, but it's acceptable to UEFA. Of course, it does still involve relegation, but that's not my point. You still have a reasonable mathematical chance of winning a Europa Cup place, even if you're bottom after 20 games of the 30-game regular season.
  • I agree. I'm sure some schemes of that type have already been considered and rejected for now. But I think they could devise something workable, if they decided that was the only way forward for the benefit of the PL (no-one else matters).

    Take a look at a place dear to all our hearts, Belgium. The play-off system is weird and not so wonderful, but it's acceptable to UEFA. Of course, it does still involve relegation, but that's not my point. You still have a reasonable mathematical chance of winning a Europa Cup place, even if you're bottom after 20 games of the 30-game regular season.
    Yes, same kind of scenario in Holland with the Europa league MP.
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