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The Future Structure Of English League Football

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  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    Woodwork said:
    KiwiValley said:
    Woodwork said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    The one top league with no relegation idea simply wouldn't work. There's no draft system and never will be, a salary cap wouldn't work and teams are too close together.   
    A lot of Americans think it is crazy that many English provincial cities have two clubs. Why not a Sheffield City getting 60,000 crowds or a Nottingham United or Bristol United getting 50,000… 
    Charlton London United then i suppose (the Charlton to honour the heritage of the best former club in London). Imagine the 500,000++ crowds
    London isn’t a provincial city, so you could have a few, each representing a part of the city. West London Albion, North London Rangers, East London United and South London Lions. 

    London is an outpost at best…
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,723
    JiMMy 85 said:
    The Equaliser said:
    Aldershot as well 1992
    Aldershot try to go bust every few years, I think it's part of the business model! 
    Rumours are they're on the brink again
  • Woodwork
    Woodwork Posts: 423
    edited June 7
    KiwiValley said:
    Woodwork said:
    KiwiValley said:
    Woodwork said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    The one top league with no relegation idea simply wouldn't work. There's no draft system and never will be, a salary cap wouldn't work and teams are too close together.   
    A lot of Americans think it is crazy that many English provincial cities have two clubs. Why not a Sheffield City getting 60,000 crowds or a Nottingham United or Bristol United getting 50,000… 
    Charlton London United then i suppose (the Charlton to honour the heritage of the best former club in London). Imagine the 500,000++ crowds
    London isn’t a provincial city, so you could have a few, each representing a part of the city. West London Albion, North London Rangers, East London United and South London Lions. 

    London is an outpost at best…
    Other than maths, everything else is about perspective. So I guess this is yours…


  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    In the near future The Premier League club owners will argue that, as the same six (2×3) teams keep going up and down, the number of relegation places must be decreased.

    This is something that they are consciously working towards in my opinion. It may sound like a conspiracy theory but by definition if you are collectively making rules to stop the competition then you are conspiring together. Just look at FFP which is anything but fair. Last season the three promoted clubs went straight back down without even being able to make a fight of it. It wasn’t as if they, particularly Ipswich, don’t have the money to compete, it’s that the rules, devised by the clubs to protect their position, prevented them from spending it.

    Man Utd and Spurs were able to take it easy in the league in order to get to the final of the Europa league because they knew that the risk of relegation was nil. 

    Businesses are risk averse and football clubs are more businesses than sports clubs more than has ever been the case. Modern owners will do whatever possible to decrease the threat regardless of sporting principles.

    I’ve said it here before but it seems so obvious to me that they will cut it from 3 to 2 places by 2030. They will argue that the promoted teams are uncompetitive but no-one in the media will dare accuse them of engineering this. Eventually, if things continue as they are, promotion to The Premier League will be by an election process, or one up automatically at best

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