Premier league proposes reducing number of clubs 20 to 18 and scrapping the league cup

Fukk em. Let them form a European super league. Which is what they really want. They’ll be a collection of exhibition teams like the Harlem globe trotters or some such. It’ll become nearly as boring as the so called champions league is now! Football in this country has never been the same since sky tv got involved.
 
Two sides automatically relegated from the Premier League every season and the top two Championship teams promoted. The 16th place Premier League club in a play-off tournament with the Championship’s third, fourth and fifth placed teams.

And so it begins
Boro won promotion when this was in place, mind you that was before the greed is good PL was thought of
 
Yep, agree. I'm for all them sodding off and creating a Euro super league. Let us get back to how it was. Even competition, same amount of money, equal chance of winning silverware. Football for the people.

Let them swim in their own hubris and gluttony.
 
I'm sure the top clubs would be happy with an American style format where there is no promotion or relegation and the rest of the teams are obliterated outside the Premier league.

What can clubs and fans outside the Premier league do about it?
 
"How can Huddersfield have the same vote as Man United?".

Well, lets have a look at the rest of the "big nine". Oh, no Southampton or West Ham at all.

I know cheap shot, but football didn't start in 1992, I have to say though if this proposal had come up in the early 2000s when we were regularly finishing top half, I bet we'd have been all for it.
 

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It's a good thing that I had my lunch before reading that...
seems like "The Big 6" intend to make official what they do already: Dictate to English Football how the game is run and in their interests!

They can **** ***** *** as far as Im concerned.
 
There would be two automatic promotion places for Championship clubs, but the third, fourth and fifth placed clubs would be in a play-off tournament with the 16th placed Premier League club.
That went well last time they did it.
 
I’d propose ending the player loan system all together. It’s stop the Chelsea style business model of gobbling up all the talent and loaning it out. Why the fukk should other teams give players who belong to other teams game time and experience.
 
Boro won promotion when this was in place, mind you that was before the greed is good PL was thought of
That was the last one wasn’t it as they changed the rule after us.

It’s 2 bites at the cherry though that’s the point, it’s also one place saved and will lead to more reduction in the future.
 
No I wouldn't, not a chance.

I dunno. It's all about stopping the pendulum from swinging back isn't it? Southampton and West Ham are the clubs named with most to gain beyond revenue streams - they've flirted with relegation in the last few years. It just happens to be them at the moment who can guarantee (almost) no relegation, lucrative games against the big six and complete consolidation of their position. I would think it'd be extraordinarily tempting for any club invited to sit at the table with the b***ds.
 
The sad thing is that this country has a deep pyramid of teams and a history unlike any other country or any other sport in the world and these foreign owners want to **** all over 132 years of history.

The English game is about so much more than Man utd, Liverpool and Arsenal. The lower leagues are focal points of their towns and provide employment to thousands of people throughout the country.

We should be preserving the history of English football rather than allowing it to be destroyed, although the destruction started in 1992.
 
But wouldn't it get boring playing the same teams and with little threat of relegation. Some of those relegation six pointers are the amongst the best games you will see. Giving three teams the chance of competing with and beating the big boys. Again, I give you Leicester who were in the third tier and won the Prem after just about surviving the season before.
 
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