Football League Renaming

[kwik1980]

Speculation for a couple of months is now official...

http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10794~531749,00.html

The Leagues will now be called...
Coca-Cola Football League Championship (old Nationwide Division 1)
Coca-Cola Football League One (Nationwide Division 2)
Coca-Cola Football League Two (Nationwide Division 3)

So, with all the restructuring that has gone on in the English game, the path is now:

Premier League
Coca-Cola Championship
Coca-Cola League One
Coca-Cola League Two
Conference National
Conference North/Conference South


Of course further down are various regional leagues.

Going to take some getting used to, but there it is.

[SYoshonis]

So now, what's really the Third Division is now called League One. What crap.

[www.stgeorgeforum.tk]

I don't like it

[ValeTone]

I despair. It is something that clearly just massages the inflated egos of those who have fallen out of the "premiership". Has nowt to do with the fans and nowt to do with marketing football successfully.

[Chris M]

I'm not impressed, sounds really pathetic.

[sokkerluver]

Just stupid!! It just makes it more freakin' confusing.

[ValeTone]

More crap from Mawhinney and his pals:

Breaking news (http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10794~543486,00.html)

This will merely serve to keep the likes of Leeds and Leicester happy and avoid the Premiership forming a second tier. It will do nothing for the likes of Hartlepool, Rochdale and my own team.

[pylon]

It looks/sounds kind of silly in print:
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A bone scan revealed deVos, who plays for Ipswich Town of the English Football League Championship (formerly First Division), had suffered a stress fracture at the top of his fibula.
- From an article about Canada's 2:0 loss to Guatemala in Vancouver
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So, it's 'the Division Formerly Known as ______________' from now on, is it? Didn't we just get over calling the First "the former Second Division", etc?

[berrik]

I'm still calling them by their old names without realising and always have to correct myself. :p Just shows how much Coca-Cola can pay to rename pretty much anything they like.

[RichardL]

It looks/sounds kind of silly in print:
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A bone scan revealed deVos, who plays for Ipswich Town of the English Football League Championship (formerly First Division), had suffered a stress fracture at the top of his fibula.
- From an article about Canada's 2:0 loss to Guatemala in Vancouver
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So, it's 'the Division Formerly Known as ______________' from now on, is it? Didn't we just get over calling the First "the former Second Division", etc?
it's very daft, and wrong. If they are saying Div is now the championship because that division used to be the football league championship, then they've screwed up renaming the other two divisions one & two, because when they added second (and third and fourth) divisions, division one was the top tier, and the division below, division two. The division below the football league's top division has never been known as division one.

ps what's the division below Czech's second division called, as it's looking worryingly like Bohemians will be playing there next season, assuming they even survive this one. At least the convict supposedly managing the club has gone. I had planned to see Bohemians play at 'the dimple' when I was in Prague a few weeks back, but I found out they'd switched games to the Strahov, then rearranged the game date to a date when I was somewhere else with just a week's notice. I couldn't even buy a scarf as they didn't appear to have any at the club (that or the player they dragged off the treatment table to converse with me as he spoke english was just lying, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt).

[lewisseasider]

I'm getting used to the changes know