Please Help!!!

[jjackson1179]

I have been trying to get into English Premier league soccer but for the life of me I can not figure out the schedul.
They play a league game and then a tournament game and then a game that doesn't seem to matter. They win a semifinal and then lose the next game they play only to end up in a final against another team.
I don't get it!
Can someone please explain to me what is going on?
I guess there are 30+ games in Premier league and the two teams with the best standings at the end play for the cup? Is that right?
And then during this they are playing for different tournaments?
I also read somewhere that the bottom couple teams in the premier league get sent out and some other teams get brought in?

As you can see I am completely lost. If anyone out there can take the time to explain this to me I would be very grateful. Thanks.

[tino11]

I have been trying to get into English Premier league soccer but for the life of me I can not figure out the schedul.
They play a league game and then a tournament game and then a game that doesn't seem to matter. They win a semifinal and then lose the next game they play only to end up in a final against another team.
I don't get it!
Can someone please explain to me what is going on?
I guess there are 30+ games in Premier league and the two teams with the best standings at the end play for the cup? Is that right?
And then during this they are playing for different tournaments?
I also read somewhere that the bottom couple teams in the premier league get sent out and some other teams get brought in?

As you can see I am completely lost. If anyone out there can take the time to explain this to me I would be very grateful. Thanks.

Basically it is like this......

3 Competitions.

1) Premiership, 20 teams play each other twice(home and away) = 38 games.
The team with the most points wins the league and are Champions. 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for losing.
The 3 teams with the least points are relegated to the division below for the following year and are replaced by the 3 highest of the league below.

2) The FA cup, where every proffesional team in England play in a standard cup knockout competition drawn at random. Something daft like 196 teams start and it goes through the rounds until the final where there can only be one winner.

3) The other cup (name keeps changing) is the same as the FA cup but only for the top two leagues (a bit of a joke really)

These three are not interwoven, but games are played between games in the Premiership so they can all be played in one season.

Add to that European games then the top teams can play around 60 games in a season.

Hope that helps

[silver bullet]

Basically it is like this......

3 Competitions.

1) Premiership, 20 teams play each other twice(home and away) = 38 games.
The team with the most points wins the league and are Champions. 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for losing.
The 3 teams with the least points are relegated to the division below for the following year and are replaced by the 3 highest of the league below.

2) The FA cup, where every proffesional team in England play in a standard cup knockout competition drawn at random. Something daft like 196 teams start and it goes through the rounds until the final where there can only be one winner.

3) The other cup (name keeps changing) is the same as the FA cup but only for the top two leagues (a bit of a joke really)

These three are not interwoven, but games are played between games in the Premiership so they can all be played in one season.

Add to that European games then the top teams can play around 60 games in a season.

Hope that helps

You forgot to mention national team games.

[Winston Smith]

Don't listen to those guys, they're just trying to wind you up, stupid trolls...

The Premierleague is split into four regions, like the NFL. The League Cup, the Champions Cup, the FA Cup and the Worthington Cup (named after Worthington Wanderers, who dominated their group in the 20s and 30s).

The teams play each other once a week in their group and play the others once a month and in later seasons, once a fortnight. The winners of the first two cups play each other and the last two play each other in what's known as the cup final.

The winners of both cup finals then play in the season 'super bowl' known as the Charity Shield. There is also a Super Draft in August and January (we have two because of the large number of teams).

At the end of the season, we have what is called Regulation. This is the lower division teams (like Minor League Baseball) all enter a lottery with the teams with highest attendance getting Pro-regulated. The teams with the worst attendance in the EPL get De-regulated.

[Matt Clark]

You poor thing. It is desperately confusing, I must agree. You only have to look around this site and you will soon discover that somewhere in the region of 99% of fellow posters are similarly clueless about what, as this forum hints, is known as "the beautiful game". Thinks of this game as you would a woman. And this particular woman has legs all the way up to her tight little arse, a ludicrously tasty rack and some of the filthiest manners found this side of a French waiter.

Thing is, all such women are complicated, are they not? It can take a lifetime to work them out. So don't despair. You were right to come here, seeking help. For we can provide it.

[jjackson1179]

So basically what your saying is shut up and quit posting stupid questions until I have something meaningful to say like...... oh I don't know.....how about, why did Winston Smith's team, Tottenham, get their arses (as Matt Clark would say) handed to them by Arsenal the other night? Something more along those lines?

Thanks for the help fellas.

[Winston Smith]

So basically what your saying is shut up and quit posting stupid questions until I have something meaningful to say like...... oh I don't know.....how about, why did Winston Smith's team, Tottenham, get their arses (as Matt Clark would say) handed to them by Arsenal the other night? Something more along those lines?

Thanks for the help fellas.

Now that's low Jermaine. I was trying to be helpful ;) .