It's aces ... I just have it in the "DINER" category of burgers, which resides separately from "fast food" burgers.
A nice read for this thread: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...two-championship-miguel-delaney-a8926126.html
Robben won't be enough to bring them another title, even IF he manages to stay healthy and play most of the 38 game season. That's a HUGE if too.
Bury players have written an open letter speaking for help. They haven't been paid in 12 weeks despite winning automatic promotion.
Hmmm........ same guy? "Only A Billionaire I Know Nothing About Can Fix The Problems With Our Team This Other Billionaire Created," States Soccer Fan https://t.co/M5ld1D4YEo— The Nutmeg News (@TheNutmegNews) May 22, 2019
This is what happens with pro-rel... Notts County and their owner, both crippled by debt to the point where a normal business would go under, are about to get bailed out by the owners of Nandos, home of the legendary Portuguese flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken.
Which has far more to do with EPL's creation in the 1990s than anything having to do with Pro/Rel. ***So, the anti-Pro/Rel browbeatings from MLS closed league apologists will continue until morale improves. LOL.
Notice how its the 'losers' that complain, hmmm I wonder why?? At the end of the day to have the 'winners' you HAVE TO HAVE losers! There IS PLENTY of clubs ready to replace Notts County, until clubs go down and are NOT replaced by 'winners' there is nothing wrong with pro/rel, you can see just how much it means, and that is why the leagues with pro/rel are soooo much more thrilling than the sterilised atmosphere of closed leagues. My club has been relegated twice, I KNOW the pain, my club has been promoted twice, I KNOW the joy - fabulous stuff.
I did! And I am curious as to why @jaykoz3 thought it was relevant to this thread in particular, because that is absolutely not the takeaway I got from it.
That in a pro-rel system “it is not outlandish to worry that 75 per cent of clubs in the bottom two divisions have zero long-term future in their current form.”? Yet you have repeatedly blamed the "instability" of USL on the absence of pro-rel.
Actually I disagree somewhat with the conclusion about "digitisation" driving fans to the bigger teams in a season when when clubs like Lincoln, Mansfield, Notts and Tranmere are seeing record attendances in the fourth tier. England may up like Italy where fans support both a "glamor" club and a local club.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again: This argument is presented as a full-throated defense of pro/rel but the bolded part, IMHO, is actually part of the problem. It's one thing to say that some teams will have to lose on the field. But the idea that clubs have to lose--that fans have to risk losing their team, that trainers and front office staff have to risk losing their livelihood--all in the name of "sporting merit" strikes me as a very odd defense. Particularly coming from people who are often ostensibly club-over-league.
Indeed. From what I've seen, there are places where lower-league football is doing great and others where it's in deep trouble. Sometimes in the same country.
Tielemans would be a more important signing than Robben. Given the addition of Tielemans and no-one leaving then I can see the top 6 being close next year. Robben would be helpful for some games but would really help with the young wingers.
Which illustrates another point I've made--pro/rel only works if you keep the top division from getting too big. Which is why I think the horse is out of the barn here; in order to have a truly national pro/rel pyramid including the professional game here, MLS will need to be downsized. That's a lot of investment which would be diminished in value.