The limited number of players clubs are allowed to loan makes genuine 'farm teams' all but impossible. There are also limits on club ownership...
I think given the choice betwen a championship season in which their team is winning games, and a premiership season in which they were outclassed...
The Premier League's defining principle was greed, with the idea being thought up in meeting between ITV and the top clubs of the day, as a way of...
I think the sentiment is more of a "the greedy bastards are going to do it eventually, so just let them do it now" rather than a desire for it to...
Oddly, somebody from the premier league did include Everton when mentioning "small clubs" a few weeks back. The bigger sticking point at Man...
Pro/rel wouldn't make any of the current US leagues more stable. The thing having having an increasingly regionalised pyramid would do* is...
Not if they miss open goals from six yards like I saw them do last Saturday* they won't. * and then concede and a penalty equaliser a minute...
American colleges tend to have a high focus on sports. Sports at universities here are purely recreational activities. There are no university...
All is says is they aren't playing professional football. It doesn't say they quit the game entirely. It does say many end up getting jobs. Isn't...
Players will drop to their level, which might well not be professional football. Many will probably give up and get regular jobs, rather than play...
Please stop repeating this every single time. It's absolutely irrelevant, and makes you sound like a conspiracy theory nutter, latching on to one...
Players do slip through the cracks, but they'll just get a regular job and play part time. They are normally then spotted pretty quickly,...
Wrexham's boost is somewhat artificially driven by their ownership. I'd say it's still a good new story, but it will be interesting to see what...
10:05 would have been the time. It was an evening kick-off, in injury time, so a vast large number of those empty seats would have been for fans...
I wonder if they'll have a sudden change of attitude to their decision to block the premier league sharing revenue with the EFL now? Of course,...
It tends to only be an issue with large clubs having bad seasons. Some might even be sponsor tickets. Particularly in the premier league, I doubt...
A game being sold out doesn't mean everyone turns up. Empty seats don't mean there are tickets unsold
Not really. Not for quite a while. There's just not a huge difference. I remember Burnley used to publish both tickets sold and actual, and the...
I think these days that's no longer the case, although there doesn't tend to be a massive difference usually, except maybe night games, when fewer...
This is really an impact of many of those tickets going to people who buy them to sell at a profit, not to go themselves. That's probably a factor...
Other than for teams who'd be a long way short of capacity even if they were mid-table, that's not really true. Even for struggling teams, the...
Is anybody here denying that all the independent leagues in England are interconnected to form one large 'league system'? No. Take that away,...
I think Luton have also been quite open in how this season will go a long way to financing their new stadium.
I suspect clubs have been 'pushing it' for too long, and it's starting to catch up with many now. A lot of cost cutting going on. It's also...
One of the things that really annoys me lately is pub food. Not content with repainting once characterful pubs with slate blue paint, slapping on...