LOL ... the ones in that thread are particularly pitiful, ignorant, and selectively applying their principles.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/english...ague-schedule-ahead-of-2022-world-cup-sources LMAO the FA itself says "big 6" ....
Also interesting of note in that, is how the FA is asking the EPL to pretty please do this. Weird how that works eh? But do go on about MLS running the USSF ...
Did he Pulisic explain that Reyna the McKennie lack of Aaronson pro/rel Scally is Weah why we Adams can't Richards produce any Turner decent players?
The FA doesn't compile the fixtures each league uses, so it's a request. For years, the FA and the Football League were in something of a power struggle. The Premier League doesn't have the same kind of relationship with the FA, so it's not likely to be an issue. On a different note, those 'last to first' stories that can't happen in pro/rel leagues... Next weekend's rugby premiership final will contested by the two teams placed bottom in the 2019/20 season. OK, Saracens' place at the foot of the table was due to a massive points deduction for salary cap breaches, but they still had to play one season in the division below, and they have now built another title-chasing squad while being fully complaint with all salary cap regulations. Yes, really. Honestly. I don't doubt it for a second. Not at all.
The FA does have a little more influence over The Football Association Premier League Limited than it does over the EFL.
I thought the PL existed outside the Football League and so therefore the FA doesn't technically have any authority over it? Am I wrong about that?
In terms of governence, there's no link between the Football League and the FA. The Premier League was initially formed under the umbrella of the FA, but was a separate body. There were more than a few suggestions that one reason why The FA (who are meant to look after the whole of the game in the country) agreed to do something that would be potentially damaging to the rest of the Football League, was that it gave them an upper hand in the on-going FA v League power struggle. The FA still has the ultimate right of sanction over all leagues, but doesn't get involved in the production of fixture lists. There is a fair degree of co-ordination between league on these too. Even with Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, and Notts County in the 5th tier, you almost certainly won't see them both be at home on the same day, for example. There are other considerations. Reading are never at home on the August Bank Holiday weekend, as that would clash with the Reading Festival. Bournemouth, I believe, aren't at home on the May Day Bank Holiday, because of the potential for trouble if thousands of away fans come down for the weekend (as Leeds did one year).
MLS has similar considerations. They typically won't schedule matches that coincide with anything that anyone might remotely want to watch.
It still seems strange to me that pro/rel leaves whole regions of countries (like southern Argentina) without a top flight club.
If you were to draw an east-west line through the southernmost stadium in the league (in Mar del Plata), almost 95% of Argentina's population would be north of it. Even so, it's striking that there are currently no clubs south of Puerto Madryn in the top three divisions.
The fire was rather quickly and brutally extinguished. How does a team watched by 200 people assemble a competitive squad in a 2 month off- season within the rules of a (US $6.6M) salary cap?
I know that, I watched the video. The idea is interesting though. It would drive at least some more interest in the bottom team matchups at the tail end of the season. How much interest? That's very difficult to say. The salary budget details are a large hurdle which has been gone over ad nauseum here.
The NRL isn't really a national league now. It is really concentrated in the Rugby League heartland of the country in New South Wales and Queensland. 9 of the 16 current teams are in greater Sydney. And 1 more just a little farther away in New South Wales. There are another 2 in the Brisbane area, 1 in northern Queensland, 1 in Melbourne, 1 in Canberra, and 1 in New Zealand. There are plans to expand. Brisbane is getting another team next year. Perth has an expansion bid that seems to be linked with a lower division team in Sydney. New Zealand might get another team. But then they will probably split into side-by-side conferences. Sound familiar?