Premier League team reduction

[Suomi_Blade]

Proposed plan to reduce teams from 20 to 18... not great really.

 

[Bladesman]

Awful idea.

 

[Mesut Özil's Lawnmower]

That will never go through

Liverpool and Man Utd can go fuck themselves

 

[South London Blade]

Liverpool and Man Utd can go fuck themselves

Another memorable mantra that alway applies!

 

[JimW1889]

"It is also planned that, as well as the 'big six', ever-present league member Everton, West Ham United and Southampton - ninth and 11th respectively in the list of clubs who have featured in the most Premier League seasons - would be granted special status.

If six of those nine clubs vote in favour of a proposal, it would be enough to get it passed"

Christ.

 

[Ricardo Mantelban]

Why do Liverpool and Man Utd want to leave the league for. ?

 

[Blade58]

West Ham flirt with relegation most seasons. What's their reason for voting for it?

Less home match revenue. Less TV revenue. More chance of dropping out .................. perhaps? (depends on how many teams would be relegated)

 

[Mojo]

So the big clubs just want to take complete control of the league do they?

Might as well just end football now what's the point

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

 

[Wards]

I feel like I’m on the brink of fucking it all off anyway but this would be the final straw for me.

 

[bypassblade]

Yes the tail is wagging the dog Man Utd & Liverpool can fuck off, I mean Liverpool 1 title in 30 years Leicester & Blackburn can match that.

 

[Karaoke Blade]

I really wish the 'big six' would just fuck off and go and play in a soulless European Super League and leave the rest of us to play in a proper football pyramid. I'm sick of these prima donna clubs and their fucking international 'supporters' .

 

[Blade56]

World exclusive: Man Utd and Liverpool driving 'Project Big Bucks ' - football’s biggest shake-up in a generation.

Edited to reflect the truth

 

[dc_blade]

Football as we have known it is finished.

 

[Shoreham_Bhoys]

I've been getting into non-league last few years, I could never give up the blades as my #1 side but I'd certainly follow a local side if this happened.

Up the Worksop Town!

 

[Davalon]

Just heard this on the radio.

The big six to have the power to veto a new owner taking us over.

Each passing day something happens or is proposed in the world that makes the plandemic the excuse for making the rich untouchable.

 

[Champagneblade]

Ridiculous. It’s not do long ago West Ham got relegated and Southampton in League One.

Yet a Northern team like Newcastle gets no say.

I’m sure ex-Liverpool guy Rick Parry sees no harm.

This should be binned off immediately.

 

[JackSUFC]

I feel like I’m on the brink of fucking it all off anyway but this would be the final straw for me.

The news of this on the same weekend they announce the £15 pay-per-view scheme is so disillusioning. I feel detached from football at the minute as it is. Our defeats this season have barely affected me like they would’ve in the past and I never thought I’d be saying that.

 

[LS16Blade]

US owned Liverpool and Man U driving it. Experience in professional life tells me that you shouldn't trust Americans as far as you could throw them. Spivs.

Any other Premier League club owners that vote in favour of this must be absolutely thick. The pathetic window-dressing of 'granting "special status" to Southampton, Everton and West Ham (that's the mighty Southampton, Everton and West Ham for crying out loud) in order to hood-wink those 3 clubs into supporting them is embarrassing. The 'Big 6' must have identified those 3 clubs as being run by utter sops.

 

[YES Blade]

Wouldn’t this need to be voted through by the 2/3 current system? If that’s the case it won’t happen surely?

 

[1973Blade]

Gosh, Manchester United and Liverpool really don't like losing 6-1 and 7-2 to 'lesser clubs' do they?

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Just when you thought 2020 had run out of shit to throw at us!!

Confirming what in truth we’ve known for a long time that the PL is run for the benefit of the “big six” and the rest of us are an annoying necessity to fill out the fixtures calendar

 

[Snowflake]

When the Prem was formed it had 22 teams. The plan I recall was to reduce over two years to 20 and then to 18 soon after. It never happened.
That all made sense as it reduced the number of games for the top sides.
It still makes sense as the bottom end of the league is generally not great.
Our problem is we are understandably biased, whilst we are at the bottom.
If we could finish over two years in the top half and only two sides per year would be relegated once it is down to 18,then we would all be more likely to be in favour.

 

[bypassblade]

The days when football was for the fans is long gone, it's for the billionaires and Sky and such we're not "big" at same time no way we're "small". We are just a club that sort of plods along and takes the good times when they come, I can remember when WHU were used as the model for how to play the game.

In this day and age they are perennial strugglers and have good seasons when they might finish 7th we defied all the odds last season and finished 9th but I tipped top 10 from beginning.

People talk about Chelsea and City and Spurs as being big, they're not they're just ridiculously rich Chelsea and City were up and down like a slags knickers not too long ago & Spurs ain't pulled no trees up.

Man Utd were relegated in 74 and have kicked on a fair bit since then, Everton just seem to plod on and are a middling side. I say let the top, not "big" 6 break away then leave it for rest to restructure the pyramid. We would have a Division 1 thru 4 like old days it lasted long enough before.

And giving "special status" to such as Soton is laughable, just look back over years before PL created and money rolled in how many teams turned up Monday and ground was padlocked. At one point there was talk of merging Reading & Oxford and becoming Thames Valley Royals football needs it's heritage and lower league clubs as it was built on the backbone of these things.

 

[Brownieblade]

Wouldn’t this need to be voted through by the 2/3 current system? If that’s the case it won’t happen surely?

If it’s EFL as well they will get EFL vote

 

[Snowflake]

Wouldn’t this need to be voted through by the 2/3 current system? If that’s the case it won’t happen surely?

Not necessarily. If a club thinks it can be in the 18 then it would vote in favour as it would then have a greater share of the billions available
A gamble perhaps but don’t rule out some of the clubs below 8th last year agreeing to it.

 

[McGrath]

That will be me done for if this happens.

Bye bye the game I grew up loving.

 

[Shirty Blade]

Seems that Wonky Owl is pretending to be a Man City fan again!

 

[McGrath]

The days when football was for the fans is long gone, it's for the billionaires and Sky and such we're not "big" at same time no way we're "small". We are just a club that sort of plods along and takes the good times when they come, I can remember when WHU were used as the model for how to play the game.

In this day and age they are perennial strugglers and have good seasons when they might finish 7th we defied all the odds last season and finished 9th but I tipped top 10 from beginning.

People talk about Chelsea and City and Spurs as being big, they're not they're just ridiculously rich Chelsea and City were up and down like a slags knickers not too long ago & Spurs ain't pulled no trees up.

Man Utd were relegated in 74 and have kicked on a fair bit since then, Everton just seem to plod on and are a middling side. I say let the top, not "big" 6 break away then leave it for rest to restructure the pyramid. We would have a Division 1 thru 4 like old days it lasted long enough before.

And giving "special status" to such as Soton is laughable, just look back over years before PL created and money rolled in how many teams turned up Monday and ground was padlocked. At one point there was talk of merging Reading & Oxford and becoming Thames Valley Royals football needs it's heritage and lower league clubs as it was built on the backbone of these things.

If they try and get this through with the 'special status' thing for Soton, Everton and West Ham, then get ready for the mother of all legal battles. I can imagine the other 11 clubs taking this to Court and it taking years to sort out.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Within this new landscape, would we still see 3 team relegated/promoted?

It's a clear land grab by the Scousers and the Mancs, and I hope that the rest, or majority of the division agree to oppose this nonsense. They seem unaware that a point comes when the straw that breaks the supporters back isn't that far away. Of course it's greed driven, and those lesser teams that seem to have no backbone should consider a future when the big 2/3 or 4 decide to shit of them.

In the recent PPV debacle only Leicester came out of it with the appearance of being pro-supporter. Even the 'mighty' Blades chose to follow the herd and do the wrong thing. Thee moment supporter's decide enough is enough will be the day of reckoning for those clubs and the companies that sponsor them. As for the likes of Sky and BT, well I hope their shares suffer an uncontrollable drop.