The Global Football Thread
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Yeah, Wolves lost a lot of good pieces this year, and they don't have any money coming in from playing in the Europa League, either. It's gonna be interesting to see how they do. I think they'll still end up being annoyingly good.
Really excited about what my Spurs have been doing this week, though. Obviously Gareth Bale is a big deal and has a great history with the club, and a front three of him, Kane and Son Heung-min has me giddy. But it's actually their acquisition of Sergio Reguilon that has me intrigued. He was arguably the best left back in La Liga last year and he'll be a massive upgrade over Ben Davies (who I do like, but not as a starter).
Really excited about what my Spurs have been doing this week, though. Obviously Gareth Bale is a big deal and has a great history with the club, and a front three of him, Kane and Son Heung-min has me giddy. But it's actually their acquisition of Sergio Reguilon that has me intrigued. He was arguably the best left back in La Liga last year and he'll be a massive upgrade over Ben Davies (who I do like, but not as a starter).
The "Big Picture Project" is being proposed by the owners of Liverpool and Manchester United. The proposals are
1) The English Premier League (EPL) would be reduced from 20 to 18 clubs.
2) The League Cup and the Community Shield would be scrapped.
3) Current one-club one-vote principle would be abolished. Under that principle it usually meant that 14 clubs out of the current 20 were needed to agree on policy changes in the EPL.
4) Power would instead be invested in the nine clubs that have remained in the Premier League longest (Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham).
5) Under the proposed changes, only six of the nine longest-serving clubs would need to vote for a major change in the EPL.
6) A £250m payment up front to the English Football League (EFL), plus £100m payment to the Football Association. The EFL represents the lower leagues like the Championship, League One and League Two.
7) 25 per cent of Premier League annual revenue (up from four per cent) would go to the EFL clubs.
However it seems a majority of the EPL teams have rejected the proposals for now. But they have agreed to a £72 million bailout for the league one and league two teams.
https://talksport.com/football/7736...ected-premier-league-clubs-liverpool-man-utd/
1) The English Premier League (EPL) would be reduced from 20 to 18 clubs.
2) The League Cup and the Community Shield would be scrapped.
3) Current one-club one-vote principle would be abolished. Under that principle it usually meant that 14 clubs out of the current 20 were needed to agree on policy changes in the EPL.
4) Power would instead be invested in the nine clubs that have remained in the Premier League longest (Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham).
5) Under the proposed changes, only six of the nine longest-serving clubs would need to vote for a major change in the EPL.
6) A £250m payment up front to the English Football League (EFL), plus £100m payment to the Football Association. The EFL represents the lower leagues like the Championship, League One and League Two.
7) 25 per cent of Premier League annual revenue (up from four per cent) would go to the EFL clubs.
However it seems a majority of the EPL teams have rejected the proposals for now. But they have agreed to a £72 million bailout for the league one and league two teams.
https://talksport.com/football/7736...ected-premier-league-clubs-liverpool-man-utd/
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The "Big Picture Project" sounds like a power grab by the owners of Liverpool and Man Utd. They were planning to use the financial crisis, generated by pandemic, that has been devastating the lower league teams by offering them, the sum of 250 million pounds and in return getting exclusive voting power in return. They tried to rope in the other big teams for their support but it seems that Man City and Arsenal did not support the proposals. The English FA was against it as well.
Thank God, it was rejected.
However cutting the number of teams in the EPL from 20 to 18 and scrapping the League Cup sound like a good idea. The teams already play 40 to 50 games per season which can be exhausting. The number of games played can increase if you include European matches.
But i support keeping the Community Shield. I like the idea of the EPL champion meeting the FA Cup winner in a Super Cup match.
Thank God, it was rejected.
However cutting the number of teams in the EPL from 20 to 18 and scrapping the League Cup sound like a good idea. The teams already play 40 to 50 games per season which can be exhausting. The number of games played can increase if you include European matches.
But i support keeping the Community Shield. I like the idea of the EPL champion meeting the FA Cup winner in a Super Cup match.
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Tell that to the fans who get to see 4 less League games and the fringe players who won't get to play because the League Cup is gone. The League Cup is a route to Wembley and Europe for the lesser teams in the Premier League. The American owners of Man Utd & Liverpool can fuck off if they don't like the structure of the English game. It was a pathetic power grab by foreign owners with no respect of the tradition and culture of English Football.
They wanted to take a playoff spot from the Championship and offer it to 16th place PL team FFS
The FA need to assert itself more often because despite popular belief they have powers over aspects of the Premier League they agree not to use but they can legally.
The Clubs wouldn't need so much money if FIFA regulated the dam agents like they did prior to Sepp Blatter's FIFA reign. Agents are the reason for inflated transfer and wage prices because they take a huge % of them. Footballers need better education so they don't need these parasites and regulation is needed to curb people like Jorge Mendes.
Tell that to the fans who get to see 4 less League games and the fringe players who won't get to play because the League Cup is gone. The League Cup is a route to Wembley and Europe for the lesser teams in the Premier League. The American owners of Man Utd & Liverpool can fuck off if they don't like the structure of the English game. It was a pathetic power grab by foreign owners with no respect of the tradition and culture of English Football.
They wanted to take a playoff spot from the Championship and offer it to 16th place PL team FFS
The FA need to assert itself more often because despite popular belief they have powers over aspects of the Premier League they agree not to use but they can legally.
The Clubs wouldn't need so much money if FIFA regulated the dam agents like they did prior to Sepp Blatter's FIFA reign. Agents are the reason for inflated transfer and wage prices because they take a huge % of them. Footballers need better education so they don't need these parasites and regulation is needed to curb people like Jorge Mendes.
I still stand by about abolishing the League Cup. The French Football Federation scrapped the French League Cup (Coupe de la Ligue) in 2020 so as to reduce the fixture congestion.
Plus UEFA is creating the Europa Conference League Competition for 2021. It will be the third tier European competition after the Champions League and Europa League. That means more games for more teams.
Reducing teams in the EPL from 20 to 18 is also a good idea. Less fixtures means less exhausting playing periods for players. That means also less chances of injuries for players.
But i do agree with you on your other points in the post. The owners of Man Utd and Liverpool tried a power grap in these tiring times and failed. Thank God.
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We should not reduce our Domestic League to fit the European Calendar. There is no indication Domestic fans in England back the idea of reducing our League and they were very anti Big Project Bullshit.
25 man squads + Academy starlets mean all PL teams should simply rotate more to protect players.
I'm getting sick of VAR on offside calls. The purpose of replay is to eliminate human error, and yet human error is built-in to VAR because the operator has to guess the exact moment the passer's foot touches the ball. Also, if it is necessary to plot the lines and try to line them up with parts of players' bodies, then by definition it cannot be clear and obvious. Plus, the intent of the offside rule is to deny the offensive player an unfair advantage. How on earth can the shirtsleeve or toenail being offside give anyone an unfair advantage? There's such a thing as carrying "get the call correct" too far.
As an aside, two things that the rest of the world does better than us Yanks...
1. Football. I like American football just fine, but it's kind of dumb to call a sport "football" when the ball is kicked only occasionally. Also, you don't have to be the size of the Titanic to play regular football.
2. The metric system. Convert feet to miles: get a calculator. Convert meters to kilometers: move the dot three places.
1. Football. I like American football just fine, but it's kind of dumb to call a sport "football" when the ball is kicked only occasionally. Also, you don't have to be the size of the Titanic to play regular football.
2. The metric system. Convert feet to miles: get a calculator. Convert meters to kilometers: move the dot three places.
The metric system is better than the Imperial system, but Fahrenheit is far better for measuring air temperature than Celsius. I propose the world compromises and we all switch to metric plus Fahrenheit.
Anyway, I'm glad that Project Big Picture nonsense got quashed, though I do hope they can come up with something to help out the lower leagues. But I'm not against the Premier League going to 18 teams, because that's what it was always meant to be, anyway.
Anyway, I'm glad that Project Big Picture nonsense got quashed, though I do hope they can come up with something to help out the lower leagues. But I'm not against the Premier League going to 18 teams, because that's what it was always meant to be, anyway.
Since when?
It was created in 1992 and was 24 Clubs and then it was reduce over a few seasons to 20 and was kept that way ever since.
That's according to The Athletic's article about Project Big Picture: (paywalled)
I assume that it was UEFA that wanted them to make it an 18-team league but the Premier League just stopped at 20 instead.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC replaced human camera operators with AI and the AI kept thinking the linesman's bald head was the ball.
https://www.iflscience.com/technolo...-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball/
https://www.iflscience.com/technolo...-after-mistaking-referees-bald-head-for-ball/
I know this is the football thread (life long LFC fan here), but by what measure is Fahrenheit better at measuring air temperature than Celsius? Do you mean because it has smaller increments without using decimals?
