This old chestnut is being kicked around again. The Leeds owner is calling for this as he reckons life in the Championship is not sustainable.
As it stands I could not imagine the Premier League parting with a single pound. If they had a mouth full of gumboils they would not give you one.
Unless of course there is some kind of trade off that would appeal to them. Something along the lines of go along with this and we could change the rules so only one team could be relegated from Division Two. As a large proportion of the top tier will be fighting relegation at some stage of their lives, it could be a decent
safeguard against it happening again if it comes to the worst.
That is just one scenario; however, I can see the structure changing at some point, maybe not for the good of many.
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Kind of like how the Women's setup is now where you have to be elected
However, eventually there will be a slew of clubs at the bottom of Div 2 who are cannon fodder. By January every year they will have nothing to play for, and with no relegation to fight against, watch the crowds diminish...
The only answer would be something akin to the US draft system, where the worst team gets the best new players in order to give them a chance to go up the rankings. As we don't have a college system and the biggest clubs are never going to give up any cash to boost the little clubs, it'll end in tears.
Unfortunately that wouldnt be an overhaul of the Football system yet Sport as a whole in this country so would never happen - Its also a problem in the sense that clubs will be unable to sign English kids until at least the age of 21 (?) yet will be able to sign kids from abroad from a lot earlier
With regards to the crowd issues... the recent stats show that clubs can easily survive without crowds so think they're at the point already where they dont really care if they get a full stadium
When a Player then signs on the Draft System there are a number of conditions that have to be met
(1) The draft starts at the bottom with Macclesfield and Tranmere (the lowest clubs this season) getting the first picks unless deals are done
(2) A players contract has to be for four years... Gives Macclesfield etc. a chance to get into the Premier League with that player
(3) Transfers are done away with, players can only move clubs once their Contract is up (after that four year period it can be for any length of time)
Of course because Football is governed by the big clubs (How can AC Milan have a say when they've not been at the top table for a number of years now, or Man City have more of a say that anyone else when they were in League One only 20-years ago) anything like this will never change and in the same vein wouldnt be surprised if one day we saw Football turning into a complete City type Franchise; instead of getting Man City v Man Utd it would be Manchester v Beijing or London v Madrid, part of me just wants them to get on with it and bugger of so proper club Football for Charlton can get on with what we love
Make no bones about it, its the Premier League that owns Football here in England, they're the playground bully that the FA dont have the balls to stand up to and the Football League are the bully's side kick who knows what they're doing is wrong but because they dont want to lose that protection / friendship will go along with whatever they say.
Take the latest rules that changes allowing Premier League teams to cherry pick kids from EFL Academies for peanuts, the EFL should have told them to go to hell and the FA should have stuck up for them... Instead the Premier League were allowed to blackmail the EFL by basically demanding that if the new rule wasnt agreed then the money flowing down from the Premier League would lessen - Wouldnt be surprised if the same again was done for the U21 teams to get into the Football League Trophy, trouble is every few years they make a few more demands and you know they wont stop until they're properly controlled which wont ever happen
As @Croydon says... the Premier League is financially destroying English Football... Yet I cant see what more they could do to deliver the killing blow as they've already done so much damage
Yet Leeds have had more games on sky in the past season Than the vast majority of the other Championship teams
If no, then why do you all just accept it as a given?
There should be greater distribution amongst the football pyramid, not just to the select few. A place to start would be having clubs like Leeds on TV less often so that other clubs get the revenue and increased exposure. Although, given how we perform on TV, it'd result in less fans...
Yes, the whole sorry scenario is a problem of their (the FA's) own making, but you can't put the genii back in the bottle.