Collymore: End relegation, bring back the big clubs

[John83]

I'm not sure this is worth a thread of its own, but Stan Collymore reckons the Premiership needs to end relegation and bring in Leeds and Newcastle (http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/stan-collymore/To-make-the-Premier-League-the-best-get-Leeds-and-Newcastle-back-get-rid-of-small-clubs-and-scrap-relegation-and-promotion-article201025.html).

As retarded as that sounded when people were proposing it for the eL (as it was at the time)... wow.

[Lionel Ritchie]

I stopped reading after "Englands punitive taxation". Spanish find a tax loophole that allows them pay scandalous money tax free so all of a sudden expecting wealthy people to pay tax is punitive.

As for the "proposal". The idea isn't new. Many big clubs want to bolt the door behind them. Remember the "European Super League" in which the fragrant Alex wanted unrelegatable permanent member status for the G14 in a league that was only going to have 18 clubs?

I'm a Leeds United supporter. I'm happier in the 3rd flight on merit than the 1st on gates.

[pineapple stu]

So I think we should forget the 39th game and just have the top 25 clubs in the country playing 50 games.
Sums up the intelligence level behind the article, I think.

[John83]

I stopped reading after "Englands punitive taxation". Spanish find a tax loophole that allows them pay scandalous money tax free so all of a sudden expecting wealthy people to pay tax is punitive.
I recommend continuing - it's quite funny.


As for the "proposal". The idea isn't new. Many big clubs want to bolt the door behind them. Remember the "European Super League" in which the fragrant Alex wanted unrelegatable permanent member status for the G14 in a league that was only going to have 18 clubs?
Yes. It'll probably happen eventually too, short of the billionaires investing in the Premiership in the past few years making it the de facto super league. There's just too much money involved. Clubs stopped being sports clubs and started being multinational businesses long ago, and stopping them from forming that super league will be ruled restraint of trade sooner or later.


I'm a Leeds United supporter. I'm happier in the 3rd flight on merit than the 1st on gates.
Damn right.


Sums up the intelligence level behind the article, I think.
I assumed he meant to suggest scrapping the cups too, which would even things out a bit.

[pineapple stu]

A 25-team league is how many games...?

[John83]

A 25-team league is how many games...?
Ah, very good. Yes, I'd mistaken your objection as 50>39. Though, that said, a 20 team league has how many games?

[Cymro]

Hey, maybe if Swansea built a 50,000-seater and started giving away tickets at £5 a pop, we could get in too! Surely TV money and possible European football would offset the difference of virtually giving away admission to home games. Oh, and the South Wales derby in the Premier League every year? Tasty.....

Silly idea, but then what do you expect from Collymore? It's almost as bad as the suggestion made by the chairman of the PFA a while back that we should scrap draws and play extra-time and penalties in league play. In fact, scrap that, it's probably worse. It would kill the competitive element in the bottom half in the 2nd half of the year as those teams will have nothing to play for, and would completely bu99er up lower league football.

To be honest, I think just temporarily forgot he had a job and realised "oh crap, got that Mirror thing due on Monday" and just rushed something out in 15 minutes on the morning of the due date. It certainly reads as though he didn't think it through.

[Morbo]

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So I think we should forget the 39th game and just have the top 25 clubs in the country playing 50 games.

Haha perfect way to finish the most ridiculous article I've probably ever read.

[jebus]

I like the way he says that small clubs will be happy being excluded cause they're normally rubbish and used to playing rubbish teams anyway

Collymore, what a guy