Premier League Relegation to end?

[The Professor]

Spot on comments here.  The joke is the Premiership is the least competitive competition in football.  Who will win this so called coveted title?  Will it be a) Man Utd, b) Chelsea, c) Manchester City - can anyone see any other team who stands even an outside chance of winning it?

They are not football clubs, they are brands.  The need to generate large sums of money to buy foreign stars & hence all the marketing efforts are aimed at the Far East where gullible Chinese, Japanese,Koreans & others are duped into buying overpriced shirts that are probably made  in the sweatshops of their near neighbours. It's all hype & uber-hype. I get so annoyed when I'm asked which Premiership side I support. I tell people I support Swindon Town - end of!  I live outside of Swindon (Nottingham actually) and get to most Saturday home games & several away games too. I love going to League One & Two games.  I have no interest in these phoney foreign owned brands & would be delirious if they do go their own way, break away from the FA to form a European League or whatever.  Interest is already declining & such a move will only hasten the demise of these brands.

[Nemo]

Spot on comments here.  The joke is the Premiership is the least competitive competition in football.

Objection: The SPL.

[jonny72]

Spot on comments here.  The joke is the Premiership is the least competitive competition in football.  Who will win this so called coveted title?  Will it be a) Man Utd, b) Chelsea, c) Manchester City - can anyone see any other team who stands even an outside chance of winning it?

Bollocks. You can add La Liga to the SPL for being less competitive. The other difference is our dominant teams frequently change, Arsenal seem to be dropping off the pace at present, Chelsea and Man City will drop off when their owners have had enough of pissing their money away, Fergusson will retire and so on.

[bigbobjoylove]

Oh for some common sense over here ala Germany. Fan owned clubs, safe standing, cheap tickets, alcohol while watching the game, everything seemly geared for the people in the stands not for the people 2,000 miles away infront of their tv's.

[Bob's Orange]

Oh for some common sense over here ala Germany. Fan owned clubs, safe standing, cheap tickets, alcohol while watching the game, everything seemly geared for the people in the stands not for the people 2,000 miles away infront of their tv's.

I love German football. I haven't been to a game yet but the atmosphere looks incredible at the matches.

I was in Germany on Saturday and their Saturday afternoon matches are all covered live. They show 5 minutes of each game and then switch between matches when there are goals. The passion for football in Germany is brilliant, with packed stadiums and massive travelling support.

I watched the end of Schalke v Kaiserslauten and after the game, the travelling Kaiserslauten supporters stayed behind and each and every one of their players and travelling coaches went over to the fans and celebrated with them. A kind of togetherness that you don't see in the Premiership.

Oh and Jan the man was on the panel commentating for German TV at the game.

[Gelbfüßler]

I watched the end of Schalke v Kaiserslauten and after the game, the travelling Kaiserslauten supporters stayed behind and each and every one of their players and travelling coaches went over to the fans and celebrated with them. A kind of togetherness that you don't see in the Premiership.

Agreed - I love that when things are going well.

On the other hand - when I went to 1860 vs KSC at the Allianz Arena in March (KSC lost 5-1), all the KSC fans (including me) stayed behind at the end and the Karlsruhe team came over about 10 minutes after full time to be greeted with a torrent of abuse and hand signals, culminating in Timo Staffeldt having a full blown argument with some idiot in the front row (one of the hundred or so that was sat on the top of the fence between stand and pitch). Dark days - not looking too much better this season either.

[Matchworn Shirts]

I have not been to the Allianz Arena and never will. Its owned by the arrogant other team in Munich, and 1860 need to go back to our proper home.

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[Gelbfüßler]

What are 'Zivicops'?

Thought you supported Bayern? Are you talking about the Grünwalder Stadion? Went there in March as well as the Olympiastadion. The Grünwalder Stadion looks like it would be perfect for die Löwen.

[SirWinston]

The most interesting part of the Premier League in recent years has been the relegation scrap, so doing away with that would pretty much kill it off.  Personally, if they cut themselves off I couldn't give a toss.  God forbid if we ever got there again, there'd be cock all chance of me being able to justify season tickets for my lad and I (although to be fair we'd probably both be pensioners by then, so discounts would apply!!).

I thoroughly enjoy watching us playing non-Premier League sides and am pretty happy bimbling along in the bottom two divisions although a nice excursion into the Championship for a couple of seasons every decade wouldn't go amiss.

[Summerof69]

Apparently the FA has a 'golden share' to block any agreement they don't like, so you can safely say this is not going to happen.