I raised the Rethinking League Two idea on a forum I post on and got a pretty comprehensive ticking off by the people who responded. The main objection - quite rightly - being that the idea is unworkable when teams are swapping leagues.
April 5, 2008
What would you do if you ran a football club that sat well outside of the top echelons of the sport? Everyone who wants it has access to watch the Premier League. Thanks to modern telly you can watch the best teams and the best games, regardless of where in the world you live.
April 4, 2008
I want to like the Telegraph’s new Champions League 3D feature that turned up on their website for this week’s Champions League games involving Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. It’s really nice technology, but the commentary that goes with it reverts to the state-the-bloody-obvious style that we find on TV.
April 3, 2008
We’ve seen how the teams that occupy the top spots in the Premier League have become increasingly easy to predict. In this post I have a chart that shows how the gap between the teams in first and fifth place have increased dramatically over recent years.
April 2, 2008
Looking at a club purely from a business perspective, you’ll often find lots of income and customers, but expenses that result in a net loss.
April 1, 2008
The reward structure of the Premier League is actually quite reasonable - the top club gets almost double the bottom club. The problem comes with the Champions League - the top four effectively double their Premier League earnings with a decent run in Europe, and therefore end up with four times as much as the bottom club
March 31, 2008
Arsene Wenger’s blind spot has become legion in footballing circles. “Doing a Wenger” has become synonymous with pretending not to see something that implicates one of your players.
That’s all well and good to a degree but there comes a point you’d have to assume that your audience are imbeciles if they’re going to buy it.
March 30, 2008
As a Chelsea supporter who had got my tickets for the Everton match and had booked my flights from Ireland for myself and my son, I find it difficult to understand how Sky can just step in at the last minute and upset the plans of the loyal fans who have spent a lot of money over the years following their team. Do the FA really care about the ordinary fan?
March 29, 2008
Can anyone help me figure out why the Everton v Chelsea match was switched from a weekend to a Thursday night?
What I can’t figure out is why either the early or the late television slot on the Saturday was not used - according to the BBC, they’re both open right now.
March 29, 2008
While I’m a big fan of not paying unnecessary taxes - and the Bernabeu is a fitting venue for any final - I have to ask the question:
What’s more important: Having the final you want, or saving a the players money that they’re too rich to spend anyway?