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Publication date: Saturday May 9, 2020 2:07
Inconvenible. Even in the Coronavirus, B teams refuse to leave. It is time for them to be buried forever.
It was inevitable that within a few weeks of the Coronavirus kicking into action, spreading uncertainty and fear throughout the game, Premier League Teams B would raise their ugly heads as a biased solution to maintain the football pyramid.
Dan Ashworth, or Bobby Buzzword as he should have been christened, the man who when the FA Technical Director was unable to mold a top-level team to overcome Croatia, despite an unprecedented period of wealth and talent in the Premier League , comes armed with a message.
“Premier League” B “teams could be called to save EFL, warns former FA chief Dan Ashworth,” says a piece by John Cross in the Daily mirror, something as welcome to fans of the lower leagues as a judo display in a supermarket queue from a social distance.
Obviously Ashworth, now in Brighton, was unable to suggest a basic redistribution of in-game funds to correct historical football mistake of a separatist league in 1992 that flew in front of sports values. Instead, another eureka moment almost as bright as those little lights on the elementary school electrical circuits.
“A few years ago, we explored strategic loan clubs, B teams, partner clubs, that sort of thing … Maybe things like that come back on the table because if there is a shortage of money and everyone has to cut their cloth accordingly.”
Unfortunately for Dan, all the ideas were thrown into the gutter by antagonistic fans and clubs. in 2014 when Greg Dyke first suggested creating a new League Three combining the top half of the Conference and ten Premier League B teams as part of his commission in England. Everything Dyke was doing at the helm of the FA after making a breakaway Premier League scandal in 1992 is unknown, but his bastard son of a document to provide more opportunities for young English players received outright mockery from those who keep the industry going. : supporters
Even the back route of the B teams in the Football League Trophy was met with the most committed and organized boycott of matches in the history of English football, with haunting grounds and a Half Man Half Biscuit soundtrack.
“Strategic Loan Associations” and “Partner Clubs”? Another buzzword festival and one of Ashworth’s favorite ideas. It basically means much higher levels of brand control and influence for Premier League clubs, but it still hasn’t answered the basic question of “why don’t you lend to players you don’t use the way you used to?”
Meanwhile, Ashworth’s suggestions for “share the ground” and “artificial parcels” add to little more than the EFL becoming a permanent second-class product. Will the Premier League consider plastic releases? Are they going to be silly?
Again, the only line of any use for Alan Sugar about football comes to mind: about the “prune juice passes” effect of money on football and how lower league clubs should have been built with adequate funds and provision of youth during the big money era instead of receiving almost enough cash for live and their academies ransacked by the Elite Player Performance Plan.
Ashworth’s ideas are like finding a sinkhole in the English game and trying to hook it up with sherbet. He is flogging a level of dead horse red rum in B teams. Let’s keep him buried.
As Accrington Stanley President Andy Holt said on Saturday morning, who has been explaining the need for a fairer distribution of the accumulated wealth of English football for several years:
And so it begins. Newspaper articles that give out to football clubs.
I should have been clairvoyant …
‘If you want help from @premierleague What are you willing to give He said @EFL board. (before Rick Parry’s presidency)
Let’s see. https://t.co/7Ha8kWWVsp
– Andyh (@AndyhHolt) May 9, 2020
Meanwhile, fans are preparing for an upcoming fight. Many would rather their clubs play in the park than participate in a B team-ridden soul death league.
Tom reed is on Twitter
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