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A solution
If the Premier League needs to lose two teams, how about Liverpool and Man Utd Just f ** k off and play friendlies for the rest of eternity. I’m pretty sure the rest of the Premier League won’t miss out.
Chris Stockdale, NUFC
EFL needs Big Six in League Cup
I’ve seen a lot of people suggest that Champions League clubs should not compete in the League Cup (I agree), but the problem is that EFL clubs don’t want this and are unlikely to vote in favor .
Being attracted to teams like Liverpool, United, etc. it is a great source of income for lower league clubs. So much so that many of them would rather reduce their chances of progression by playing with a great premier team (so they can get the revenue from shared revenue) than by playing against a team in a lower league than themselves, where the chances of progression are greater. higher.
The cup is just a fairy tale for fans to revel in a possible Rocky-style losers story. For clubs (at all levels) it’s all about the huge financial windfall. For some lower-league clubs, a draw at Old Trafford can pay for club costs for 2-3 months and stay afloat.
Take those ‘big sticks’ out of that trophy and you take the money too. They will never vote for it, because they can’t.
Leeward
Could the FA Cup be a Project Big Picture winner?
I want to raise a point that I have been discussing with friends regarding the Project Big Picture, whether it happens or not, I believe that the elimination of the League Cup could usher in a new dawn for the FA Cup. A once majestic competition that has been quite run down and degraded over the years. Without the League Cup, the oldest cup competition in the world would become the only major cup competition in the country. Are you sure that would get you more sponsors and more funding? Plus, with one less trophy to compete for, could you help make players and clubs want you more?
Of course, he can never be the giant he once was, as money talks and CL’s rating is now the holy grail, but I thought it might help restore some prestige and gain a little more attention to the old . Just a thought.
Chris, Guildford
Laughing at the useless FA
FAs are really ridiculous. Greg Clarke looks like a Trumpian from English football. Totally oblivious to the fact that the current FA is not representative of football in England, on any level, and it hasn’t been for a long time, but pretending to be the bastion of all that is good and true.
Essentially a group of white geriatrics who are so divorced from the modern reality of the game, the FA does not help the true grassroots game or the high-level professional game.
So instead of acknowledging that they have been sitting on their butt for the past 30 years, building an anchor in a national stadium, ignoring the racial inequality of the FA government, they seem to ruin all the important decisions they have made recently; they would rather condemn the Big Picture report.
No, they prefer to threaten writers for having the recklessness to propose ideas and threaten them with expulsion from European competitions. I guess Greg Clarke hasn’t been following all the ‘leaks’ about creating a European Super League. Even UEFA is concerned enough about the possibility of a getaway to rethink its prized European competitions. Therefore, making the FA go to UEFA may not have the desired results.
Is the Project Big Picture perfect, ideal, or even a good thing? I’m not sure. It’s an attempt to help lemmings-loving EFL clubs that are jumping a cliff of overspending that the Coronavirus has brought closer. It’s certainly more of a proposition than anything we’ve seen from the FA.
Listening to Greg Clarke reminded me of the classic line from The Simpsons: “We haven’t tried anything and we’ve run out of ideas.”
Paul mcdevitt
Double standards of the big clubs
Project Big Picture has been a controversial topic in recent days, but there is a completely different topic that I would like to share here, as a fan on foreign soil.
Since last year, several official fan clubs of the big clubs in England (including my Liverpool team) and in Europe from my hometown, Hong Kong, have been stripped of their “official” status, for which statements have been released. policies. (statements condemning police brutality in Hong Kong and the repression of freedom and democracy by the Chinese authoritarian regime), with clubs declaring that they do not want to get involved in politics.
You would have thought that LFC, with its recent history, would be more sympathetic to victims of police brutality and lies, but no, all we get is a warning that there will be no more political statements and then it will strip itself of “official” status. ”. Today my friend, a committee of the official Hong Kong Juventus fan club, told me that his fan club was facing the same fate, again due to the official fan club (China affiliate) informed the Juventus on the political statement made some time ago.
Fast forward to half a year later, to our horror / surprise we are seeing various clubs (especially the big clubs) take the initiative to release statements about the BLM campaign, even allowing players to repeatedly kneel before matches, up front. weekly from a worldwide audience. Last time I checked, BLM also started police brutality and I guess no one would say that BLM is not a political issue.
So why the double standard? Is it because BLM is more commercial, while speaking out against the Chinese authoritarian regime doesn’t help the business side much? So should things be? Not that we cared much about the “official fan club” status, I am not even a member, but these incidents are really disappointing, the difference in attitude is leaving a very bitter taste in our mouths.
Sam S. LFC, Hong Kong
Managers didn’t get a chance
Yesterday Ferg from Cork pointed out that I had incorrectly claimed that Shearer was in charge of Newcastle during the 15/16 campaign, when he was in command during 08/09, the first to lose for calling that, I realized. my mistake once I read my mail the next day, ouch, sorry right there, but it got me thinking, which manager do you think was never given enough time or an opportunity at a certain club, how do you think there could be result for them if they had?
For any Chelsea fan, the one that sticks in my mind would be Carlo Ancelotti, now I know we won the Champions League the following season after he was fired, but would we have won, dare I say it, multiple Champions League titles? ? His watch is food for thought, as his Chelsea team was something amazing and getting fired for finishing second behind top-class United still hurts.
Mikey, CFC (100% test read this email, I promise)
From the dead
If you could bring back a retired / dead England player to this current team, who would you pick and why?
Alex, London (I love the League Cup even though my team has never won it)
Similar corner
Surely Michael Ballack and Matt Damon are waiting for a scream for the football-like? See also Oscar and James Franco!
Amrith (CFC)
… Are we finishing all the mailboxes with knockoffs now? I hope so! In that case, let me invite you to some of my personal favorites …
Watford’s serial flop, Quique Sánchez Flores, is Hugh Laurie’s double.
Didier Deschamps = Beaker of the Muppets.
Current Cantona = Captain Haddock (maybe throwing some sardines from the trawler)
Jesse Lingard = Karim Zeroual. (Surprised that the Lingard Lookalike of the Week didn’t notice this)
Scott McTominay = Enrique’s Mole from the first Bo ‘Selecta series! (It’s the mouth that does it)
Lee (In my mind I look like a handsome young Gabriel Batistuta. Actually, probably more like Rik Mayall from the Bottom era)
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