This ridiculous idea completely underestimates the power and the input from proper English fans to their clubs. For years we support our teams and now Richard Scudamore turns around and does a big "F*** You!" and says we are going to play somewhere you cant afford to watch. If it happens, they don't get another penny of my money, I'll cancel my season ticket as protest untill they scrap the idea. I suggest everyone else does the same. A boycott of this kind means that the money grabbers who suggested the idea in the first place will lose out in the end, and eventually will have no choice but to give in. Everyone who reads this, please sign the petition at http://www.fsf.org.uk. It already has over 10,000 signatures but pathetically that is not even half the average Premier League capacity.
The idea is to create a 39th step in which all teams in the Premier League will play abroad for one game, which will count towards the title or relegation at the end of the season. The suggested places where the games should be played include Asia, Australia and the USA - all of whom have publicly rejected the idea. Supposing Japan ends up with Wigan v Reading, possibly a crunch relegation fixture which all die hard fans will want to attend, and all who turn up are 2000 weird Japanese football fanatics? Have we made money? No, have we lost money? Quite probably. This proposal will almost certainly not be profitable for clubs like these because, quite frankly, who is going to turn up and/or pay money to see this if they are not fans. I for one would not pay lots of money to see Murcia v Getafe if the Spanish League decided to come over here. Granted, I would love to see Real Madrid v Barcelona, but I do not expect them to come over to England just for us to watch. I will go over to Spain to watch that game when I have the time or the money. This should be the same for anyone else as regarding the English game.
In 2018, England hope to hold the World Cup, and to do this we need the support of the rest of the World's Football Associations. The Asian FA, having rejected the proposal from Scudamore, are not likely to do us any favours in terms of the World Cup bid, should we go ahead and ignore everything they have to say. Does Scudamore really want to pass up this big money spinning opportunity to bring most of the World to spend their money on our shores? I'm not sure he does. My advice is, scrap the idea, apologise to all football fans all over the country (of whom the majority now hate him) and forget all about it, because if anything can be objected to on such a large scale, it is never going to work.
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Good post.
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