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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7232390.stm

Top clubs consider overseas games - The Premier League is considering the idea of staging some matches around the rest of the world.

Mmm.... dairyflat2008-02-08 08:35:24

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I would go to melbourne to see Arsenal play anybody quite frankly.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think it's a great idea but i dunno if they should extend it to 39 games in the process. Just leave it at 38 and do what the NFL does when they have played matches outside of the USA and incorporate it into the season itself.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The problem with not extending the season means someone has to sacrifice a home game, and with the revenue structure in place at most clubs, and the advantage home fans bring, no one would want to give it up.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yeah but 39 games is inconceivable i mean it throws the home & away structure out the window so unless sacrifices were made i can't see it happening.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Well the extra game would obviously be at a neutral venue for both teams.(19 home 19 away 1 nuetral). If you add it to near the start of the season it would just be like an extra pre season game except the points count.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yeah i think it should probably just stay as a pre season game.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

just a tad patronisng AS ALWAYS!!!

"Every time there is an evolutionary step, the reaction of the fans is not always great but I would ask them to take a step back and look at the positives."

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Should try for the SPL - I'd love to go to Rio de Janiero to see St Mirren v Motherwell!!

NOT

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ginger_eejit wrote:

Should try for the SPL - I'd love to go to Rio de Janiero to see St Mirren v Motherwell!!NOT

I'm sure the Cariocas would turn up in their tens of thousands for the game too.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

how cool would it be if chelsea, arsenal, man u, liverpool, everton etc if one of them came over and played the phoenix!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ginger_eejit wrote:

Should try for the SPL - I'd love to go to Rio de Janiero to see St Mirren v Motherwell!!

NOT

i would like to see rangers, celtic, hibs and hearts one of them come over here and exploit the football market and bring in more fans for the phoenix in the process!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yeah i mean that would be fine because it would just be a pre season tour like the ones they already go on. After reading more into this and how they plan to go about it i'm not so sure it would be such a good idea. Already there are several managers who hate the idea.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I must be an even older more curmudgeonly (first time i've tried that word), reactionary, luddite git than i thought

coz all i can think is, leave English football in England

not cos its crap (so as not to leave the critics an 'in'), but because it's like warm flat cask-conditioned beer, bloody good in context - but doesn't travel well

and, more importantly, no doubt if it was played in America they'd contaminate it - they water it down, chill it, call it some poncy names and generally f**k it up with ads and American w**kery

and it would eventually come back to England more like budweiser than Sam Smiths

those Yanquis do a good line in cowboy, but they are so determined to shove a dollar up the arse of sport that it makes me wince just to think about it

like i said old and boring - but hey, that's my schtick

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Won't happen, pre-season games at best ; Reading v Fulham at Westpac will be a ripper !!!!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

and espn would do the commentary and we'd have to listen to tommy smit wida y moaning on and on about how terrible everything is

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

what a horrible idea, the EPL just gets worse and worse every year.

still, I'll definitely be going to a game in Australia if it does happen.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

tigers wrote:

I must be an even older more curmudgeonly (first time i've tried that word), reactionary, luddite git than i thought

coz all i can think is, leave English football in England

not cos its crap (so as not to leave the critics an 'in'), but because it's like warm flat cask-conditioned beer, bloody good in context - but doesn't travel well

and, more importantly, no doubt if it was played in America they'd contaminate it - they water it down, chill it, call it some poncy names and generally f**k it up with ads and American w**kery

and it would eventually come back to England more like budweiser than Sam Smiths

those Yanquis do a good line in cowboy, but they are so determined to shove a dollar up the arse of sport that it makes me wince just to think about it

like i said old and boring - but hey, that's my schtick

agreed!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

tigers wrote:

I must be an even older more curmudgeonly (first time i've tried that word), reactionary, luddite git than i thought

...you were on a roll there...

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Its good to see so many people afraid of change, I'm guessing the people who are complaining in the UK now are the same ones who criticized the formation of the premier league.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/08022008/4/wenger-wary-motives.html

I think this is a more well thought out response than some of the knee-jerk reactions i have been reading.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

What cracks me up is one of the Players union reps saying this is treating the players as commodities.

What? Surely not? ï¿½20m price tags the result of market forces....and these players are not commodities? Please....

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Pre season or post season friendlies. Do like the Aussie Cricket, get say Man City V Spurs down here and have the Nix play in a triangular tournament. Like wise Man U V Arsenal V Sydney in a triangular over in Perth! errr I meant Sydney!

Newcastle V Blackburn and some South African side in Durban etc etc.

The Premier League is sad enough as it is without making it that global, that's what satellite TV is for.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

UberGunner wrote:

Its good to see so many people afraid of change, I'm guessing the people who are complaining in the UK now are the same ones who criticized the formation of the premier league.

Criticised the formation? Rightly so. Look what we've got since the introduction. A league dominated by FOUR clubs. The ever widening gap between the top and second tiers. The premier league has been great CASHWISE but a joke FOOTBALL WISE.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

dairyflat wrote:

UberGunner wrote:

Its good to see so many people afraid of change, I'm guessing the people who are complaining in the UK now are the same ones who criticized the formation of the premier league.

Yes Dairyflat you are 100% correct,

it has not improved the football throughout the league, it's created four super clubs and the rest are really also rans.

Notice the number of clubs now in financial ruin and going into administration as a result. It wont be that long before some even in the Championship go extinct.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

here's a piece on this, which demanded a bit of concentration (especially pre-coffee) but makes some good points, imo

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-premier-leagues-idiocy-driven-by-same-impulse-that-killed-the-brooklyn-dodgers-780221.html

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

stern stuff -

We didn't get the World Cup, only a tragically reduced FA Cup which is now the tournament of convenience ï¿½ and one for which a player of Reading said recently he wouldn't "give a sh*t".

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Found elsewhere on the same subject -

39 matches - Oh great, Liverpool have Torres playing in Spain for a home
International friendly on the Wednesday, Masherano playing for Argentina
in Brazil in a WC qualifier on the Thursday, but the Liverpool is due
to play Manchester United in J'burg on the Monday night, before fronting
up to a Champion's League match in Rome on the Thursday night, before
playing Fulham at Craven Cottage on the Sunday.

Not sure how much of this to believe as it is from the Daily Mail. However,they maintain that there is opposition to the idea - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=513497&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

dairyflat2008-02-11 11:46:20

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

It will be interesting to see if the fans from all clubs in England who are against this idea are prepared to join together and take action. Rather than a lot of hot air which is what has happened in the past.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

FFA has said "no thanks"

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/70074,ffa-say-final-no-to-epl-games.aspx

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