the gravy train lumbers on....

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.... for the select few clubs.

I am sure that we are regularly told that the EPL is too big and needs to be reduced in size. But apparently fatigue doesn't extend to playing in lucrative European competitions. And if you are Liverpool or Man United, the coefficient rule means that you can probably climb abroad even if you finish tenth.

The consequences for the rest of us? Well, Cup replays will probably vanish altogether. You might eventually find that Cup games and ever more League games get moved into midweek when they realise that TV audiences for the EuroGroupWank will probably be bigger at the weekend.

If you are a fan of a smaller club, you aren't even a consideration. If you are a subscriber to Sky and the like, regrettably, you are underwriting this, whether you intend to or not.

Football isn't like the NFL ; travelling often long distances to watch games is part of the culture here in a way that it isn't over there. But the two might start to look more and more similar as we go forward. Speaking as someone who loves both, I think it is a shame that both cultures can't co-exist. But when TV broadcasters effectively bankroll the sport, then one of those cultures almost certainly has to go.

 
At all levels, it’s an outstandingly shite idea, loved only by bean counters and execs at the global clubs.

No one else wants more European games, not even the fans of teams in it.

No one else wants a system where sporting achievement is trumped by your UEFA coefficient.

And the rest of us, who don’t support those teams, dont want any of it.

The first thing the EPL and EFL could do is to say to EUFA, eff this nonsense about not playing at the same time as your games, you have changed the rules so we will play and televise EPL and EFL games free to air on the same nights.
 
STOP PRESS .......

decision possibly delayed as the clubs and UEFA are rowing about commercial rights. Put your own caption here.
 
The wildcard qualification is just plain wrong, ridiculous decision. Obviously they're doing it so there will be no opportunity for the so called top clubs to ever lose out on European revenue, but that also means domestically there is even less chance of another club breaking into the top six. Just form you're own league ffs and put everyone out of their misery.

I stopped watching European football several years ago, the qualification process has become so drawn out that it's taken the excitement out of most games.
 
Once the European League is established it may start with promotion and relegation to and from the national leagues but, as with the women's game in this country, it will eventually become invitation-based, with the big cities providing most, if not all, of the teams.
 
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I don't see what the problem is because football has gone down a road of inevitability for a while, and the OP needs to realise that it IS becoming just like the NFL.

The bigger clubs dont want away fans in their ground because of the £30 rule and have been concentrating on reducing away capacities, just so they can sell more seats at a bigger cost to their own supporters.

Whatever is happening at the top of the game is borne from the new demographic of the armchair fan, and no protest or complaints will get anywhere unless that stops.

Strap yourself in for a very bumpy ride.
 
Problem with KFC is they keep using staff in the wrong positions.
Good point that

The one near me as had considerable investment and had undertaken an ambitious refit 'project'

It doesn't always seem as good though

Mistakes are happening with the drive through

I can only think its because they have changed the manager

Still time to get it sorted before the customers come back into the restaurant
 
Good point that

The one near me as had considerable investment and had undertaken an ambitious refit 'project'

It doesn't always seem as good though

Mistakes are happening with the drive through

I can only think its because they have changed the manager

Still time to get it sorted before the customers come back into the restaurant
That's the thing with managers learning on the job.
 
This generation of people come along, make decisions based on money that spoil football as a sport even more than the generation before, die, and then a new generation of people get born, come along, only think of money and spoil the sport even more. Maybe one day, a generation will be born who will reject decisions based on money and try to put the sport back at the centre of their decision making.
 
KFC gravy is surprisingly top notch.
When cleaning the friers out, they filter the oil to be recycle. The crap that’s left at the bottom is mixed with water to make the gravy. They seem to be proud of this, obviously not norther, or seen how proper gravy is made.
back on post, the big teams will probably come into cup games at an even later round.
 
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