Change to the Playoffs…With expansion from 4 to 6 teams.
Boo. League consistency should could for more not less. 6 teams, aka 8th place in a fairly even division, means some fairly ordinary sides that go on a rich vein of form for 10 games can end up in the PL where they will get absolutely spanked.
Club could do that anyhow and we’ve seen teams get spanked.
Sunderland were a whole 24 points off the top two and yet are the best of those that came up.
7th and 8th were only 2 points off 6th last season.
Millwall fined 45,000 pounds for offensive chanting in League Cup tie
Suprise!
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Roy Hodgson (78) in as interim at Bristol.
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Fuming at FSG now…
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As much as I like new teams I’d rather not see Millwall go up.
Looks pretty much like Coventry will be heading up.
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Quite an impressive turnaround for Coventry. Not sure how long ago it was that they had to play elsewhere, but they were all the way down in League 2.
Millwall would be…interesting.
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I read another article that up to half of Premier League clubs are struggling to find shirt sponsorship with the ban on gambling firms coming in. I don’t know whether that would have a knock on effect to the Championship, with potential sponsors able to afford higher placed teams.
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Football League is 138 years old today
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Looks like that might be it for Leicester. Even a points deduction for WBA looks unlikely to save them from the drop. Premier League Champions to League One in a decade just seems unimaginable.
Mood amongst the fan base is horrendous. Suspect Tuesdays game will see more protests against the owners who seem completely lost. They’ve one of the best training grounds in the country and would have the 13th largest stadium in the PL if they were in it. Time and again the expansion of it has been put off and it looks like that won’t be happening or be needed any time soon.
The contracts some of those players are on is mind boggling. Think 6 of the top 10 highest paid players in the Championship play for Leicester. They’ll clear some of those with contracts expiring this summer but they’re mainly the players you might have been able to get some kind of fee for.
It’s such a bleak picture with pretty much no positive shoots anywhere. From the highest of highs to L1 with few of the fans I know holding much hope of a quick return.
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No disrespect to Leicester but I’d suggest many fans 30 years ago would bite your arm off for the ride they’ve had. To win the PL was beyond their dreams and when you consider how highly regarded the team was in the era of Muzzy Izzet, Robbie Savage, Emile Heskey and Martin O’Neil, it makes you realise that a few seasons in League 1 is just part of the journey and winning the PL makes it all worthwhile.
Coventry coming up reminded me of a match I went to watch at Highfield Road. Have just looked it up and it was in 1973. We won 2-1 with 2 goals from Phil Boersma but the substitute was a lad called Peter Spiring who cost us £60000 (a fair fee in those days?) and he didn’t get on and never actually made a single appearance for the first team. Who remembers him I wonder?
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Apparently, we sold him to Luton for £70,000 in 1974.
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Happy to see a “new” club, stadium and city in the league. Refreshing.
Last time they were in the PL, that was my first season as a Liverpool fan.
Had some decent players.
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Oh of course they’ve enjoyed the ride but I think that makes the capitulation so much harder. They should be a premier league club but that fall has been so quick there’s genuine concern about how they come back from here.
The most effort he’s given to anything for about two seasons.
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