[Football]Premier league abroad?

[leviathane]

Could be having a couple matches played abroad.
Premier League Eye Overseas Games - Yahoo! Eurosport UK

 

[Corran]

read about it, dont agree with it.

If the season is tight, like it currently is, then an extra game could give someone an unfair advantage.

For instance. Arsenal top of the league by 2 points after 38 games, Man United in 2nd.

The abroad match draw is made.
Arsenal get drawn against the 6th place team (as top 5 cant be drawn against each other)
Man United get drawn against 20th place team.

This means it is more likely that United will pick up 3 points then arsenal, thus they could lose the league.
On top of these it pulls the matches away from the actual local fans and thus supporters may miss what could be the biggest game of the season.

Ack. never mind. As normal the sport will go where the money is as that is what is important now days.

 

[Vladamir]

Sounds like a load of shite to me.

 

[Lollie]

managers have been banging on about playing too many matches as it is, this isnt going to help, and tbh it'll be like a home game for man utd anyways due to the stupidily large glory hunting following the have in the countries involved

 

[soze]

I do not like this its an extra game and if its random you could get a title decider where Arsenal got Derby and Man U got Liverpool not really fair. An exibition game is one thing but if its a real game that hold league points i do not like it. Unless Arsenal get Derby and Man U get Liverpool

Plus where in the world will you sell out a stadium for Derby vs Bolton ect

 

[Cadelin]

Plus where in the world will you sell out a stadium for Derby vs Bolton ect

I am sure all games would easily sell out because it would be a huge novelty for a vast number of foreign fans.

The idea stinks. The part I find worse is the "seeding for top 5 clubs" which tells us exactly who this idea is meant to benifit. The difference between coming 17th and 18th in the league is much bigger than the difference between say 2nd and 3rd. Yet Fulham could find themselves against Man U and Sunderland find themselves against Derby.

I guess the next move is to remove English from the name. We have already seen some teams (Arsenal) field all foreign teams and if they also start playing abroad the only english elements would be the commentators and pundits.