It depends on your definition of entertaining. If you like long ball tactics and no football on the ground yes the PL is the most “entertaining” and MLS along with every other league in this hemisphere is garbage. If you are American like me, you support your domestic game and domestic league. You are NOT a supporter of this game in this country if all you do is go to pubs and watch English footy and not try and grow the game here. MLS may be crap by some definitions (or a very good product by others) but putting it down doesn’t help anyone.

It won’t happen because countries would rather see their clubs get the money instead of the English.

It works with the NFL because it’s one-of-a-kind.

Also, if English fans find it hard to get excited about a 0-0 draw between Wigan and Derby, do you think fans in Mumbai will be any different? And let’s be clear, most of these games will be held in Asia, not the US, as that’s where the markets are.

If Scudamore and co. were serious about jolting fans out of this supposed stupor, they’d introduce cheaper tickets (the Bundesliga manages it) or foster a system where clubs outside of the so-called Big Four manage to have a sniff of some silverware, or ensure the PL stops completely devaluing the FA Cup, or set up a grassroots system that might actually produce talented homegrown players, like the French, Dutch, Argentine and Brazilians manage to do, consistently. What they shouldn’t do is introduce a hair brained scheme that’s so transparently about money and alienating to clubs’ core support.

That’s not even going into how it would screw up a perfectly simple, elegant and symmetrical system for deciding the league champions – a system that has existed for over a century.

I’m not against innovation and change – but if there is an argument for shaking things up, Gaffer, this isn’t it.