Some of the EPL teams came over here for friendlies and I think that’s fine – perhaps even have EPL vs. EPL teams in off-season friendlies, but not League matches. There’s such a thing as squeezing the Golden Goose too hard.

Dragonki, I completely understand your point about the player getting fatigued and that would have its effects for the next few games, thus diluting the product. From what I’ve read though, the plan is to give teams the week off before and after this round of games to help address that issue.

As Jeff said, it could be tricky in figuring out who that third game would be against for each team. I would safely assume there would be no derby matches played abroad, and the plan calls for the top four teams to be protected from playing against each other.

In my post, I never really talked about it why I’m in favor of this plan; I spent most of the time addressing why fans should learn to embrace this possibility. A chance to see a competitive match from the most entertaining league in the world in person is something that I, and a lot of others, couldn’t pass up. Why shouldn’t the Premier League take the great thing they have going and bring it to the world? It’s a win-win proposition: They make money, and the fans get to enjoy a closer glimpse into the Premiership.

As I said, I’d love to go on and on but there’s not enough time to cover this story from every angle. I understand why people are opposed to it and that’s obviously fine.

Good debate everyone.

As it stands now, yes, it means a team will have to play 1 team three times and everybody else twice. So somebody could end up with an extra match against Manchester United while, at the other end, somebody gets an extra match with somebody like Derby County.

To me, this plan is doomed because of this aspect. When, not if, somebody gets knocked out of the title, European competition, or the league period because of such circumstances, you will never will hear the end of it.

I’ll go if it happens. But this plan, quite frankly, stinks.

I have never seen and heard of something so contrived and so money driven in professional sports and American sports which don’t hold my interest any more on the professional level are about as corporate and money driven as they get. I could go on and on about this but the readers have heard all my arguments before. This is totally unacceptable and I believe FIFA should threaten to shut down the Premier League and force all of its clubs back to the Coca Cola Football League if this goes forward. Holding competitive matches in nations that already have FIFA sanctioned first divisions is ILLEGAL. If FIFA does nothing the world body itself is useless and should be dissolved.