Comments on: The Spurs Have Come Marching In

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:44:43 +0000

And as far as whether I personally am for it or against it, I’m against it in all leagues other than MLS. Promotion and relegation is strictly a soccer-specific concept and doesn’t have any traction in other sports.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:43:40 +0000

Are you only talking about MLS, or other professional sporting leagues as well?

I can tell you that in other leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL), promotion and relegation will NEVER happen. It’s just that simple. These major league sporting franchises are loaded with money and would not stand for possibly going down to a minor league based on performance. That would also render the whole concept of player drafts meaningless as well.

As far as MLS goes, I’d venture to say that at some point in the very, very distant future, relegation and promotion could happen but I still think it’s unlikely.

The difference between professional leagues in America and Europe is that there is such a gap in quality between major league teams and minor league teams. We’ve seen in the FA Cup and Carling Cup and other competitions across Europe where lower-league teams play top-league teams that the lower-league teams have relatively high chances to win games. In America, you would never see a minor league team beating a major league team in a competitive game in any sport; major league teams just have players that are so much better at their craft.

By: Alex Hleb

Alex Hleb — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:21:49 +0000

hey michael this is a little off topic, but what do you think about promotion and relegation in the states? are you for it or against it in the us? do you think its a possibility within the next 50 years or so to have one of the leagues, atleast mls to implement the european system?

By: dragonki2012

dragonki2012 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:58:45 +0000

Teh 39 games…
Hmmm.
The world doesn’t want to see Birmingham City(I never wanna see them again) vs Wigan.
They wanna see Arsenal vs Manchester United.
The reality is, it won’t happen happen people. Year after year you’d be seeing West Ham against lets say Newcastle, yawn.

So keep the best league in the world in England and don’t share, it’s okay to be selfish for once.

And I’m an Arsenal fan, I just wanna congratulate Spurs on the victory. That’s a first of many under Ramos.
He’s something isn’t he?
I can tell how much the teams changed by the amount of pounds Huddlestone has lost lol.
But Spurs beware, just cuz u beat us once in 9 years doesn’t mean it will become a regular thing.

By: Alex Hleb

Alex Hleb — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:11:12 +0000

i agree with cftv….in 20 years this will be what you will get with football….a superleague..its inevitable…..comprising of..

arsenal,man u, liverpool, chelsea, celtic, rangers, barcelona, real madrid, valencia, villareal/sevilla, ac milan, inter milan, juventus, roma, lyon, marseille, bayern mun, shalke, and another 2-6 teams from europe for either a league of 20-24 teams and while it will be in a single table, the teams will be in “virtual” divisions(per country) so that the bottom team(lowest points) of each country represented will be relegated to the top league of their country while the top team of that country will be promoted to the “super league”. maybe it will simply be called the uefa league? its inevitable from the business stand point. anyway, theres a trend for globalization.