Foreign owners 'want end to Premier League relegation'

[PAH]

sport is more inclusive if the result doesn't matter.

Blame it on the decades of England underachieving at football.

[Bunk]

non. From the article in the original post:

Aston Villa (Randy Lerner)
Blackburn (Venky's Group)
Chelsea (Roman Abramovich)
Fulham (Mohamed Al Fayed)
Liverpool (Fenway Sports Group)
Manchester United (Glazer family)
Manchester City (Sheikh Mansour)
Sunderland (Ellis Short)
QPR (Tony Fernandes)
*Arsenal's Stan Kroenke is a majority shareholder

5 of those (Lerner, Fenway, Glazers, Short and Kroenke) are American, so it's not far off being most of them.

[SimonMac]

Nothing to worry about, all the FA have to do is stop awarding its European Qualification slots to the teams in the Premier League. I think they will quickly lose interested without Champions League money

[TheFaQQer]

Most of the foreign owners are septics non?

non. From the article in the original post:

Aston Villa (Randy Lerner)
Blackburn (Venky's Group)
Chelsea (Roman Abramovich)
Fulham (Mohamed Al Fayed)
Liverpool (Fenway Sports Group)
Manchester United (Glazer family)
Manchester City (Sheikh Mansour)
Sunderland (Ellis Short)
QPR (Tony Fernandes)
*Arsenal's Stan Kroenke is a majority shareholder

[russell]

That's what they've been teaching kids for the past two decades, sport is more inclusive if the result doesn't mater.

I say bollox, my kids are growing up knowing there's no second prize.

So what if your kid goes to uni and gets a 1:1 but is second placed in the year, according to your teaching they may as well forget it. Best to aim to be in in the top 10 percentile.

[gingerjedi]

So everyone gets a first prize?

Pedant alert.

[Spacecadet]

That's what they've been teaching kids for the past two decades, sport is more inclusive if the result doesn't mater.

I say bollox, my kids are growing up knowing there's no second prize.

So everyone gets a first prize?

[gingerjedi]

If nobody's allowed to lose what's the point of sport?

That's what they've been teaching kids for the past two decades, sport is more inclusive if the result doesn't mater.

I say bollox, my kids are growing up knowing there's no second prize.

[Mich the Tester]

Would make the franchises worth quite a bit I imagine.

And football even less interesting.

[Arturo Bassick]

Most of the foreign owners are septics non?
They are mostly used to franchised teams and fixed leagues where the leagues have no hierarchy with each other.

I can imagine them in the background trying to sort deals to make The Champions League a franchise based tournament.

Would make the franchises worth quite a bit I imagine.

[Mich the Tester]

I suppose it would all be about the top 4 spots. So the bottom half becomes irrelevant.

So I guess if they're going to sustain something like that as a businesss they'll all have to make little deals to make sure nobody spends too many seasons at the bottom and goes bust.

[russell]

If nobody's allowed to lose what's the point of sport?

I suppose it would all be about the top 4 spots. So the bottom half becomes irrelevant.

[Mich the Tester]

BBC Sport - Foreign owners 'want end to Premier League relegation'

I suppose this rule would come in to play when they are all safely in the premiership. Think the Championship teams may think this is slightly less appealing.

If nobody's allowed to lose what's the point of sport?

[russell]

BBC Sport - Foreign owners 'want end to Premier League relegation'

I suppose this rule would come in to play when they are all safely in the premiership. Think the Championship teams may think this is slightly less appealing.