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hardly the done thing to question a business that rakes in 6.5m for every televised game but i cant help but think theres a trick been missed by the fixture planning. fixtures out today have anice mish mash of games and yet have all the title contendors playing also rans at the end of the season .
surely theres a fantatic opportunity to follow american football here and have the best teams play each other at the end of the season to create that final 8 weeks/month/ week/ day climax
Like a cup competition
Wouldn't be very kind to the newly promoted teams who I guess under this system would have a first few weeks facing Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham etc. Could destroy their season before it gets going.
The apparent randomness of the schedule keeps the interest levels high all the way through with local derby's and games between teams of similar aspirations cropping up throughout the course of the season.
No. The "fixed" nature of American sports is off putting. The season will play itself out with all the twists and turns.
and yet have all the title contendors playing also rans at the end of the season
Yeah... what could possibly be exciting about playing the bottom clubs at the end of the season? That may be facing relegation and fighting for their survival? Like, say... City playing QPR for example? Last game of the season? That would be rubbish. Not at all nail-biting. Really dull and tedious.
Its just a different model of league.
Inherently the league system is dull and the end of the season is quite likely to be dull. Last season was an exception. Football can just about make it work due to all the different things that are being played for. Winner, top 4 for champions league, other european places, relagation.
However it is just about the only big sport that doesn't use the play-off system.
To win the league then lose the title in a playoff is just stupid, other sports have introduced playoffs to try and inject a bit off artificial excitement at the end of the season.
The league still has surprise results such as wigan vs man u and arsenal, sunderland vs city, norwich vs spurs.
So the fixtures pattern does not matter.
Well I'm not sure the Scottish Premier League is a great model, but they 'split' halfway through the season so the top 6 clubs are playing each other - essentially for the title and possible european spot and the bottom six are playing each other for the risk of relegation.
However it is just about the only big sport that doesn't use the play-off system.
It doesn't need one, it has FA/Champions/UEFA cups, too.
Maybe it could be sauced up a bit with a climactic penalty shoot out, or by a coin toss or by the teams having to guess how many sweets are in the jar, then the crowd hold their breath as the sweets are counted.