Ideal Premier League

[Richard E]

It's almost as if it's better to make teams earn the right by being promoted and winning games.

Apart from us. We should have an automatic place by dint of it being our idea.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If you were going to have an ideal geographic split then it would be better if Plymouth and/or one of the Bristol clubs were actually any good.

How about Plymouth, Carlisle, Dover Athletic, and Berwick Rangers ?

[IFWaters]

Southampton are one of those clubs that gave up their claim when they moved to an identikit shed. Granted Derby did that too but they are a proper football town. I quite like Selhurst Park but I will bow to the mob and throw them out in favour of Norwich, another proper football town.

[PeterWithesShin]

Southampton are one of those clubs that gave up their claim when they moved to an identikit shed.

Unlike Leicester? 

[IFWaters]

It's almost as if it's better to make teams earn the right by being promoted and winning games.

Apart from us. We should have an automatic place by dint of it being our idea.

promotion and relegation ? what about a franchise system where you can move the teams to the highest bidder?

[PeterWithesShin]

It's almost as if it's better to make teams earn the right by being promoted and winning games.

Unless you're Arsenal.

[Richard E]

We’re all overlooking the very strong claims of Glossop North End, Darwen and Bradford Park Avenue.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've always thought that if Plymouth could ever get their shit together they could be a decent club.

[Richard E]

The top 20 teams from this table?

https://www.worldfootball.net/alltime_table/eng-premier-league/

[PeterWithesShin]

If Old Corinthians ever give it another go we'll all be playing for second place.

[Richard E]

I've always thought that if Plymouth could ever get their shit together they could be a decent club.

I agree. They’ve surely got a decent catchment area for support.

[Sexual Ealing]

The top 20 teams from this table?

https://www.worldfootball.net/alltime_table/eng-premier-league/

I wouldn't be having Darwen all the way down there. Massive club.

[Sexual Ealing]

I've always thought that if Plymouth could ever get their shit together they could be a decent club.

I agree. They’ve surely got a decent catchment area for support.

Big cats are notoriously fickle glory hunters.

[Richard E]

The top 20 teams from this table?

https://www.worldfootball.net/alltime_table/eng-premier-league/

I wouldn't be having Darwen all the way down there. Massive club.

The benefit of relying on that table is that Small Heath aren’t in the top 20.

[IFWaters]

to put it another way, I preferred the premier league in the 1990s when :

a) we were in it
b) the results werent so predictable