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12 hours ago, NorthernLights said:

I like seeing a bit of variety in terms of teams getting promoted to the Premier League so the idea of one of Fulham, Cardiff or Swansea going up alongside WBA is very beige.

The circle of clubs able to get promotion is narrowing.  Coming down this season, Bournemouth will have twice as much in parachute money alone as the average Championship side brings in in total income.

 

On top of which, whereas most Championship sides can rack up a £39m loss over 3 seasons, Bournemouth this season are assessed against a £93m loss over three.  At the end of next season against a loss of £75m over three.  Given the amount of profits they will have made over the most recent TV deal, they can spend something like five times as much as other Championship clubs to try to come straight back up.

 

Four of the top six this season in the League were getting parachute money.  The other two are Leeds, who were the biggest side in the division by a distance and who should have gone up last year, and Brentford, who have a plan that they can implement because of a rich owner.  The team in 7th is almost certain to have smashed FFP (they were sitting on a £39m loss for the last three seasons, thanks to a "revaluation" that wiped out a lot of losses, and this year they're bound to have lost more than £1). 

 

On top of which the Premier League is now nearly 100% billionaire-owned.  They basically need to swap Forest for Palace and they're almost there.  At some point someone is going to suggest only 2 going down...then 1...then election.

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They very nearly scored much earlier in the half but Cardiff need to do much more here, they're not putting Fulham under any pressure or getting up the park to win dangerous set pieces at all. Fulham look quite content to take the tie back to CC at 0-0 but could end up nicking a goal as well.

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11 hours ago, bluearmyfaction said:

At some point someone is going to suggest only 2 going down...then 1...then election.

This would be the day I'd give up football. I don't see it happening, tbh. If you have no relegation then half the league have nothing to play for from about January onwards. It wouldn't be good for the Premier League "brand" to see the title decided by Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd and Man City taking it in turns to hammer the kids' teams of the bottom half clubs.

I could possible envisage some half and half compromise like a 16 or 18 team Premier League and a similar-sized "Premier League 2" below it. Would be largely pointless as you would still have a huge gap, albeit it would be better the second and third tiers rather than the first and second.

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Cardiff deserved to lose that second goal as punishment for their pathetic display over the 90 minutes. When sitting back and trying to hit on the counter attack is your Plan A, B and C in a home play-off tie then you don't deserve to progress and would add nothing to the tier above.

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