[4evaabaggie]

SCO, that was the point I was making, you have a premier league of six and even that is currently split into two divisions, man city, Liverpool are prem league one, the next four prem two. Probably eight also ran middlemen, too good to get relegated not rich enough to bang their heads on that glass season and six who are destined to get relegated, maybe not this year, maybe not next year but soon, we fell into that group, it's the same every season.
Owners only have ambition to get to 40 points and keep filling their snouts in the trough.

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And to think about it ...... where is the variation in cup winners ..... it looks likely that Man City are about to become the first team in history to win the treble ..... the real treble. The league, the League cup and the FA cup, it hasn't been done, but the bias of European football associations has created a situation where there are only a few clubs who can win any silverware.
Where are your Coventry's, your Wimbledon's, your Ipswich's and your Southampton's, the smaller clubs competing and succeeding, yes you will get a Leicester(Prem), a Wigan( FACup) or a Blues (League cup) occasionally but is that all we can look forward to ...... the answer ...... Yes. A closed shop stitched up by he FA, UEFA and sky.

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70 - 75 ..... five winners in five years
76 - present thirteen winners including Southampton, Wigan, Coventry, Wimbledon, Portsmouth all once and Everton twice ........

No wonder I stopped watching it ......