25-02-2015, 14:25
(25-02-2015, 12:09)Salopbaggie Wrote: While the process of awarding the World Cup to Qatar might be open to question, if we accept the situation, then there are some interesting consequences of it.
Imagine some of the top 6 teams losing a lot of their stars for 4 - 6 weeks, it certainly would be a bit of a leveller in the Premiership and should prove for a more interesting season in terms of league positions as the lower clubs with fewer international players would remain pretty much intact while the big clubs could see their first teams decimated. OK the reserves of some of the bigger clubs should still be able to field a team as good as most clubs first teams but they will not be as used to playing first team football together.
Another interesting thing is that I have a feeling that the next AFCON is meant to be straight after Christmas, with Nov-Dec having been World Cup - are teams going to let players go? I can see a lot of the top teams deciding that their players are injured for the World Cup anyway - club trumps country now, so by 2022 it will presumably be worse.