As hibbejim says, it's Dundee that seem to be pushing for this, or at least floating the idea.
I think it's doomed from the start, FIFA/UEFA wouldn't stand for it as it would globalise football in a way they wouldn't be able to control. You'd end up with EPL games being held in Asia etc., with the only benefactors being the clubs or associations involved.
I don't think it's a Pandora's Box that they particularly want to open.
People will argue that the NFL do it, hosting regular games in the UK, but that sport is dominated by - run by - and participated in by only one country. There's no external market that the NFL can impinge upon. The rest of the world is an open book for them.
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While we're on the NFL, as an aside, I find it remarkable that there are no amateur teams, no rural leagues, no pub leagues at all in that sport. You join your High School team, if you're lucky you get to be one of the 3-4% of players that then make their College teams, then you get to be one of the 7% who get drafted to an NFL team. If at any point you don't make the grade, there's no fall-back, there's no lower league to play in, there's no other route into the senior game That's it, you're done. You never play that sport again.
As I said, I find that remarkable.
I think it's doomed from the start, FIFA/UEFA wouldn't stand for it as it would globalise football in a way they wouldn't be able to control. You'd end up with EPL games being held in Asia etc., with the only benefactors being the clubs or associations involved.
I don't think it's a Pandora's Box that they particularly want to open.
People will argue that the NFL do it, hosting regular games in the UK, but that sport is dominated by - run by - and participated in by only one country. There's no external market that the NFL can impinge upon. The rest of the world is an open book for them.
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While we're on the NFL, as an aside, I find it remarkable that there are no amateur teams, no rural leagues, no pub leagues at all in that sport. You join your High School team, if you're lucky you get to be one of the 3-4% of players that then make their College teams, then you get to be one of the 7% who get drafted to an NFL team. If at any point you don't make the grade, there's no fall-back, there's no lower league to play in, there's no other route into the senior game That's it, you're done. You never play that sport again.
As I said, I find that remarkable.