I specifically said I don't want Nuneaton or Alfreton. I want Man Utd B, like Real Madrid B!
Four winners of Conferences would be far more exciting than the current stultifying arrangement that reproduces itself ad infinitum to my mind. Reducing the Premiership and Championship would bring eight decent sides into the Conferences and improve competition, then you've got whatever new sides the Premier League might produce with its infinite wealth and access to young players who clearly need something academisation never provides.
If you don't bring in the foreign players with all their glamour, you won't have managers like Guardiola, Conte and Mourinho that everyone wants to hear from, it won't be big news, so Sky won't fund it and it'll be back to Bert Millichip and Bob Lord (Bet Spirematt never heard of them).
Your example of cricket is perfect. Kolpak failed Derbyshire BUT the whole game is trying to reinvent itself. I hate all this wham-bam they play, but at least they are alive and full of ideas.
Our football has a dire structure from the 1960s enlivened by foreign imports and television (and criminal) money. If we leave it like this we will never have a top England team again. We need to change and be ever ready for more change. Look at the bit I added about where the England squad started out - football needs teams like ours, we need to make something of that not sit there waiting for Division 2 to swallow us again.
Four winners of Conferences would be far more exciting than the current stultifying arrangement that reproduces itself ad infinitum to my mind. Reducing the Premiership and Championship would bring eight decent sides into the Conferences and improve competition, then you've got whatever new sides the Premier League might produce with its infinite wealth and access to young players who clearly need something academisation never provides.
If you don't bring in the foreign players with all their glamour, you won't have managers like Guardiola, Conte and Mourinho that everyone wants to hear from, it won't be big news, so Sky won't fund it and it'll be back to Bert Millichip and Bob Lord (Bet Spirematt never heard of them).
Your example of cricket is perfect. Kolpak failed Derbyshire BUT the whole game is trying to reinvent itself. I hate all this wham-bam they play, but at least they are alive and full of ideas.
Our football has a dire structure from the 1960s enlivened by foreign imports and television (and criminal) money. If we leave it like this we will never have a top England team again. We need to change and be ever ready for more change. Look at the bit I added about where the England squad started out - football needs teams like ours, we need to make something of that not sit there waiting for Division 2 to swallow us again.