It won’t happen.

Platini, Blatter, Ferguson, Southgate, the President of the AFC, the Presidents of the Japanese and Korean football associations are, just to name a few, against it. It seems that the only people that want this to happen are Scudamore, Wenger and a couple people on this website.

Blatter has already said he’d veto any Premiership game outside of England. Not only that but he’ll put the World Cup bid at risk. Petitions are going round and no Englishman wants this to happen. Well, no true Englishman. Platini literally laughed when he heard about it. And it’s not like two people are stopping that idiot Scudamore from doing his thing because nobody wants it in Asia either. The Asians know that the teams couldn’t care less about them, they only want their money and I think the Asians are tired of being treated like that. The plan makes no sense, it takes symmetry out of the game and makes it unfair.

So let me get this straight, my city [let's say Dubai], bids for the right to hold a match. Dubai wins and it turns out to be Wigan vs. Derby? What is this? A lottery? It only makes sense if the cities bid for certain matches because lets say the 5 cities all bid and one city gets Man Utd vs. Spurs and Arsenal vs. Blackburn, another gets Liverpool vs Fulham and Chelsea vs. Everton and anothe gets Derby vs. Wigan and Sunderland vs. Bolton. They all paid the same though? What’s this? Dubai and Beijing pay the same amount but Dubai gets the good matches and Beijing get the small ones? So basically, the cities don’t know what matches they’re bidding for? That makes no sense. They’d have to know who they’re bidding for because rest assured United will pack a full house, Wigan vs. Derby will not, no matter how many people say they’d hop over the fence.

There are so many factors in play to stop this from happening that I don’t think anybody seriously expects it to happen.

Any type of seeding system for a league championship is by nature unfair.

Its a league for a reason…to play the equal number of games againts each and every team in the league.

What this adds is an element of luck in which teams get drawn against which team.

It is wrong. I am not saying I am against playing matches abroad and I am not saying I am for it either. but what has been discussed so far is not the ideal way i think.

They need to iron out that bit. I don’t think one game would be fair. It could relegate a team…it could cost the team a the championship or a european place…it could cost a team prize money(i guess this one could be negated by the fact that they stand to gain a lot of money by playing abroad)

The English Premier League exists for the English fans who go and watch the games… The EPL is their sport… Every country has their own leagues whether the teams are crap or not and they should be proud of their own league and teams.

Coming from Denmark, I followed my FC Copenhagen for years with an interest in MUFC due to Schmeichel (and then everyone else) — after living in the USA, I lost contact with FC Copenhagen and the US’s MLS is a joke (no team is tied to a city and they move based on profits = joke) so I am now VERY fond of MUFC.

I am, however, angry and insulted that the EPL thinks that I will waste my time and money to watch a “fake” premier league game — The EPL exists ONLY in Britain and will cease to exist if brought out of the country.

When I save up enough money, I will take a trip to Old Trafford with my family to watch a REAL EPL match… until then I am more than happy watching them play live on Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports TV.

So keep your games for yourselves or you will lose your spark that has caused this massive following world-wide.

The cow will be milked dry — as per Robbo’s column on BBC

(# denotes current team position before the extra round):
1 vs. 20
2 vs. 19
3 vs. 18
…
10 vs. 11

That way playing well for first half of season is important and makes every game more important… and we get to see goals… Let me know remind you of the horrid display Pool and Chelsea put on last night.

I think it is better than basing it on last seasons reasults…

Yes, fatigue from that million pound payoff in Saudi.

ah, yes. I read that one earlier. I’m a Man U fan so it’s making me shake my head in disbelief. I just hope we won’t repeat the same mistakes next time.