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- meierm01, on 05/25/2009, -2/+36It's baffling to this US football (sorry, 'soccer') fan that hardly anyone in the States understands the awesome significance of relegation and promotion. I doubt many NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL fans can totally immerse themselves in a battle between the bottom two of the league, or the top of the 'minors'. Many times, the battle at the bottom is as intriguing (or more!) as the battle for the #1 spot.
Go Sheffield! - pissshivers, on 05/25/2009, -11/+37It's the most popular sport in the world, and it's called football. (hint: because you play with your feet)
- weetbx, on 05/25/2009, -1/+22Lets not forget to laugh at Newcastle for getting relegated
- enevitable, on 05/25/2009, -5/+19I wish soccer and rugby were bigger in America. When you compare them to football, football players look like pansies. More often then not football players are spending most of their time standing, whilst its not uncommon for soccer/rugby players to run back and forth on the field at full speed without being subbed for long periods of time.
Plus there is a ***** load more skill involved in soccer/rugby. - inactive, on 05/25/2009, -2/+15You mean football match?
- m0rg0th, on 05/25/2009, -4/+16it is great that a 2nd division club match can attract so much money
- navidb, on 05/25/2009, -7/+19Uhhh, champions league is all that matters this week.
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -3/+15When was the last time someone lost a war with America?
- superkeer, on 05/25/2009, -2/+13Except for fans of English football, Burnley and Sheffield United fans, and everyone who understands what it's like not to be a fan of a major European powerhouse. Oh, and sensible football fans who understand that an important game is an important game, whether it's amateurs playing or a World Cup final.
- drichar, on 05/25/2009, -3/+12I would love to see Burnley win this and get promoted.
- drichar, on 05/25/2009, -0/+9But that money doesn't go to the winning team. It goes to the network broadcasting the game.
- brownsound00, on 05/25/2009, -0/+8Huge win against the Revolution this weekend. The MLS is looking good! I was reading up on the league, and they are expanding to include some more Canadian teams. I think the MLS is here to stay now.
Moreover, I was watching the Score (sports show in Canada) and a new stat said that there are more youth playing soccer than hockey, and it's not even close. Soccer is going to be the most played sport in Canada soon enough (rising costs of hockey equipment and arena maintenance compared to cheap soccer requirements), and then maybe our National team can step it up... - jerrycan, on 05/25/2009, -3/+10Toronto FC!
- MrDeetz, on 05/25/2009, -0/+6Surely American Football should either be called American Rules Football (as in Aussie Rules Football) OR American Rugby as the game is derived from Rugby rather than Football. Of course, Rugby was itself derived from Football, but let's not pick bones.
In Victorian times the English came up with the nickname "soccer" for Association Football to differentiate it from "rugger" which was the nickname for Rugby Football. The word rugger has now pretty much disappeared. The actual players were never known as "soccer players". They were always known as footballers, the same as their rugby playing brethren. - drichar, on 05/25/2009, -0/+6Millwall v Scunthorpe at Wembley was probably the most exciting match today, in the League One (3rd division) play-off final! I love watching smaller clubs with their die-hard fan bases.
Congrats to Scunthorpe winning 3-2 and moving up to the English Championship (2nd division)! - drichar, on 05/25/2009, -0/+6You'd be surprised.
- brownsound00, on 05/25/2009, -0/+5I think football can attract fans at any level. Once the players are that good... it's just amazing to watch. Of course watching EPL or La Liga etc. is amazing, but many second division teams can still put on a show. Even the MLS here in NA is getting entertaining!
- CanuckPenguin, on 05/25/2009, -0/+5I would love for the NHL to implement a similar system. Too often games at the end of the season are meaningless. The threat of relegation adds a lot of excitement to the games.
The only issue is that you would have to change how players are traded. Usually the teams being relegated sell the rights to some players and the teams coming up from the lower tier buy some players to help try and keep them in their new league. It's difficult for this to happen when you have to trade player(s) to other teams in order to get new ones from them. Chances are if there happens to be a player on the promoted team that could get interest in the new league then the promoted team would want to keep them. - brownsound00, on 05/25/2009, -0/+5probably the worst managed team in football
- PettyKrooks, on 05/25/2009, -1/+6ever watched rugby? your chap would last about 2 minutes.
- PettyKrooks, on 05/25/2009, -0/+4Luckily 99% of the world isn't American
- CACuzcatlan, on 05/25/2009, -0/+4RTFA
- loconet, on 05/25/2009, -1/+5C'monnnn youu reddddddddddsssssssssss
- burketo, on 05/25/2009, -0/+4"an easy one for the United."
You must be joking. - pitbull777, on 05/25/2009, -2/+6join the rest of the world and call it "football"!!!...you can indeed play it with your "foot"!
- indubitably, on 05/25/2009, -1/+5see newcastle, you got something to look forward to (maybe)! they deserve the drop.
- beck5, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3well financially yes, yes it is.............
- IamNOTmrT, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3Strange article. While they got most of the facts right, they went from knowing the result (1-0 to Burnley .... YES!!!!) in the first paragraph, to 'lets see who wins' in the final paragraph.
- CACuzcatlan, on 05/25/2009, -0/+3Worst team in the EPL, but us Americans have to out do you guys in every aspect. FC Dallas of MLS is the worst managed team in all of football (soccer).
- ViscidGobs, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3What many North Americans don't understand is that the majority of football clubs are where they are in the standings because of merit. Whereas North American sports NBA/NHL/MLB/NFL/MLS is based on indentured service of the draft. Players are not developed they are acquired by their monopolistic fetters. This causes two problems. All the teams are alike because of revenue sharing and no one gets the upper hand in competition. Two, players end up playing for the money rather than the sport.
- loconet, on 05/25/2009, -1/+4You don't watch much footy do you.
- Irco, on 05/25/2009, -1/+3oh..im sure they think they wont it already.
Ferguson is not slightly worried about Messi, xavi, iniesta, henry and eto'o...so easy. - FreddieD, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2North American sports are completely backwards from the promotion/relegation system, not just because we dont have one, but because leagues like the Premiership play a perfectly symmetrical schedule (they play everybody twice, once home and once away), and they have no playoff system.
From the european's perspective, I can see why they would scoff at a playoff system... they'd think it would be ***** for a team to dominate over the course of a full season, just to lose a best of 3 or a home-and-home game in a single elimination tournament. I'm pretty sure the only reason we do it here in the states is revenue. The Superbowl alone makes the NFL rich even if the rest of the season sucked, and you see how much they are trying to hype Kobe-vs-LeBron and those two haven't even won their semi-finals yet. - drichar, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2There are many football/soccer fans in America. It's possible to follow sports in other countries.
- Mofassa, on 05/25/2009, -1/+3@burketo
EPL = English Premier League - GavinZac, on 06/08/2009, -0/+2Three, fans can decide not to bother supporting the team when it isn't doing well, because the draft process ensures they have a chance of winning it at least some day. 90% of football (soccer) teams will never win anything, yet have thousands of fans who -appreciate- smaller victories like beating a rival, staving off relegation, or having a player called up for international duty. It is the chance of heartbreak which makes football fans so passionate, there is no equivilant to "Man, the Dolphins SUCK this year. I'm not going."
The closest thing, of course, is highschool American football - you can't really choose your local highschool, just like a (proper) soccer fan doesn't choose his team - they choose you. THEN the little victories can matter. - enevitable, on 05/25/2009, -1/+3@PettyKrooks, are you talking about rugby tackles? If so that in my opinion is the greatest dispairty between US football and rugby. In rugby they teach them how to tackle correctly, by wrapping arms around the sides. This prevents all the spine/neck injuries that happen in football, because they are just gigantic guys wearing pads who run into eachother at full force with no regard to the other players well being.
If you like skilled games, soccer and rugby are prime. But for man on man unskilled hitting, US football is the sport to watch. - wtfkeyhole2pro, on 05/25/2009, -1/+3When i read the headline i thought it was about CL Final, :) Barça - Més que un club.
- zaferk, on 05/25/2009, -0/+2Minimum for hockey: a stick each player
for soccer: 1 ball - d3dm, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1So give me a good reason why someone in America should care?
- jamcubed, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1@burketo
because you've never called the scottish league the SPL? Just because your in england and don't ever think about that part... - LinuxCobra, on 05/25/2009, -1/+2AMADO GUEVARA!!!!!!
- burketo, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1nice...
- inactive, on 05/25/2009, -1/+2nascar? we were talking about sports son
- duniyadnd, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1@ktek - they use "farming" systems in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. Except they're call seed teams, and they usually make deals with teams not in their domestic league. The teams giving away the player still get money for it, but they try to set up a deal with a top (financially better) club as a first exclusive option type of deal. Think Ronaldo moving from Manchester United from Sporting. Or Ajax Amsterdam set up teams around the world (Ajax Cape Town, Ajax Orlando - no longer around) etc.
It sometimes works, brings players out there, and makes the scouts jobs a lot easier.
The problem in the US is that the billionaire owners will refuse to let this system take place. Imagine the horrible Dolan family allowing the Knicks get relegated. They would have been in League F if that system was in place. - futebollounge, on 05/25/2009, -1/+2wow. nascar redneck right over here.
- avaris15, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1You wish you hadn't said that now? haha.
- Samg85, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1It would have been great if relegation and promotion had been in US sports when the leagues where still starting out. It's impossible for the NFL and NBA because they really don't have good lower tier leagues,(well, not that I know of). But it would be great if the MLB did this. It would make the long season a little more meaningful.
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