European Super league

[legs77]

Have to agree. I'm always a little saddened to see the disrespect shown by the PL teams for our once great cup competitions, especially the FA Cup. FA Cup Final day was one of the biggest events in football's calendar and still should be as it really is a great 'open' competition that always brings surprises. The League Cup perhaps not the same type of appeal but still one of the big 3 contests in (our) footie.

I think the calandar is so stacked for big clubs players that they are forced into making changes.

Also the big clubs still 90% of the time win the cups !

FA Cup winner could offer CL place for winners as a carrot ?

Clubs fighting relegation from PL will not go for it the money is too big to stay in the league.

[upthemaggies]

FA Cup winner could offer CL place for winners as a carrot ?

Platini backed that idea and I 100% agreed with it. Had the ECWC got the chop a couple of seasons earlier, it would have surely been suggested that the cup winners should go into the ECL the season they first allowed more than 1 club per nation (1997 I think) which would have saved the FA Cup's reputation.

The only way I see the FA Cup being taken seriously again is if they take the QFs and SFs abroad with the massive cash incentives that would presumably go with such a move, but we'll probably see that happen in the ECL before the FA Cup decide to do it, by which time the novelty of playing in New York, Tokyo etc, will have worn off.