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How long before the EPL gets its way and we have a 39th game in the US?

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Where there's muck there's money...

No 39th game...

Let the previous EPL season champions kick off the season opener in New York or any other large US East coast city.

Rickler wrote:

Where there's muck there's money...

No 39th game...

Let the previous EPL season champions  kick off the season opener in New York or any other large US East coast city.

A new home for the Charity Shield perhaps?

That is a great suggestion!

A perfect match to act as an ambassador for English (above but including EPL) football.  The game should be played on a rotating basis around the world where there is a 'market' developing - that includes the match still being played in the British isles on occasion.

But this would mean the FA beating the EPL in marketing and playing the first 'meaningful' game abroad - are they up to it?

Hmmm, for me the only benefit of marketing the Premier League to the world, is that the already uber-rich Premier League elite get even richer.

The Premier League is already a huge attraction worldwide. All the games and tours stateside are purely to carve those clubs a little niche should Soccer ever explode across the pond.

I wonder how many would turn up for Crystal Palace vs Burnley...

Czarcasm wrote:

Hmmm, for me the only benefit of marketing the Premier League to the world, is that the already uber-rich Premier League elite get even richer.

The Premier League is already a huge attraction worldwide. All the games and tours stateside are purely to carve those clubs a little niche should Soccer ever explode across the pond.

Manchester City have a franchise in the MLS - ''New York FC''. They will bed in their youth over there, apparently.

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spowell92 wrote:

I wonder how many would turn up for Crystal Palace vs Burnley...

upon Rickler's suggestion I would gamble on the fact these two teams won't be involved. Always nice to knock teams who we were playing recently and now are now in the Premier League.

Burnley and Crystal Palace.......what absolute horrors of football clubs.

Dick Trickle wrote:

spowell92 wrote:

I wonder how many would turn up for Crystal Palace vs Burnley...

upon Rickler's suggestion I would gamble on the fact these two teams won't be involved. Always nice to knock teams who we were playing recently and now are now in the Premier League.

Burnley and Crystal Palace.......what absolute horrors of football clubs.

I've nothing against either of those sides and am not knocking them, but I question whether the turn out of 109,000 was for the pleasure of the game of soccer or for the gratification of taking an instagram pic of #Bale and Rooney. Taking a league game and playing it abroad just wouldn't work in my opinion. Although I like the suggestion of taking the Community Shield abroad (not just the states), however isn't that one of the fixtures the FA use to try and recuperate the costs of Wembley?

spowell92 wrote:

I wonder how many would turn up for Crystal Palace vs Burnley...

Lol.. Probably more than would turn up at Wembley!

Rickler wrote:

spowell92 wrote:

I wonder how many would turn up for Crystal Palace vs Burnley...

Lol.. Probably more than would turn up at Wembley!

I suspect Burnley and Palace fans would fill Wembley.

soccer is popular atm due to 3 of the 4 major sports being in the off season. once they start up again soccer will side again till this time again

The viewing figures in the US for certain USA games in the World Cup finals were larger than for the deciding games in the World Series and the NBA finals.
That leaves just the "Superbowl" among the big three sports.

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There are an estimated twenty million youths in the states playing 'soccer'.


I'm betting the USA wins the World Cup for the first time before England ever wins it again!

I wouldn't bet against you on that Rickler, the FA are looking to cement their incestuous and vice like grip on the game together with FIFA! It's about the gravy train not about the soccer, the yanks on the other hand know what is needed to win major competitions and you can see them working dillengently towards that aim whilst we get mooted ideas of a closed prem. and bullshit third leagues, I blame unfettered capitalism dressed up sport as usual.

Iggy wrote:

I blame unfettered capitalism dressed up sport as usual.

Keep banging that old drum Iggers.

In that vein, I was listening to Talk Bollocks yesterday and some ice cream whose name escapes me specliated that the new tv deal, due in 2016, could triple the cash available for the Prem clubs.

Me, I don't see it, I would rather slit my scrotal sack open and coat my balls with sequins than pay to watch Premiership footy, Shirley everybody else knows how to piggy back upon the system?

Where the chuff is all this new money coming from?

We will end up down the route of 'franchises' in the Prem - mark my words!!

After that it won't be long until one of these chairmen picks up a club like Fulham or Crystal Palace,  and takes it to America to get 70, 000 - 80, 000 crowds.

Another will go to Australia, then another to China.

The FA have just totally lost control of the Premier League.  It's a foreign driven money oriented machine that is geared towards global markets and capturing audiences - over the communities they represent, English football or youth development - which used to actually be what football was all about.

The FA never saw it coming and now can't stop it. If Joe Hart gets injured this season, you could probably count the starts other English players will get in a 60 game season on two hands. And that's our 'English' champions, with a manager from Chile, and a family of owners from the Middle East.

God, there are some miserable gits on here... a 39th game in the US - wouldn't bother me, I suggest the only people it would bother are the seasons ticket holders for those clubs.

ejh wrote:

And that's our 'English' champions, with a manager from Chile, and a family of owners from the Middle East.

The ugly face of xenophobia is alive and well.

Lord Tisdale wrote:

ejh wrote:

And that's our 'English' champions, with a manager from Chile, and a family of owners from the Middle East.

The ugly face of xenophobia is alive and well.

   You are funny Tis