Todd Boehly wants the EPL to have a North v South all star game

[der_hammer10]

I would rather trust this Todd to look after my cake, than that Todd to look after the running of football in Britain.

 

[Paisleybear30]

The last thing we should be doing is Americanising our sport here.

Next he will want a “World Series” with only teams from England.

Should it be Americanizing?

 

[yosser hughes]

yippee, hot dogs(not raw),french fries and full fat pepsi all round

 

[Sebo1872]

He was also claiming Salah and KDB were from the Chelsea academy.

He has the potential to be comedy gold.

 

[Joga Bonito]

The NBA All star game is a glorified training game where nobody really tries, it would be the exact same thing in the EPL.

 

[GovanFront4]

Tuchel is better off away from there. He was being pestered by Boehly so often he started sending his agent to meetings.

 

[Gios_Gillet]

Wish the yanks would stick to f*cking up their own sports and leave ours alone.

 

[Saturnblue]

The only Americanisation I want to see are cheerleaders in the scud, anything else can get tae fck

 

[bkkbear]

This is Americanised nonsense. The EPL is becoming more and more like an Amazon Prime panto series as it is. There will be mixed supports and live lions in the TV studios before we know it. Give me Scottish football every day of the week.

If the lions are fed some of the "analysts" then bring it on!

 

[Neilston Unionist]

Only American sport I watch is NBA, but the players there don’t take the all star game seriously at all. On paper it sounds great, having the best players in the league go head to head, in reality it’s them jogging round a court desperately trying to avoid injury before going back to their teams. It mainly serves as an honorific for players, ie when they retire people will describe them as ‘7x all star’ or whatever.

When you consider players are already (rightly) complaining about the fixture schedule, I can’t see them jumping on board with this. I personally think it would be worth the seethe though to see some managers reaction when their star player comes back with a torn hamstring

I watch the NBA regularly as well and don’t bother with the All Star game. Don’t even think the Americans do.

 

[Southsideblueblood]

If it was foxy boxing with the woman's epl I'd be in.

 

[Fran Sand Dancer]

Great idea Todd, hope Scotland follows up on this man's vision for our game he clearly understands better than us Brits.

Can you imagine how daft we'd all go for a post-season Glasgow XI vs an Edinburgh Select? Borna Barisic and Callum McGregor teaming up to take on Ryan Porteous and Andy Halliday.

Naw?

 

[A Magician Named Gob]

I'd be amazed if there was one genuine football fan who thought this was a good idea

Non legacy fans in Asia and the rest of the world might be all for it because they're plastics.

 

[Skyy Bluenose]

In his defense, at least he was honest about it being all about making money.
Currently football is slowly picking your pocket and selling it as competition.

 

[rossgers]

Just discussing it just now on SSN

I think there should be a money spinning wild card game for mid table mediocrity between Wolverhampton and Bournemouth.

 

[LKS]

If anything it really takes away a big selling point of the PL which is the traditional rivalries, ManU v City, Arsenal V Spurs etc

Plus we already have internationals which allows us to watch players we don’t play with each other in club football play together. NBA/NFL etc don’t have internationals as far as I’m aware so it only really works there.

The way American sports is run is majorly different to the rest of world and it’s probably for the best they don’t try bring their ideas over here.No risk/reward with relegations.Ads every 2 seconds, breaks every 10-15minutes. It’s a casual scene.It’s Probably more tense going out for dinner with your mrs

 

[Arkanoid]

Thought Klopp was brilliant
So Liverpool, Everton and Manchester all in one side? Wow interesting
So North West against North East, no North v South
Oh so we get Newcastle as well
And then South is all London, so Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea!
He looks awkward then just laughs

He did say find a date and we can talk about it.
His parting shot was to say. Did he really ask this?

 

[muttley]

The Northside Jets v The Southside Eagles. Yeee-haw !

Yanks can be funny people at times.

 

[TheSteele]

Foam Fingers and Cheerleaders next...................wait Crystal Palace have cheerleaders

 

[justice]

Gonna start proclaiming the EPL winners as ‘world champions’ as well aye?

 

[nasalsinatra]

Contrived events don’t work. I remember a game at Wembleyin 1973 to celebrate the UK, Ireland and Denmark joining the European Common Market. A select from these countries played a select from the existing members -West Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Lots of publicity. Nobody was interested.

 

[NJA]

Nope from me. Someone smashes your player in a tackle, gets them injured. Who pays his wages? I the club owner will not be for playing in a exhibition match.

Plus, I won’t take a lecture from an American who don’t have promotion and relegation in their leagues. We don’t want any Cleavland Browns or Washington Football Team.

 

[norm1890]

What about having it in Australia?

 

[Diego Maradona]

Hi Todd. Fuck off Todd

 

[dcbear]

The weird thing is that most of the US sports allstar games are dying a death and struggling to be relevant. Except the NFL one which isnt even trying to be relevant.

 

[W 2]

 

[bluetonic]

No one named Todd should be taken seriously.

Or Americans when they talk about soccer

 

[Blootoonboy]

He can forget it, the British football fans dont want Americanisms creeping into the game.

 

[allygaitken]

What about "Chad"?

Chad hogan?