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Restructuring English Football 11:18 - Apr 21 with 3962 views

Was reading this piece on BBC where Fleetwood chairman has spoken about regionalising Leagues.
I think it's a great idea and a genuinely sensible one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52363030

You could have 4 drop down from the Championship each season with 2 up from both regional lower league.
You'd have a few funny splits and potentially have to move teams between leagues every once in a while (hello Burton, Walsall etc).

They divide pretty well at the moment to be honest and you could have

League 1 South
Cambridge, Cheltenham, Colchetser, Crawley, Exeter, Forest Green, Leyton Orient, Northampton, Plymouth, Stevenage, Swindon, AFC Wimbledon, Bristol Rovers, Coventry, Gillingham, Ipswich, MK Dons, Oxford Utd, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Southend, Wycombe, Walsall

League 1 North
Bradford, Carslile, Crewe, Grimsby, Macclesfield, Mansfield, Morcambe, Newport, Oldham, Port Vale, Salford, Scunthorpe, Sunderland, Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Bolton, Burton, Doncaster, Fleetwood, Lincoln, Rochdale, Rotherham, Shrewsbury, Tranmere

Both leagues could have 2 going down with 4 coming up from National League (or keep it that 1 drops from each league and 2 come up from National League as it is now)

What do people think?

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Restructuring English Football on 10:01 - Apr 23 with 656 views

francisbowles

Restructuring English Football on 17:38 - Apr 22 by TGRRRSSS

Well you've no chance of that FarncisBowles.

Sky/BT ain't gonna sacrifice all those "Big Sooper duper Liverpool V Chelsea/Tottenham etc

So they can instead feature Brentford v Arsenal and Liverpool V Hull and Man United v Barnsley.

AS for the PLymouths and Newcastle's and so on... well it's mostly a lot of journeying whatever you do, sometimes a further journey might be easier.
I imagine the Ipswich/Newcastle/Exeter thing is interesting by Road it might be quicker going to Toon and back rather than down the M4/M25 to Devon.

Yes but they would be guaranteed 38 games with LEEDS.

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