League's shoot-out plans savaged
Football managers and chairmen have laughed off proposals to decide drawn Football League games with a penalty shoot-out.
League chairman Lord Mawhinney wants to introduce shoot-outs to allocate a bonus point at the end of a drawn game.
Bristol City chairman Steve Lansdown has described the plans as "a crackpot idea" and his Cardiff counterpart Peter Risdale thinks it is a "nonsense idea".
That these ‘plans’ were savaged is not interesting. What’s interesting is that Lord Mawhinney is still somehow in the job when he has so clearly demonstrated that he has not the remotest understanding of the game that employs him.
He should have been sacked the moment – the very moment – this cretinous suggestion emerged from his ignorant mouthbox.
That doesn't surprise me. North American sports fans need a result. You're simple folk, in'tcha?
ReplyDeleteThe draw away against a better team and hard-won point is part of the culture of league football.
But that is only half of the cretinocity of this cretin's cretinishness, since even on its own terms this scheme would fail: it would encourage weaker teams to hang on for the draw, knowing they've got a good chance of ending up with two points, instead of risking getting none by over-attacking.
Admitted? I'm not ashamed of it.
ReplyDeleteThe point is that Mawhinney's law would increase the thing he wants to reduce, so it is self-defeating as well as ignorant.
But he's a commissioner. What else is he supposed to do if not come up with proposals? He wants to leave his mark on the game.
ReplyDeleteI say that all ties should be decided by rock-paper-scissors.
I think they should start by playing two rounds of rock-paper-scissors, and if it's a tie they should play a football match as a decider.
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