Choose your own Premier League line-up

[Matt_Lcfc]

1 minute ago, BenTheFox said:

Knew someone would do one without us in it

Tempted to deactivate my account after this. Ffs.

[SemperEadem]

1. Leicester

2. Cov

3. Wednesday

4. Sheffield United

5. Sunderland

6. Newcastle

7. Villa

8. Birmingham City

9. Leeds

10. Chelsea

11. Spurs

12. Forest

13. Everton

14. Blackburn

15. Man United

16. Liverpool

17. Wigan

18. QPR

19. Preston

20. Arsenal 

[Kingleicester]

 

1. Manchester Utd

2. Liverpool

3. Arsenal

4. Chelsea

5. Man City

6. Everton

7. Villa

8. Spurs

9. Us

10. Leeds

11. Wolves

12. Newcastle

13. Sunderland

14. Notts Forest

15. West Ham

16. Sheff Wed

17. Southampton

18. Blackburn

19. Coventry 

20. Birmingham 

[Koke]

The myth of Sheffield Wednesday never dies.. 

[SemperEadem]

13 minutes ago, Koke said:

The myth of Sheffield Wednesday never dies.. 

Cracking away end, good city for a drink and would bring a lively end to our place. 

[Stadt]

19 minutes ago, Koke said:

The myth of Sheffield Wednesday never dies.. 

Lots of picks for even more London clubs and north western hovels like Blackburn. Sheffield Wednesday are a lot more appealing as a team than any of those

[Stadt]

Most of England's population lives in the south east but the problem is their clubs are so dull outside of the London lot. Even then having all of West Ham, Brentford, Palace & Fulham (again) is overkill. Not to mention Watford, Brighton & Southampton .

 

A good premier league regional distribution is probably something like

 

London & SE:  6

Midlands: 4.5

Yorkshire: 2

North West: 4.5

North East: 1.5

South West/East Anglia/Wales: 1.5

Edited 5 January 2022 by Stadt

[boots60]

Leicester City

Coalville Town

Barwell

Quorn

Loughborough Dynamo

Shepshed Dynamo

St Andrews

Oadby Town 

Hinckley fc

Nirvana

Anstey Nomads

Highfield Rangers

Friar Lane & Epworth

Kirby Muxloe sports

Harborough Town

Lutterworth Town

Ratby Sports

Blaby & Whetstone

Melton Town

Ashby Ivanhoe

 

[fazzyfox]

On 04/01/2022 at 15:47, Stadt said:

Man City

Man Utd

Liverpool

Everton

Newcastle

Sunderland

Leeds

Sheff W

Sheff U

Forest 

Us

Villa

West Brom/Wolves

Arsenal

Spurs

Chelsea

West Ham

Southampton

Portsmouth

Bristol City

 

Maybe swap a Sheffield side out for Norwich for a better geographical spread

Pretty much this, perhaps one of the Welsh clubs in for one of the Sheffields and Brighton run Southampton close. It's a dilemma, do you want the wide geographical spread or as many derbies as possible? This one has a good mix of both, Speaking of Derbies, not seeing much love for our old woolly friends  or Chaventry. And maybe Chelsea could F.O. to their Super League and free up a place for another club, wouldn't miss their stench for one moment.

[Stadt]

2 minutes ago, fazzyfox said:

Pretty much this, perhaps one of the Welsh clubs in for one of the Sheffields and Brighton run Southampton close. It's a dilemma, do you want the wide geographical spread or as many derbies as possible? This one has a good mix of both, Speaking of Derbies, not seeing much love for our old woolly friends  or Chaventry. And maybe Chelsea could F.O. to their Super League and free up a place for another club, wouldn't miss their stench for one moment.

What makes a good PL is much as who isn't in it tbh. A good rotation of teams coming up is important too, Norwich, West Brom and Watford yoyoing is very dull.

[Paninistickers]

8 hours ago, Koke said:

The myth of Sheffield Wednesday never dies.. 

I know. The universal love they get as a staple.of English football is irritating. 

 

Just had quick count up on wiki: since 1970 they've had 7 seasons in the third tier, 27 in the second and 15 in the top. 

 

I'm dull.enough to have just looked at our record during the same time frame. 1 x third tier. 20 x second tier (it seemed a lifetime to me!) 28 x top tier.

[Oxfordfox83]

Title is Premier League, but I want a time machine:
 

1. Leicester now

2. Man City in Kinkladze era

3. Southampton in Le Tissier/Berkovic era

4. Newcastle in Ferdinand/Ginola era

5. Man Utd in Cantona era

6. Leeds 1992

7. Liverpool with Mcmanaman/Fowler

8. Cov with Darren Huckerby

9. Middlesbrough with Ravanelli and Juninho

10. Chelsea with Robben and Duff

11. Blackburn 93

12. Arsenal in Vieira/Bergkamp era

13. Bolton with Okocha

14. Sunderland with Phillips and Quinn

15. Everton with Cahill and Arteta

16. Norwich with Jeremy Goss and Ruel Fox
17. Wolves 2019

18. The Tottenham team who came third out of two

19. Forest the year Frank Clark took them down

20. The record-breaking 11 point Derby team

[HybridFox]

11 hours ago, boots60 said:

Leicester City

Coalville Town

Barwell

Quorn

Loughborough Dynamo

Shepshed Dynamo

St Andrews

Oadby Town 

Hinckley fc

Nirvana

Anstey Nomads

Highfield Rangers

Friar Lane & Epworth

Kirby Muxloe sports

Harborough Town

Lutterworth Town

Ratby Sports

Blaby & Whetstone

Melton Town

Ashby Ivanhoe

 

El Dynamo

[Koke]

12 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I know. The universal love they get as a staple.of English football is irritating. 

 

Just had quick count up on wiki: since 1970 they've had 7 seasons in the third tier, 27 in the second and 15 in the top. 

 

I'm dull.enough to have just looked at our record during the same time frame. 1 x third tier. 20 x second tier (it seemed a lifetime to me!) 28 x top tier.

 

They have 1 trophy in 85 years. Plus, as you said, loads of time spent in the third tier. This is their third stint in League One in this century. That's mad for a supposed "big club". Such an overrated club. 

[Golden Fox]

Would be a nice breath of fresh air to get rid of the big city bias of London & the Manchester/Liverpool area, and also Birmingham while we're at it...

 

Leicester, Notts Forest, Derby
Norwich, Ipswich, Peterborough, Cambridge
Cardiff, Swansea, Newport
Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Hartlepool*
Sheff Utd, Sheff Wed, Leeds
Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton

 

*this would have been the other big NE club instead, but just don't want their owners anywhere near the Premier League...

 

Derbies galore and a much more competitive balance, and much less poison from entitled fanbases!

 

I envisage another attempt at the Super League which results in the Premier League having no option but to relegate all those involved to the Championship. This would create a few years of chaos as they all scramble to get back - think 2014-15 Scottish Championship with Hearts, Hibs and Rangers all down in the second tier at the same time. We'd get back to the current status quo in a few years, but it would break the current monopoly of same clubs winning everything and give other clubs a chance back in the limelight.

[Voll Blau]

Arsenal
Aston Villa
Birmingham City
Blackpool
Brighton & Hove Albion
Bristol City
Chelsea
Everton
Leeds United
Leicester City
Liverpool
Manchester United
Millwall
Newcastle United
Notts County
Preston North End
Queens Park Rangers
Sheffield United
Sheffield Wednesday
Tottenham Hotspur

 

Based on a mixture of interesting and fun places to go from a Leicester point of view, a bit on tradition, stadia, a little bit on geographical mix and Preston are thrown in because they're my in-laws' team. I like seeing Forest and Derby rot in the divisions below us but Nottingham's good for a drink up so Notts County get the nod for a bit of extra Midlands representation.

 

Nobody asked, but here's what I'd want the Championship to be in the scenario too, based on a mixture of bigger clubs, variety of kit colours and interesting derbies.

 

Blackburn Rovers
Bradford City
Brentford
Burnley
Cardiff City
Derby County
Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town
Luton Town
Manchester City
Norwich City
Nottingham Forest
Oxford United
Plymouth Argyle
Port Vale
Portsmouth
Southampton
Stoke City
Sunderland
Swindon Town
West Bromwich Albion
West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wrexham

[Bayfox]

Away day heaven for me for various reasons.

 

Only added the 3 sides closest because although I love seeing them all rot, if we are talking about a dav out and the emotion and passion it can invoke then I'd take having to play them.

[Fox92]

On 05/01/2022 at 13:24, Stadt said:

Most of England's population lives in the south east but the problem is their clubs are so dull outside of the London lot. Even then having all of West Ham, Brentford, Palace & Fulham (again) is overkill. Not to mention Watford, Brighton & Southampton .

 

A good premier league regional distribution is probably something like

 

London & SE:  6

Midlands: 4.5

Yorkshire: 2

North West: 4.5

North East: 1.5

South West/East Anglia/Wales: 1.5

Far to many South clubs at the minute (London plus Watford and Brighton and Southampton).

 

Lets go back 20 years and reclaim the Yorkshire away days...  Wednesday, Leeds, Bradford, Barnsley, Middlesbrough...

[Stadt]

33 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Far to many South clubs at the minute (London plus Watford and Brighton and Southampton).

 

Lets go back 20 years and reclaim the Yorkshire away days...  Wednesday, Leeds, Bradford, Barnsley, Middlesbrough...

Barnsley is a shit away day, Huddersfield is miles better. Middlesbrough are a bleak club they can **** off as well.

 

One of Bradford, Barnsley & Hull can all come up (and go back down) in a 5 year rotation

[BenTheFox]

Just now, Stadt said:

Barnsley is a shit away day, Huddersfield is miles better. Middlesbrough are a bleak club they can **** off as well.

 

One of Bradford, Barnsley & Hull can all come up (and go back down) in a 5 year rotation

Definitely don't agree with that. 

[Stadt]

15 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Definitely don't agree with that. 

Drinking in a leisure centre or some shirhole miles away 

[Fox92]

22 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Barnsley is a shit away day, Huddersfield is miles better. Middlesbrough are a bleak club they can **** off as well.

 

One of Bradford, Barnsley & Hull can all come up (and go back down) in a 5 year rotation

I like Barnsley. Leisure Centre is only up the hill. I like Middlesbrough too (though Middlesbrough probably wouldn't make my top 20).

 

Agree Huddersfield is good.

 

I'd pick Hull to be in the division too.

 

Sadly never been Bradford as we always seem to miss them.

 

Lets be honest I'd just go all Northern.

Edited 7 January 2022 by Fox92

[BenTheFox]

Just now, Stadt said:

Drinking in a leisure centre or some shirhole miles away 

The ground itself is great though and the walk from the train station to the ground is banging. Doncaster is definitely the worst of the South Yorkshire aways. It has absolutely no redeeming features. 

 

I agree with you on Huddersfield. I actually think it's an underrated away day. 

[Captain...]

On 05/01/2022 at 23:54, Oxfordfox83 said:

Title is Premier League, but I want a time machine:
 

1. Leicester now

2. Man City in Kinkladze era

3. Southampton in Le Tissier/Berkovic era

4. Newcastle in Ferdinand/Ginola era

5. Man Utd in Cantona era

6. Leeds 1992

7. Liverpool with Mcmanaman/Fowler

8. Cov with Darren Huckerby

9. Middlesbrough with Ravanelli and Juninho

10. Chelsea with Robben and Duff

11. Blackburn 93

12. Arsenal in Vieira/Bergkamp era

13. Bolton with Okocha

14. Sunderland with Phillips and Quinn

15. Everton with Cahill and Arteta

16. Norwich with Jeremy Goss and Ruel Fox
17. Wolves 2019

18. The Tottenham team who came third out of two

19. Forest the year Frank Clark took them down

20. The record-breaking 11 point Derby team

Can only argue with 2019 Wolves, if it's Wolves it's got to be Steve Bull era, but I would switch them out for Zoltan Gera West Brom, we need Vardy to play at the Hawthorns as often as possible or Crazy Gang Wimbledon.

[Fox92]

On 06/01/2022 at 10:34, Voll Blau said:

Nobody asked, but here's what I'd want the Championship to be in the scenario too, based on a mixture of bigger clubs, variety of kit colours and interesting derbies.

 

Blackburn Rovers
Bradford City
Brentford
Burnley
Cardiff City
Derby County
Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town
Luton Town
Manchester City
Norwich City
Nottingham Forest
Oxford United
Plymouth Argyle
Port Vale
Portsmouth
Southampton
Stoke City
Sunderland
Swindon Town
West Bromwich Albion
West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wrexham

Gotta have Chester in there to if Wrexham are in.

 

I just love getting all the derbies in