What do you think of the Premier League's proposal to host an extra overseas

[marcoporres]

match for the top teams? The football I remember and loved from the 1970s is dead and buried and the only thing of importance now is the money. The fans on lower wages can go to hell as far as these clubs are concerned.

[Platobeenz]

It once was a game.Then a professional sport.Then a business.Business must always look to expand.I'm looking elsewhere for entertainment.

[leeson]

i dnt think it shud go overseas because it wont be the english premier league because it will be all ober the world

[Greavsie]

English football is a joke and all about money grabbing fat cats getting more and more money while us poor fans waist our hard earned cash supporting them. I think it is time we as fans make a stand against this and start boycoting matches altogether. For this country to progress we need to play homegrown players in top teams within our own country. Don't get me wrong i love to see the likes of Tevez, Torres, Ronaldo etc but for the sake of our national pride we need to make a stand. Cap wages so smaller teams have a chance, re-introduce the rule where a max of 4 non-national players are in any one squad on match day and then we will see England return to the top of international football and us as fans will not be hit in the pocket so much!

[Peter Panz]

I suport the idea. I think that having games overseas would attract more fans (expecialy Americans)

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[chris_ninety1]

It's stupid. I'd have no problems with teams holding exhibition games abroad that ultimately had no bearing on anything, but these proposals are ridiculous.If nothing else it's ridiculously unfair, particularly to smaller teams (bearing in mind the idea is that the top few teams get seeded, thus giving them an early advantage already). But consider this hypothetical - let's say Wigan and Fulham end up, in the standard 38 games, tying on points for the critical 17th spot outside the relegation zone. But the draw to see who plays who in the extra matches sees Wigan draw Manchester United or Arsenal and Fulham pitted against the likes of Sunderland or Derby County. Wigan almost certainly lose, Fulham pick up at least one extra point solely for having an extra game against easier opposition. I'm all for this sort of format in the cups, but the league is supposed to be a fair representation of nine months worth of play. The proposed ideas means it won't be.And you can't say "alright then, let's take a couple of the regular 38 matches and play them abroad with each team losing one home game and one away game" either because you'll get fans missing out on particular fixtures - take another smaller Premier League team, say Reading, and have them lose a home game against Liverpool. A lot of Reading fans probably look forward to games like that, and they'd end up missing it so that a load of disinterested New Yorkers who only turned up because there was no Gridiron that day can watch it instead.Then you've got a number of other anomalies - everyone is already moaning about the high numbers of games players have to participate in. How do we solve this? Hey, how about ANOTHER game, but this time you have to fly all the way to Tokyo for it and get jetlagged. That should get all of our players nicely rested before the World Cup, right?And frankly, I think the football that you loved from the 70's has been dead for a long time. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot I like about it today - I think the Champions League is a tremendous spectacle and the World Cup never disappoints, but domestically the game isn't nearly as special as it once was. And now this new act of avarice dawns on us... pity.

[madgooner]

real supporters are outraged..it won't happen

[samsammy86]

From a football standpoint...NONSENSE!From a business standpoint...GENIUS!

[gowfer]

What happened to all whining and crying from the clubs and managers about their being "too many games" being played each season? Looks like that argument, as with so many others, gets pushed aside when there is a chance to rake in some more money....little wonder sports journalist Brian Granville has christened the EPL the "Greed is Good League"!