Like you, I think some of our fellow Blues are being a tad harsh on the Tarquin supporting herbert. Like any stopped clock, even Tarquin supporting herberts can be correct twice in a day and, as you say and indeed speculate upon with your 'solution', the fellow may be on to something that would enhance the 'match day experience' for not only his fellow Gooners but the wider football supporting populace too.
I do think though that you could have gone further with your list of proposals, radical as they are! Let me take your thinking on a stage or two, run this little lot up the flagpole and see who salutes it?
I mean, what if:
1. Instead of this messy 'leapfrogging' of teams at the top and bottom of the table based on results, it was agreed that only the teams with most money and 'history' could be potential winners of the championship. All that 'based on results' stuff is just 'meritocracy-schmeritocracy' anyway.. and frankly, it's communism by another name, I think we could all agree upon that..!
2. Those teams, which would usually play in red, would only ever be allowed to win titles in rotation, with the annual 'player draft' each Summer kicking in to enable one of the other teams in red which haven't won it for a while to choose the bestest players available for its squad (again based on the fact that the teams in red have all the moolah and 'history' anyway..), thereby enabling a different team in red to win it for a change.. (there you go, 'competitiveness' sorted for all those moaning Minnies who bang on and on about 'merit'!)
3. In fact, why not think beyond our own parochial little league and invite our European cousins to join in with us? You know, the 'good' ones, with lots of moolah and 'history' too? And maybe we could think up something snappy to call it, like the 'European Super League'? Just a thought..
4. With no relegation to worry about and regular sharing of the titles (among the red shirts, of course) there'd be none of that awful stress for supporters regarding where their particular team might end up each season.
5. In fact, why not eliminate the clients (sorry, 'supporters') altogether and use CGI technology to fill the grounds televisually, thus enabling clients to remain stress-free in the comfort of their own homes, having paid, say, a minimum annual fee of £2-3000 per year for their 'televisual match day experiences' (which could be enhanced by such innovations as targeted advertising breaks, girls in short skirts and waving pom-poms as they high kick in formation.. ). And at home they'd all marvel at the display put on by the avatars sitting in the places where they used to sit, as those avatars create an atmosphere with their orchestrated chanting from their red walls in the stands..
6. In fact, why don't we just change the name altogether to the American Football League and have done with it? Everyone would be a winner*!
(*so long as you played in red, didn't have an owner with brown skin and had clients.. sorry, supporters.. who were credulous as Hell..)
There you go 'mrbelfry'.. it would be a doozie!!
