Premier League Games Played Overseas Back On The Agenda?

[Oystercatcher28]

If you take away real fans - then you lose a real competition.

Unless you can coach/fly 48,000 blues to the new "home venue" then the Premier League should scatter faster than a politician, caught by the reliable News Of the World former exclusives team, with his pants down in a duckhouse masturbating over Nazi pornography starring Sepp Blatter and a pile of cash.

 

[pikku]

Would be great for people living outside of the UK,i will be over joyed if they were to come to Asia for a couple of games..

 

[Dubai Blue]

This will really benefit clubs with a huge global fan base such as the rags, dippers and the arse.
Wouldn't surprise me if these three clubs are pushing this idea.

Although our fan base is growing we are light years behind these fcukers.

That's true enough, but consider this. Two of the worst teams in the NFL played a game at Wembley the other week in front of 85,000 people.

There is not much interest in the NFL in the UK, but the game sold out.

There is huge interest in the Premier League all over the world, and the appetite of those fans to watch a game in their own country must surely mean that attending a live game, be it Stoke v Hull, is an attractive proposition, like the NFL game in London. The games would sell out,

Nobody cared at Wembley the other week the teams they were watching were not very good. They went to watch gridiron from the USA.

Football fans in the USA, Thailand, Japan, India, wherever, will similarly want to go to watch and experience a Premier League game from England.

The Italian Cup Final this year is being played outside of Italy. La Liga is also considering games being played outside Spain.

It's not a 39th game being added, but a regular, mid season game, which would add to the attractiveness of the fixtures.

Given the avarice of the Premier League these days, I can see it happening, sadly.

They might not be very good at the moment but the Dolphins and the Raiders are two of the best-known American Football teams in the world, just like the rags and Liverpool are in terms of English football.

I can't speak for the other countries you mentioned, but you wouldn't get more than 10,000 bothering to turn up to watch Hull vs Stoke in Thailand. Liverpool vs Rags, on the other hand, could fill a 500,000+ stadium.

I agree it's a terrible idea though. The Premier League pulls in way more money than any other league in the world, yet it still wants more. If they're not careful, they'll end up killing the attraction that earned them all that money in the first place.

 

[ohfk]

The only way I could see it working is if it was a double header.

Instead of just one game being played, it would be two with both the home and away match being played a few days apart, in whatever country was chosen.

It may well actually work better if the whole of the premier league went on a "roadshow" for a week rather than one single match (or pair of matches)

FWIW, my opinion is the second you toy with the integrity (I know!) of the current league system, it will lose something that makes its attraction so popular. Then football has been losing its integrity for years, so I'm not sure it will make much difference to decision makers.