Overseas games work when you’re trying to grow your brand’s popularity.
That’s why it’s worked so well over here for the NFL.
However with the Premier League’s size and teams regularly going on pre-season tours and tournaments across the world, I’m not sure an actual Premier League game will be necessary.
Games back 👏
Top lad, our Bill.
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If Americans want to watch a game, We invented these things called planes, use them.
Well if the Bournemouth owner says so…
I have a very unpopular opinion.
The first game of the season should be overseas.
There would be rules to make sure that the choice of game was fair (alternate home/away across seasons, no local derbies etc.)
I see the number of fans that go to the preseason tours, and the number and enthusiasm of fans travelling to WHL and think we should share the love of the game.
One premier league a year abroad makes sense. The PL has to ensure that it does not count pointwise toward the league standings so that it would be an exhibition for most teams. This 39th game should be used as a tie-breaker for teams with the same points at the end of the season, and the PL could have them play each other abroad. This means if Arsenal and Man City have the same points at the end of the season, their 39th game will be against each other in Tokyo or New York.
Yeah, its called pre season friendly’s.
Those greedy yanks should focus on their own league and becoming MLS world champs.
Don’t see why he’d say that. Don’t they need fans? Lord know they don’t have any English ones.
I agree, stay home. The players are pawns in the money making schemes.
All Premier League matches should be played here and not overseas.
I don’t see why they couldn’t just setup a few preseason mini tournaments over there so they get to see some games and it doesn’t affect the main season.
The NFL play league matches around the world and that must really suck for fans in the US as they only have about 17 games each season so losing one to another country isn’t great.
I say this as a yank, please don’t. Just do pre-season friendlies here
“No” – Bournemouth’s owner
Reminder that it is the ENGLISH Premier League.
Completely stupid idea that needs to be soundly rejected just like the Super League. Speaking as an American, the rest of the world needs to resist the Americanization of sports. It’s getting so hard to watch anything here anymore with the constant reminder of how money runs everything.
This noise is growing more and more, we need owners like this to stand against it, I don’t have any faith that the owners of my club would do anything to try and stop it!
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Overseas games work when you’re trying to grow your brand’s popularity.
That’s why it’s worked so well over here for the NFL.
However with the Premier League’s size and teams regularly going on pre-season tours and tournaments across the world, I’m not sure an actual Premier League game will be necessary.
Games back 👏
Top lad, our Bill.
[deleted]
If Americans want to watch a game, We invented these things called planes, use them.
Well if the Bournemouth owner says so…
I have a very unpopular opinion.
The first game of the season should be overseas.
There would be rules to make sure that the choice of game was fair (alternate home/away across seasons, no local derbies etc.)
I see the number of fans that go to the preseason tours, and the number and enthusiasm of fans travelling to WHL and think we should share the love of the game.
One premier league a year abroad makes sense. The PL has to ensure that it does not count pointwise toward the league standings so that it would be an exhibition for most teams. This 39th game should be used as a tie-breaker for teams with the same points at the end of the season, and the PL could have them play each other abroad. This means if Arsenal and Man City have the same points at the end of the season, their 39th game will be against each other in Tokyo or New York.
Yeah, its called pre season friendly’s.
Those greedy yanks should focus on their own league and becoming MLS world champs.
Don’t see why he’d say that. Don’t they need fans? Lord know they don’t have any English ones.
I agree, stay home. The players are pawns in the money making schemes.
All Premier League matches should be played here and not overseas.
I don’t see why they couldn’t just setup a few preseason mini tournaments over there so they get to see some games and it doesn’t affect the main season.
The NFL play league matches around the world and that must really suck for fans in the US as they only have about 17 games each season so losing one to another country isn’t great.
I say this as a yank, please don’t. Just do pre-season friendlies here
“No” – Bournemouth’s owner
Reminder that it is the ENGLISH Premier League.
Completely stupid idea that needs to be soundly rejected just like the Super League. Speaking as an American, the rest of the world needs to resist the Americanization of sports. It’s getting so hard to watch anything here anymore with the constant reminder of how money runs everything.
This noise is growing more and more, we need owners like this to stand against it, I don’t have any faith that the owners of my club would do anything to try and stop it!