Today the Premier League rejected the proposals of the Champions League play-off system. The whole thing smacked of profiteering and hopefully the rejection of this and the general outrage at the 39th game proposal will see the end of people with commercial interests interfering with the natural footballing season. Every team playing each other twice, home and away, over the period of a year, is a pretty solid way of determining the best teams in a league. The idea of creating a money-spinning lottery for the champions league spot pretty much negates the point of league positions - should a team who finish seventh in a domestic league be competing in an international competition designed for champions?
Furthermore it seems wholly motivated by this season's exciting battle for fourth. Yes, this season you could throw a blanket over the teams positioned between fourth and seventh, but this isn't always so. So, it is a good decision by the Premier League and hopefully similar schemes will also be dropped.
City have played a huge part in instigating this increased competition in the upper levels of the Premier League and it is good that this has been recognised as enough excitement in its own right.
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