BensGrandad
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Perhaps Cardiff Newport and if they get relegated Swansea will pull out and become big guns in the Welsh League
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Football League To Be Renamed
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Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
What a bunch of morons...
I like marketing. But it is usually done really badly.
Thus, why have a championship an a league 1 and 2 in the EFL, and a Premiership in the, er, nothing? Only the English . . . .
When the Championship came in, my suggestion was give all the other leagues a special name too. Having the third tier called 'Division 1' is bonkers. Having the 5th tier, which is pretty much fully professional, being classed as 'non league' and called 'the Valderama Premiership' or whatever it is this week, is completeley incoherent.
Thus I suggest this for the 5 professional leagues, with increasingly overblown titles in inverse proportion to merit:
Premiership
Championship
Dominationship
Supremacyship
Revelationship (Christians only)
Thus, why have a championship an a league 1 and 2 in the EFL, and a Premiership in the, er, nothing? Only the English . . . .
When the Championship came in, my suggestion was give all the other leagues a special name too. Having the third tier called 'Division 1' is bonkers. Having the 5th tier, which is pretty much fully professional, being classed as 'non league' and called 'the Valderama Premiership' or whatever it is this week, is completeley incoherent.
Thus I suggest this for the 5 professional leagues, with increasingly overblown titles in inverse proportion to merit:
Premiership
Championship
Dominationship
Supremacyship
Revelationship (Christians only)
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
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On BBC 5live they suggested they changed it because the previous 'The Football League' TFL clashed with Transport for London logo/hashtag 
#storminateacup
#storminateacup
pasty
A different kind of pasty
On BBC 5live they suggested they changed it because the previous 'The Football League' TFL clashed with Transport for London logo/hashtag
#storminateacup
Seriously? The first time I have EVER seen "The Football League" referred to as TFL was in your post!
Chinman3000
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 1,269
I actually don't know where to start with this wankpottery. As pointed out don't think Cardiff or Newport will be too pleased. Then there's the God awful logo (was it REALLY a school competition? If so WHY? Did the Marketing Consultant cs blow the entire budget on the long liquid lunch that clearly spawned such a horrendously cringeworthy idea?). Not to mention the utter pointlessness of it all and the fact that it will probably all change the second they add a sponsor to it anyway. Does "EFL Championship" effortlessly spill off the tongues of commentators and results announcers? Does it bollocks.
What an enormous waste of everyone's time, effort and money. I hate modern football.
I was waiting for a bite. The school competition thing was bullsh*t. Long day - sorry.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
- 10,568
Perhaps that's the point, they couldn't use TFL because another major organisation was using it. Or the bods on 5live were making it up
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
So apart from the addition of the word 'English'. it pretty much remains identical to what it is now.
Worried Man Blues
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Well, the Football League (TFL) has been around at least a hundred years before Transport for London, so it looks as if Transport for London should move over!On BBC 5live they suggested they changed it because the previous 'The Football League' TFL clashed with Transport for London logo/hashtag
M-eh. Whats in a name
I care! I would call it
The "We got mugged by the Premier League but still run by the same old farts League"
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,267
The logo's fine and makes perfect sense: 72 dots = 72 teams, 3 stripes = 3 divisions, blue and white = England. That's fine, but the name is disappointing because there are Welsh clubs in it.
Perhaps they should have called it the Anglo-Welsh Football United League or, simply, A.W.F.U.L?
brightn'ove
cringe
Don't mind the logo change - needed an update, the current one is very mid-2000s
The name change though ... what's the point.
The name change though ... what's the point.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
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Agreed although to be honest I'm not that bothered. Lots of multimedia marketing #b******s
SweatyMexican
Well-known member
- Mar 31, 2013
- 4,155
I'm just going to keep calling it the 'football league' no matter what they change it to.
"We believe the EFL name and brand will give our competitions an identity that is new and distinct, while at the same time retaining our unique heritage. As such, it will be something that all fans can identify with - whether they be young or old, at home or abroad.”
No, it isn't.
No, it doesn't.
No, it isn't.
No, I don't.
No, it isn't.
No, it doesn't.
No, it isn't.
No, I don't.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
- 10,568
It's that sort of talk that starts revolutions ..