Wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of chairmen go for this, especially those of clubs who could desperately do with staying in the top flight year on year. Even those with English chairmen like Wigan, Wolves, Newcastle and Bolton. Smallish clubs who could be in danger of going down, knowing that it doesn't really matter there'll still be in the top flight the following season.
Hopefully the FA will stop this entirely though as it'd make the sport F***ing pointless. And lower league clubs wouldn't have anything to strive for, the fairy tale stories of sides who have come through the Leagues after the brink of leaving League football would no longer exist. Clubs like Fulham, Wimbledon, Swansea and Blackpool would no longer have that side to the game.
And the play-offs, as well as the relegation dog fights, are always exciting. I'm not a huge fan of the play-offs as I think who comes third in the Championship should be promoted as they're the third best side over the season and finish 20 odd points ahead of sixth who eventually come up but I suppose that's the way they work and that's what makes them exciting, if not totally fair.
I would happily lose the play-offs and just have top three sides come up for the bottom three or alternatively the top four from what is now League 2 replace the bottom four in League 1 and further into the Conference top two replace the bottom two in League 2. I think that's much fairer but you can't get rid of promotion and relegation.
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