The Premier League is considering a proposal to introduce a play-off for the fourth Champions League place. The top four currently enter the tournament but the new idea would mean the teams from fourth to seventh playing in a mini-knockout competition.
Premier League ponders play-offs for Champions League
So if this Premier League proposal gets the go-ahead, football teams finishing as low as seventh would now get a chance to qualify for Europe's top competition. As an idea, it's about as intelligent as the plan for a 39th game back in 2008.
Instead, the Premier League should concentrate their minds on the state of Portsmouth FC, a football club who has had three supposedly wealthy owners this season, yet has unpaid taxes amounting to £11.5 million ($18 million), and is now on the brink of extinction,
Then there's Manchester United, laden with debts of over £700 million ($1.1 billion) following the Glazer family's highly leveraged buy-out. Or Liverpool FC, with its debt estimated at £237million.
The Premier League has bigger problems than supporting idiotic money making exercises...
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