Thursday, May 17, 2007

Solutions To West Ham Tevez Row

Seriously is anyone sick of this whole Tevez row? I know I am. This whole thing is going to take the entire summer to play out, and FIFA sticking it's grubby self-righteous hands into it isn't going to make things anymore pleasant.

Already Sheffield United, Charlton, Fulham and Wigan are planning a suit against the inaptitude of the Premier League to dock West Ham points. Chairman of Wigan, Dave Whelan, has publically called for Dave Richards, the Premier League chairman, and Richard Scudamore, chief executive, to step down.

Meanwhile in a desparate attempt to avoid relegation, Sheffield United chairman Kevin McCabe has ridiculously suggested the league be expanded to 21 teams to salvage some sense of fairplay to all sides involved.

Hence in the spirit of all the silliness going on, here are some tongue-in-cheek solutions.

Solution #1
The Premier League deducts 2 points off West Ham for fielding an ineligible player. West Ham stays up, Sheffield United go down and the Premier League absolves itself of a troublesome suit.

This one actually makes alot of sense all round. And we all know that since it makes sense, it wouldn't happen.

Solution #2
Both Sheffield United and West Ham get sent down, while playoff finalists, West Brom and Derby get promoted in their place. There will be no heartbreakers in the playoffs and 2 terrible teams, who deserve to get relegated, get relegated.

Solution #3
This one's my personal favourite.

Wigan, Sheffield United and West Ham get thrown out of the Premiership. Three of the most troublesome teams in the league get relegated and along with them, troublemaker Dave Whelan.

It helps clear the deadweight of having 3 absolutely worthless teams ply their worthless trade in the Premiership.

It reduces the league to 18 teams, which means the annual rants of Ferguson, Benitez, Mourinho, Wenger and ______ (insert managers of teams playing in Europe) of playing too many games no longer hold any water.

The Premier League kills 3 birds with one fell swoop. With the exception of the fans of Sheffield United, West Ham and the 5 people who support Wigan, everyone else is happy.

Solution #4
Feel free to add your own tongue-in-cheek solutions.

3 comments:

Gentleman said...

I thought I heard that the FA approved of Tevez's transfer issue?

spectre said...

The approval of the FA doesn't make the deal any less dodgy. As of right now, there is no conclusive proof that the third party agreements have been cancelled. And it's not helping matters that the Premier League is keeping mum over the issue. Which is why the entire witch-hunt is gaining momentum.

In any case, would be interesting to see how this one plays out, especially with so much outside interest.

Anonymous said...

Option 3 sure does look good :) Can't think of a better one

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