SUIYHP
The King's Gull
My money would be on Preston. Would be fitting as they were the first ever league winners.
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50th Premier League team?
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Gazwag
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Chris Hughton 6th longest serving Premier League manager
We are one of 11 clubs never to have been relegated from the Premier League
Chris Hughton 6th longest serving Premier League manager
We are one of 11 clubs never to have been relegated from the Premier League
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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Quite.
There was over 100 years of professional football before the much lauded PL came along but most of it is largely ignored. Some keep saying that the game is totally different now and mock the football that went before. They see grainy, speeded up black and white film, goalies in jerseys and heavy boots and regard it as a thuggish, unfit and less skillful game. How wrong they are.
No one can truly appreciate a sport until you have studied its history and its development. Managers and coaches are raved about now but no one bothers to study the great thinkers of the past. Names like Guttmann, Sebes, Chapman, Michels, Cullis and Greenwood mean nothing to most. I keep being told that players of the past couldn't play at this pace now but I watched years of football played at breakneck speed. I watched skill levels that some players could only dream about now. A powerful, well timed header is a rare thing of beauty now but it used to be an art form.
The game hasn't changed just everything that goes with it. Imagine what some of the older players would do now with lightweight kit, pitches like bowling greens, lighter footballs, vastly improved sports science and the support structure around them. Oh the heart yearns for Zico and Garrincha. For Pele and Maradonna. For Rivera and Riva. For Di Stefano and Puskas. For Eusebio and Beckenbauer. For Greaves and Charlton. For Matthews and Finney.......and George Best....the great George Best.
Hang on....shouldn't be talking about these old fogies. The PL is the only thing that matters.
Thunder Bolt
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Icy Gull
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Taking out the Scottish teams I think we can say that we were probably the biggest club never to have played in what is now known as the Premier League? Bristol City might argue but can't see that any of the others could. We are fecking late to this party, thanks Stanley, Archer and Bellotti!
Flying Farrier
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- May 24, 2017
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The way the ffp rules are shamefully stacked against the smaller clubs it might be a while before we see 50th team tbh......if i had hazard a guess however i'd say Bristol.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Preston. FA cup winners and League Champions.
Icy Gull
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True, I overlooked that from the black and white days, they are also Mark Lawrenson's first and favourite team too, so maybe they are arguably bigger than us.
Gritt23
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Preston.
But I completely agree with the sentiment that all the resetting of stats since Division 1 merely changed it's name, is an absolute nonsense. the rules didn't change, the players and teams all stayed the same, and despite the marketing it was NOT a whole new ball game. It was the same game, being run and funded differently.
But I completely agree with the sentiment that all the resetting of stats since Division 1 merely changed it's name, is an absolute nonsense. the rules didn't change, the players and teams all stayed the same, and despite the marketing it was NOT a whole new ball game. It was the same game, being run and funded differently.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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Exactly.
But try telling that to some people and their eyes glaze over. Perhaps all the teams should be renamed to include ( 1992 ) in their name.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The formation of the Premier League marked a breakaway from the Football League, and the division was eventually re-sized 4 years on from 22 to 20 teams (when it was originally supposed to be 18). But as promotion / relegation remained exactly the same, of course to all intents and purposes it has just been a rebranding exercise. Sky do love to draw their 1992 line in the sand though don't they.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,200
But the breakaway league that was formed in 1992 and branded as the Premier League did
The Championship never broke away from the Football League.
There has also been rumour and speculation over the years about the formation of a Premier League 2 (which would replace the current Championship)
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
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My guess would be Bristol City, closely followed by Preston but wouldn't be going to a bookies anytime soon to place this bet
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It was still 'just' a change of name. The records are not expunged.
severnside gull
Well-known member
I kinda wonder whether number 50 will happen in my lifetime
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,200
SInce when does a mass resignation from an organisation become just a name change?