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Whilst nothing is impossible, playing against a stacked hand is not ideal. That's what a relegation play-off does. If you need to have a big money spinner at the end of the season to boost the funds, the current system works wonders. - The probability of a cupset is actually a really...

Actually, looking at the stats over a ten year period, only 21% of FA Cup matches between a Premier League side and a Championship side ended with the lower ranked team progressing. Interestingly, over ten years, only 2 sides have won the Bundesliga relegation play-off and been promoted = 20%...

Perhaps, but the financial distance between is greater 17th in the PL and 3rd in the EFL is a chasm. The revenue a Championship side (without access to parachute payments) receives is just over 1/8th of that a team finish in 17th in the Premier League would currently get. Ultimately, a...

The issue with a relegation play-off is that it protects the big side. Since 2012, there has been a single second-tier winner of the relegation play-off in Germany, and quite frankly that was a miracle of sorts (The defeated Stuttgart team literally had two World Cup winners in the starting line...