Would no promotion and relegation be a bad thing?

Today foreign owners of Premiership teams were found to be discussing whether to vote for the scrapping of relegation and promotion, possibly in favour of a franchise system similar to what they have over in the States. Now the immediate reaction to this from football fans is one of horror and how disastrous it would be for our proud Football League. However, i see it another way.

Eventually the Premiership is going to break off, as much as you may not want it to or think it won't. There's been mumblings for years now, ever since BSkyB were trying to promote the idea of a super league involving all of Europe's elite sides. Further down the line there seemed to be a big media push in Scotland for Celtic and Rangers to get a place in the Premiership, which sparked a fierce backlash from the majority of people associated with English football. More recently there was the suggestion from Bolton chairman Phil Gartside that there should only be one relegation and one promotion per season. Then only a few years ago there was a push for the Premiership to host a 39th game abroad. Anyone would think the Premiership wanted to be put on an even larger money making scale.

So it would appear that it is inevitable that the Premiership will break off from the rest of the Football League eventually, but i feel that would improve the general footing that our football stands on. The Premiership is being held afloat by money from Sky, without that the Premiership would completely collapse. If they were to disband leaving the other 72 English clubs in their current format, why wouldn't most parties profit from this? The Premiership could host their 39th game or whatever, the majority are foreign owners now so it would surely please the powers above at all clubs. Then from the Championship downwards, we would have a league system not completely built on money and a far more exciting one. We all know how exciting the Championship is as a division if you follow football, at the start of a season literally any one from around 14 teams could win the title. The Premiership is too money driven, with it being very rare any team that gets promoted stays up for more than a few seasons. Stoke are a very rare case of a team going up in recent history and cementing a place is the Premiership, others struggle every season such as Wolves and Wigan, whilst most come straight back down.

Now compare this to the Championship, where it is very rare that the 3 teams that come up go straight back down. Currently 2 of the promoted teams this season are stood at the top of the league and 5th respectively, while the final promoted team is stood at a solid 11th position. This is what fans love to see, an unpredictable division where all teams have a chance at some sort of glory, not seeing the Man Utd's and the Chelsea's in the top 4 every year without fail.

So if run properly, a league system without the Premiership i believe could be fantastic. With the new Fifa financial fair play ruling coming in it is already a step in the right direction in terms of securing football teams financially. Get the debt ridden Premiership out of the way and we'll see a fair football league where anyone can finish anywhere, I'd love to see a league that isn't about spending massive lump sums on players, but one that involves modest sums and more importantly the promotion of youth players into first team squads. The FA keep going on about the lack of English talent coming through, well here's a way to get more youth players playing first team football too. I know i said no more about England, but it just seemed a nice way to wrap this up.