Ridiculous. The other teams in the lower leagues have just as much history as most of the clubs in the premier league. To suggest that the top team reserves play in them is just down right disrespectful. How is it disrespectful? You have a 72 club system going on and suddenly young players who are probably not going to make the cut in the top teams are going to come in and start playing against you? Reducing the amount of clubs in a certain tier? So all the top 20 clubs in the premier league? That makes what, 20 extra "clubs" that have to join the lower leagues?

Rafa should know this isn't Spain, he needs to learn respect.

Plus, the reserves league is regional. The FA should take steps to change that, make it more like normal leagues to give the boys more games each season instead of the crappy amount of games they get now. But playing the reserve teams in the championship and other leagues is a bad idea. No way you can go about doing that, not without disrespecting all the other teams in the lower leagues.

Like I said, ridiculous. Rafa probably came up with this idea to sway attention from his first team's performance. Get the journalist and the media onto some other topic of conversation.

This post has been edited by refnulf: Mar 30 2007, 10:07 PM