lol @ the EPL

That's cute, brought a tear to my eye. But your emotions don't exactly justify the existence of a competition.

There's just as much potential for an underdog/fairytale run in the FA Cup, they just won't be clubs as low down the leagues as Bradford. Hell if that's the biggest concern you have just open it up the lower leagues and forget all the politics.

You actually haven't even argued my point that having one cup competition is better than two, you've just gone all premenstrual on me.

Also is your shift key broken or something dude?

 

I always thought this to be true but the more I've thought about it I honestly don't know that it is. There's so many variables during the season that I think luck plays such a huge part over a 38 game period. If each game was being played in a controlled environment where all variables were always the same then you'd be right but we just assume that it all evens itself up at the end of the day when realistically it probably doesn't.

I mean for example if Chelsea were in the ECL still and their focus was on that competition because they were out of the running for the EPL title and they rested players at an away game to Man City thus giving up a cheap loss. Where as they'd pushed Man Utd earlier in the season to a draw because they had no other distractions and Man Utd ended up losing the title by 1 point is Man City really the better side?

I mean that's a pretty simplistic hypothetical but obviously I'm not going to write a whole 38 round example. Do we just put our faith in the notion that everything will even itself up?

I think the way the NBA structure their finals system is the fairest I've seen. Playing a 'series' rather than a one off game is the best way to do it. Although there's obviously no perfect way to do it...