English Football (soccer)

[jcichon]

Ok, I am an emerging football fan, been watching BPL the past few years and I have some football questions.
So I see that the few worst teams in the BPL get sent down to another league but what league do they get sent to? And I gather the best teams in the lower leagues move up to bigger leagues? So if a team gets moved up to the BPL do they have a spending cap on player salaries? How does a small team from a lower league compete with the Man U's and Chelsea and Arsenals?
As for players, is there a player draft each year or how does a team get young players? I've been watching the "Being Liverpool" series on Foxsoccer channel and I see they have a youth academy so do the players in their youth academy move up to the big team or do they develop players in their academy and when they reach a certain age, can leave and sign with anyone? I know these questions are odd but I am an American so I dont understand English football but am really enjoying it more and more!! Ok, one last question. In the BPL, how long is the season and how many games in a season? Thanks for your help guys!!

 

[Richie]

Hi Jason,
Premier league teams that are relegated, 3 of them at the end of the season move down into the Championship league. The top 2 teams from the Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier league, the other promotion place is fought out between the next 4 teams. This is the same format for all the other leagues essentially.
There is no spending cap that I am aware of on players wagers they get paid their worth and that is debatable. The pay what they can afford to attract the players they want. Smaller teams just have to manage what they have and get the best out of the squad to complete throughout the season. As for cup competitions it's on the day and there have been many David & Goliath matches, were Goliath has been slain.
The transfer window is the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other countries into their playing staff. Such a transfer is completed by registering the player into the new club through FIFA. "Transfer window" is the unofficial term commonly used by the media for the concept of "registration period" as described in the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Player. According to the rules, each national football association decides on the time (such as the dates) of the 'window' but it may not exceed 12 weeks. The second registration period occurs during the season and may not exceed four weeks.
Players can also go out on loan, were the receiving club generally picks up the wage bill.
As for young player's, a lot of teams have youth academies. Probably the most successful was Manchester United when they brought the likes of Beckham,Giggs, Scholes, etc through and won everything in site. Probably the most famous blunder in qutoes was from now pundit Alan Hansen ex Liverpool player when he said Manchester United would win nothing with kids. How wrong he was. Clubs also have talent scouts and will not only view other professional clubs, but non league, amateur and schools to pick up young talent and sign them on the books first before others have a chance to get in.
The player's in the youth academy depends upon them making the grade and the talent they possess and that is tough, some break into first team football at 16 if they are good enough. Yes others might be released from contracts or move to others clubs. A lot just don't make it in top flight football.

The leagues run from August to the following May. The number of league games is 38, the number of total games depends on domestic cup competitions and European football matches. Some players will also do International duty.

Hope it's all as clear as mud and I've answered all your queries.
cheers
Richie

 

[jcichon]

Thanks!!! That answered a lot for me!

 

[Filipe]

You don´t have to use the term "soccer". Football is this...

...and the one that people call "football" in the US, should really call...

 

[Tarracus]

Just the Choosen One can touch the ball with the hands..

 

[DEL]

So that's why Scottish Goalies can't make saves.
Derek

 

[Tecumsea]

The English Premier League is probably the most competitive in the world and full of International players, top players are earning from £250,000 "per week" downwards. Even the lower clubs in the league have wage bills from £25,000 to £75,000 per week per player. Debatable whether they are worth that but football seems to survive, attendance at games is becoming expensive for the average working man and some clubs even in the Premier League are heavily in debt. The wages have escalated with the huge amount the clubs earn from TV rights. Promotion to the premier league will gave a club an immediate injection of £50 Million from TV rights.

 

[Andrew Craft]

Hang on, down here this is football.

 

[Funky50]

Hang on, down here this is football.

I thought that was Footie????????

 

[Colin_Fraser]

******* indeed - I am working on a figure of the Colonel of 16th Royal Scots in WWI. The entire first string of Edinburgh's Heart of Midlothian Football Club joined that battalion in 1915 even though they were leading the premier league, some breaching their contracts to do so. Can you imagine today's prima donnas joining the infantry to go fight in Iraq or Afghanistan? Times have truly changed.

Colin

 

[Helm]

Ah football or as we like to say

Steve

 

[Filipe]

Here in Brazil we use to say that rugby is for people who doesnt have the motor coordination to play football

 

[Don]

Filipe I have to ask you, what does Brazil know about football?

Lovely country though, been there quite a few times, had a great time.

Don

 

[Filipe]

Filipe I have to ask you, what does Brazil know about football?

You mean the real football or the american one?

 

[Richie]

Filipe I have to ask you, what does Brazil know about football?

Don

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One of me in my playing days

 

[Richie]

You mean the real football or the american one?

He means this

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=htt...sg=AFQjCNHUqaZFeal9z_YyM-dtQc9iUVUpnQ&cad=rja

 

[jcichon]

I'll have to admit that after watching the rugby video, I dont think many american football players could take some of those hits!

 

[kiwi45]

Here in Brazil we use to say that rugby is for people who doesnt have the motor coordination to play football

Well if Football players have that much "coordination" why do they fall/dive all over the place when an opponent gets close...lol

 

[Filipe]

why do they fall/dive all over the place when an opponent gets close

Yeah, sure...just like that.

But i understand you gettind mad. You must defend rugby. Without it, what is left in New Zealand? Sheeps doing the Haka?

Ps: Just kidding, i hope you dont take it personal. If you get really angry with the joke, let me know and i will erase it

 

[JonP]

I'll have to admit that after watching the rugby video, I dont think many american football players could take some of those hits!

Many years ago I had the pleasure of seeing a fledgling rugby team from Huston, Texas play my local club, Kettering RUFC; I don't think they knew what hit them . Things have moved on a bit since then and there are a few Americans now playing in the Aviva Premiership!