Sunday, August 20, 2017

Holy Jesus Christ, that is Huddersfield Town's stadium immediately after the Newcastle match. That look's like a town's stadium alright, but not a Premier League stadium. Holy Jesus Christ.
Holy hell, the press room after the match. Iain Macintosh covered the match and his caption to this photo is "David Wagner [I guess the Town manager] seems much happier about today's result. And he was impressed with the refurbished press room too." "The refurbished press room." "The refurbished press room"? Was it enlarged, too? Oh my God.
"Huddersfield fans await the arrival of the teams." Are there as many there as there were Nazis in that pavilion on Boston Common yesterday? Yes, right?
                                                                        Maybe not.

This is the problem with the promotion/relegation system. This is Huddersfield's first time in the EPL, can you tell? The town is not ready for the EPL, Jesus Christ, the club is!, they earned it, but not the town, not the stadium, not the press room, and this is the problem with the promotion/relegation system. Huddersfield, population 169,000, is halfway between Leeds, 782,000, an historic if now historically dilapidated, football city and...Manchester (541,000), the epicenter of British football and arguably world football. They have No. Chance. of staying in the Premier League long-term, c'mon. Jesus Christ. Since they do not, why promote them? Can't you go to a, say, best three year record or something? A club catches lightening in a bottle one year and BOOM! they're playing Manchester City and Chelsea and Arsenal in London. C'mon, man.

How about having some standards besides club performance for promotion like they do in scholarly tackle football in the States? Your stadium has to seat, whatever it is, say 35,000; you have to average 25,000 per/game paid attendance, things like that. You know what the capacity of Huddersfield's stadium is? 24,129. C'mon man.