Dave Whelan up in arms over the “scrap the relegation” proposal – English Premier League
Dave Whelan the Wigan Athletic chairman has come out in the media and criticized the proposal to scrap the relegation process in the English Premier League altogether. The Wigan Athletic owner was up in arms in his interview recently
as he scrutinized the foreign owner’s suggestion that relegation should be done away with altogether and a new system of franchise should be introduced into the English football system.
Whelan’s Wigan have had a disastrous start to the English Premier League thus far and they are prime contenders to get relegated come May, 2012 but the Englishman is against the proposal itself even though it might be beneficial
for his club in the short run.
At the moment, English Premier League functions around the relegation process which means that the bottom three teams in the league get relegated at the end of the season whilst the top three teams in the football league are promoted
upwards into the Premier League. The news of such a proposal was made public by Richard Bevan on Monday who came out and said that the foreign owners of some of the clubs in the English Premier League were in favour of implementing a franchise system.
Manchester United’s manager Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson has already said that such a move would be equivalent of a suicide by the Premier League and now Whelan has threatened to take his club out of the Premier League on a voluntary basis
to escape away from the franchise system, if indeed it is implemented.
The Wigan Athletic chairman said, "It's the most stupid suggestion I've ever heard in my life. If it was to happen I would resign Wigan from the Premier League and go back and play in the Football League. It's a worrying thought
that if we get 14 or 15 foreign owners (in the Premier League), they come up with some mad idea and it gets voted through. It would ruin and kill English football. It's got to be competitive; every club has got to have that ambition to get to the Premier League,
that's why our league is so good. It's an appalling suggestion. It would ruin and kill English football."
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