British Premier Soccer Cup

British Premier Soccer Cup.

I would love the football authorities in Great Britain to have a British Premier Cup between all the sides of the Scottish Premiership, plus selected Welsh / Cymru Premier sides. Plus all the sides of the English Premier League and English Championship who have not qualified for Europe. Perhaps even sides from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland could take part. But then it would need to be called the British and Irish Premier Cup if it had sides from Ireland also.

My reasoning is that I do not want the Scottish, Welsh and English leagues to merge. As that would destroy Scottish football history and would take away the chances for Scottish sides to qualify for Europe, and win national trophies. Also clubs in Scotland could be doing twenty 500 mile away trips a season in a united British League.

My preferred option is to have 3 or 5 strong national leagues in the British Isles. Rather than one strong league.

If we had cross border cups involving English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish sides then that would pump money into the Scottish, Welsh and Irish soccer clubs.

People in the Celtic nations would love their clubs to play English sides without giving up their own separate leagues.

If the English soccer authorities really want to help Scottish, Welsh and Irish sides to grow. Then instead of merging our leagues. It would be more fun and kinder to have cross border cups on top of the domestic leagues and European football.

That way we could have 3 or 5 strong leagues in the British and Irish Isles.

For Scotland, if the top Scottish clubs could earn tens of millions from playing EPL sides every season, that could transform some Scottish clubs to being capable of winning major European trophies while still competing in their own leagues. Give Celtic or Rangers 40 million pounds each, while still being in the SPFL, and they could be rich enough to win the Champions League let alone the Europa League and Europa Conference League.

Plus they could still stay in their own league and win trophies.

While if we merged the Scottish and English Premiers, then most Scottish clubs would be lucky to reach the third tier of a British League. And the few that did would be having multi-hundred-mile trips 20 times at least a season.

The preferable option is to keep the SPFL, and keep Scottish sides playing in their own league, but have at most 7 or eight away trips to England each season.

That could still generate lots of money for all Scottish Premiership sides and still keep the trips to England as a novelty, that fans would not grow tired of.  

I would love my fave Scottish clubs to play some English club sides each season, but not so much that travel would be too tough.

Scottish Premiership sides would be able to exploit the fun and banter of the Scotland – England rivalry.

The Welsh Cymru Premier sides would benefit from this to an incredible extent. It would be transformational. The status and money from playing EPL and English Championship sides would be massive for the Welsh Cymru Premier club sides. It would transform the selected Welsh Cymru Premier sides who join the trophy.

Cardiff City, Swansea City, Wrexham and Newport County already play in the English Football system, but Cymru Premier sides would benefit from keeping their own leagues but playing against top English sides.

It is not too far for Welsh sides to travel to England and Scotland.

For years Colwyn Bay, Caernarfon, Rhyl and Bangor City played in the English non-league system, so if they were able to play entire season in the English non-league system, why not a handful of away trips to England a season to play top English sides?

The Irish sides would also benefit. But even some full-time sides in Great Britain might find travelling Ireland too difficult. But I would love it if Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland could enter clubs in a British and Irish Premier Cup.

The Scottish were allowed to have English, Welsh and Irish sides in the Scottish Challenge Cup, so UEFA would be OK about cross border cups.

I think cross border British Premier cups would allow club sides in the Celtic nations of Wales and Scotland, to grow bigger.

It could see the leading Scottish sides to do well in European trophies. It could also cause Welsh sides to move up a level and do well in European trophies, Perhaps gaining enough finances to qualify regularly for the Europa League Group stages.

If the English really want to help Celtic soccer, then give us cross border cup trophies with English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and Republic of Ireland club sides.

People would say travel is tough.

I accept that is a reason to not merge the British leagues. As it would be tough for Scottish sides to travel 20 times a season to England. But the entire point of keeping our domestic leagues but having cross border cups on top of domestic and European football, would be that we would still get the fun of cross border matches, without it becoming a burden and tedious to travel over the border every week.

When you look at the trips teams to in the Australian, Brazilian, Russian, Indian, United States, Mexican, Canadian, German and Chinese sports leagues, then a handful of trips like Inverness to Coventry is not too much.

I think a British Premier Cup would be a great addition on top of European and domestic soccer,

It would cost the English hardly anything, yet would help the Scottish and Welsh grow their clubs enormously. A British Premier Cup, would allow us to have 3 strong national leagues in Great Britain. A British and Irish Cup could allow us to have 5 strong national leagues in the British and Irish Isles.

A British Premier Football Cup could have games like Aberdeen V Coventry City, Wolverhampton Wanderers v Glasgow Celtic, Watford v Glasgow Rangers, Everton v Dundee United, Cardiff City v Motherwell, Heart of Midlothian v Newcastle United, Hibernian v The New Saints, Connah’s Quay Nomads v Crystal Palace, Aston Villa v St Johnstone, St Mirren v West Ham United, Livingston v Leeds United, and Ross County v Leicester City.

 

I also support the EFL Trophy having all Scottish Premier sides who have not qualified for Europe.

Plus I would support all Welsh Premier sides and selected Southern Scottish sides in the English non-league FA Trophy.