English County Senior Cup Group Stages and Expansion. -
My idea is that English football should use their county cups, and regional cups like the Birmingham Senior Cup, Northumberland Senior Cup, Liverpool Senior Cup, and London Challenge Cup, and other county or regional cups as a way to increase the number of local derbies, and to give games for the big side's B teams against first teams of smaller sides.
So the local English Premier League sides, and local English Football League sides would enter B sides. While local non-league sides, and local university sides would enter those same county cups.
But the County Cups would have group stages, followed by knockout rounds, to give game time to young, and fringe players, at big clubs. While the local non-league sides would get local derby games against smaller and bigger teams.
Perhaps even expansion to allow clubs from nearby regions to enter the trophies as guest sides?
Perhaps there could also be super cups played between the winners of each County Cup?
Like a Manchester - Liverpool Super Cup, played between the winners of the Manchester Senior Cup, and Liverpool Senior Cup.
This refers to England. But Scotland, Ireland, and Wales could do the same.
Also do the same with Scottish, Irish, and Welsh cups based on the local counties in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. With the counties in the Scottish, Northern Irish, Republic of Ireland, and Welsh nation's County Cup having group stages, B teams, non-league sides, lower tier sides, university sides, and guest side expansions, and perhaps Super Cups between different County Cup winners.
Perhaps Ireland could have provincial cups each with the B teams of top sides, the first teams of non-league, lower tier first team sides, and the first teams of university sides represented?
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