The Atlantic is not wide enough

After buying out the Salford Quays Buccaneers, the Birmingham Villans and the Liverpool Stealers, the American's are plotting their next move in the mission to takeover British Soccerball.




The Football League will meet to discuss the proposal of abolishing "draws" from the Football League.

Instead of having a 1-1 stalemate with the points being shared, the proposal is to hold a penalty shoot-out should the teams be deadlocked after 90 minutes. Both teams would still be guaranteed the point, just as they are now, but the winners of the penalty shoot-out will take home an extra point.

You don't need me to tell you which country this crackpot theory has come from.

The supporters of the idea claim that such a system would make games more open and exciting, which would be no bad thing, had this not been the most senseless way of going about it.

Take the current system. At the moment it's not uncommon for teams to play out for a point against better opposition. It's not nice to watch but it's a necessary evil of the modern game. Now take the new idea, which is essentially encouraging these same tactics by potentially doubling the points on offer to the side using negative tactics.

And it gets worse when you here noises that this scheme would involve the "American style" shoot-out. Under the Yank's arse-backwards system, the action doesn't take place with a single strike from the infamous 12-yard spot, but way back to the half-way line. Said player than has 10 seconds to dribble unopposed to the goalmouth and attempt to score. It's a stupid system and the man who invented it should locked away in a dark room in the interests of public safety.

Remember those Budweiser adverts that were doing the rounds a few years back....

..how much of a joke did you think they actually were?