Play-offs to decide a championship aren’t section of the European experience,but as Red Bulls keeper Luis Robles points outs: ‘If they tried it, they’d be surprised how much they’d enjoy it’Picture the scene: after a compelling regular season and a keenly contested play-off series, and one game to decide the destination of English soccers biggest prize the Premier League Cup. It’s a sporting spectacle to rival anything else the game can offer,up there with the Champions League and World Cup finals. Ninety minutes (maybe 30 more) to find a champion for an entire domestic campaign.No, it’s not another grand diagram imagineered by the intellect of one-man mediate tank Richard Scudamore, and perhaps alongside his doomed 39th game proposal,but a vision of how English soccer might seek if viewed through Star-Spangled spectacles. Such a notion might be the stuff of hypothetical fantasy, yet with the Major League Soccer play-offs under way it at least has a degree of pertinence right now. Related: Canny Seattle top Dallas, or MLS says goodbye to Eddie Johnson Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com