There are two finely balanced finals to eye forward to this weekend but have fans been let down by the schedule?The other evening I was thumbing through my dog-eared copy of Moneyball – gotta enact something on your wedding anniversary,haven’t you? – and happened upon the line from Billy Beane about the postseason being a complete crapshoot, and it got me thinking about Sunday’s MLS conference finals.
Are play-offs right and proper? My colleague Graham Ruthven mused on whether Europe’s top leagues could ever institute an close-of-season play-off format, or but acknowledged that to Euro soccer purists the plan is anathema. Why endure a 34-game season of blood,sweat and tears, only to start from scratch in the plunge?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com