The next court session has begun, the lights are dimmed and everybody in attendance is eagerly anticipating Judge K to address the audience. With a hush silence filling the room, the Judge starts passing his sentence --- “It all has started and everything is causing reactions. According to folk lore after a world cup teams play better, just look at the recent victory of England vs. Bulgaria (note the sarcasm) but did anybody see France lose 1-0 to Belarus? Did anybody see Portugal draw 4-4 with Cyprus? The path to Euro 2012 has actually started and the tales are extremely interesting so far. The champions League and Europa Cup has started and the teams are the same and apparently this transfer window was the lowest in 5years with only spending of £250million pounds. Apart from Man City the biggest names that have moved to pastures anew are Van Der Fart (Google that in YouTube) and Joe Cole. All the others are just peripheral players that won’t actually make any difference to how the top 7 of the premier league will finish. Birmingham finished eighth and that was the biggest surprise to only Liverpool finishing seventh. Fulham had a remarkable journey and the relegated teams cannot even be named now. Ah yes Pompy, Hull and Burnley (that actually took research!!) So in a few months we shall be watching Man City trying to qualify for a spot in the Champions League and if Arsenal’s youth team can keep up with the big boys of the premier league. As they say the rest is history BUT what happens if it was all changed? Richard Scudamore is the current Premier Chief Executive, this guy has apparently caused controversy with all things he suggests. For example, do you remember the whole malarkey of playing a game 39 abroad? Do you remember who is expressing a strong desire to follow the rest of Europe in having a winter break? It was his recent idea that got me thinking. As a person who has viewed a few NBA (Basketball) matches and watched the layout of their championship (which is similar to a knock out style) everything he suggested started to make sense and actually had me interested. Confused? Follow the steps carefully and then think about the idea. Ready? · Scrap the Premiership and the Championship and introduce a new 32 team football league (32 teams? Just follow!) · The other teams in the lower leagues can continue doing their business and I really don’t care much for them. I am going to use a few though. · Just have a little look at the MAP below and look at it for a few moments focusing on your football team and the area they are in. Please ignore any problems and Geographical inaccuracies but this is just rough: 
So here we have 4 mini-leagues and if we work on a North/South playoff system, imagine the change in modern football. Still working on a basketball theory, Each league play each other in their league, so let us take Tottenham as an example. We play all the league teams in the country. It is like a normal league. Those teams that finish in the top four of every group qualify for the knock out stages. A south knock out stage and a north knock out stage. Tottenham will lose to Chelsea and Arsenal but beat the rest, putting south together means I roughly finish 3rd in my table. 1st versus 8th, 2nd versus 7th, 3rd versus 6th and 4th versus 5th. Using this, the playoff system actually gets better and towards the end (after a home and away fixture) will result in a southern champion and northern champion and thus a grand anticipated playoff home and away game between the Northern Champions versus the Southern Champions. Think about how cool it would be for teams to actually have greater TV Revenue and more of these teams would be closer to equal than far apart. So using Spurs as the same team, I received £100 million from TV Revenue and paid £40million in transfer fees and the same in wages, I am left with £20million to get a new player for next season BUT Milton Keynes have the same amount of money as revenue and LOADS of salary and transfer fees available. Sooner or later players moving for money would go to MK rather than Spurs and thus a change in the balance of winning teams every four or five years. This is the same principle as a salary cap and makes football in the short term and long term that much more exciting. This is just an opinion and a vision that I was hoping to pass through, let us hope I did. Remember in the last column about a player to lead the strikers line ...? Let me explain the following to you – He has played for Brazil in 97 international matches, amassing 62 goals. He was a part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994, and 2002 World Cups. During the 2006 World Cup, he became the highest goalscorer in the history of the World Cup with his fifteenth goal, surpassing Gerd Müller's previous record of 14. Honours Cruzeiro - Campeonato Mineiro: 1994 - Copa do Brasil: 1993 Barcelona - Copa del Rey: 1997 - UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1997 - Supercopa de España: 1996 Internazionale - UEFA Cup: 1998 Real Madrid- La Liga: 2003, 2007 - Intercontinental Cup: 2002 - UEFA Super Cup: 2002 - Supercopa de España: 2003 Corinthians - Campeonato Paulista: 2009 - Copa do Brasil: 2009
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Supercopa Libertadores Top Scorer: 1993-94 Eredivisie Top Scorer: 1994-95 La Liga Top Scorer: 1996-97,2003–2004 European Golden Boot: 1996-97 UEFA Most Valuable Player: 1997-98 Serie A Footballer of the Year: 1997-98 Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 1997-98 FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1998 Copa América Top Scorer: 1999 Copa América All-Star Team: 1997, 1999 FIFA World Player of the Year: 1996, 1997, 2002 Ballon D'or: 1997, 2002 World Soccer Magazine World Player of The Year: 1996,1997.2002 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1998, 2002 FIFA World Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 2002 FIFA World Cup Top Scorer: 2002 Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player: 2002 UEFA Team of The Year: 2002 Laureus Comeback of the Year: 2002 Strogaldo De Legendary Award 2002 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality: 2002 La Liga South American Player of the Year: 1996-97, 2002–03 Golden Foot: 2006 Brazilian National Hall of Fame inducated: Class of 2006 Serie A Player of the Decade: 1997-2007 France Football Magazine: Starting eleven of all-time: 2007 FIFA World Cup All-Time Scoring Leader Goal.com : Player of a decade: Winner 2000-2010
So who is it?
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁoˈnaɫdu luˈiz naˈzaɾiu dʒi ˈlimɐ]; born 22 September 1976), commonly known as Ronaldo
That’s who!
I am the Judge and this Court is dismissed!!”
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