Should The English Premiership Take Games Overseas?

In recent years, the English Premier League has become the most exciting and interesting League to watch across the globe. As a result of its wide popularity, some people have continued to ask whether it will be good to take premiership games overseas. Although the English premiership is always exciting for both soccer players and fans across the globe, to take premiership games overseas is quite unreasonable. If such a decision would be taken which I doubt, it will not favor the English League players and fans in any way. In this article, I will try to highlight some points that make the decision to take Premiership games abroad unreasonable and unfavorable for the English League Players, their fans and would- be hosts. These reasons will be highlighted in the discourse that follows.

No matter how close any overseas country may be to England, taking Premiership games overseas will bring more fatigue among players. Long travels usually result to tiredness of players before any game, that is, if they have lesser time to do some training. If the English FA decides to take the action of moving some Premiership games overseas, they will not be helping the players, as the teams will have little time left to train, and as a result, their match fitness will always be called to question. When this sort of thing happens, the general performance of would- be affected Premiership teams would drop drastically.

At this point, the cost implication will be put under consideration. If the aforementioned action is taken, which is, taken Premiership games overseas; it will cost both the English FA and Football Clubs a lot of money to be able to organize such games. For the Football Clubs, transporting both players and fans to a long distance destination will cost them a fortune. This will lead to a sharp drop in the number of fans each team will be traveling with whenever it comes to overseas games, and the games will not be lively with less English fans on the stands.

On the part of would- be host countries, any decision to host Premiership games would hamper the progress of their own domestic league. We cannot deny the fact that the English Premiership games are exciting to watch, therefore, for a country to agree on hosting them, will simply turn their citizens into watching Premiership games at the expense of their own domestic League games. It certainly will not be helping any country that aims to increase the number of their domestic league viewers.

The English Premiership games are normally exciting to watch, but a decision to take some of the games overseas would be unfavorable not only for Premiership players and fans, but also for would- be hosts.