This finally solve's the age old question of who the outside world see as the biggest club in sheffield http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1089552/Sleeping-giants-Ten-teams-granted-Premier-League-status-life.html the answer quite rightly is ? answer's on a postcard please ? ;)

I think that the big 6 clubs would love to have a Premiership whithout the threat of relegation and any club elected to it would as well.

I wonder what people think about this? Imagine, guaranteed financial stability, every season would be a clean start.

Would this encourage more investment and long term planning development.

What wouold be the criteria for becoming elected?

This is a very real possibility?

I believe that the American Football leagues have a similar setup.

I don't think any team should be granted premiership status for life. All teams will have good and bad periods through their life. That said, if I had to pick 10 teams, I'd go on, history, location, performance, support. I got 9 quite easily as follows;

Arsenal
Aston Villa
Chelsea
Everton
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle
Tottenham

and then for the 10th it would have to be Sunderland or West Ham.

Then for the second part, the teams you could introduce to the premiership, using the same criteria, I'd go for;

Birmingham City
Burnley
Derby County
Leeds United
Nottingham Forest
Preston
Sheffield United
Sheffield Wednesday
Wolves

and again either Sunderland or West Ham.

Jim

would be good to see the steel city derby in the premier league, a long way to go. with the way money is going in football at the minute i wouldnt be suprised that within a few years it will be highly improbable for a promoted team to gain stability within the top flight.

A "Premiership for life" could and should never happen.

How could it be decided fairly? You could have a club who haven't played in the top division for donkeys years like Preston or Burnley automatically elevated, or the likes of Wigan or Hull automatically demoted for not being big or historic enough despite them reaching the top division on merit.

Or it could become a closed shop on a certain date, which again would be unfair on big clubs outside the top flight who are shut out when small clubs who've only been in the Premiership for a year or two could get an automatic permanent membership.

It'll never be a workable or fair system, leave it as it is.

This finally solve's the age old question of who the outside world see as the biggest club in sheffield http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1089552/Sleeping-giants-Ten-teams-granted-Premier-League-status-life.html the answer quite rightly is ? answer's on a postcard please ? ;)

And The Mail is the final arbiter on all matters to do with football, is it?

Newcastle, big club? God I hate those geordies professing how "massive" they are and always HAVE been...... not a chance.

Went there in 91 and there were only 18k in the ground and we took god knows how many behind the net.

Ten years later there's 55,000 inside claiming to be the biggest club ever...... horrid.

Cant ever see this lot being relegated

Man Utd
Chelsea
Arsenal
Liverpool
Aston Villa
Everton

Other than that i think this season has proved that any of the rest are vunerable

Everton only just stated up a few years back - was it goal difference?

Everton only just stated up a few years back - was it goal difference?

Dodgy Hans Segers wasn't it?? LOL.

Everton only just stated up a few years back - was it goal difference?

2 0 down at home v wimbeldon and came back to win 3 2
am racking mi brains trying to think of goalscorer but know he was a midfielder
Football has changed a lot since those days though and will be very suprised if Everton are ever dragged into the mire

just remembered,it was Graham Stuart who got the winner