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Friday, 20 July 2012 13:44 |
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Truely a fun show. Very much an old timers game atmosphere. I loved reading all teh comments form the players involved.
What I found amazing was that 33,000 went to watch, and that in itself makes it special, due to the money raised for a good cause.
Mdot, I actually hope that the B Squads don't dominate the Liga de Honra. If that was to be the case, it would hurt the league further. The mid to lower table teams can't afford to buy those B Squad players in order to improve, and it would damage the Liga de Honra clubs as well. Imagine the Benfica, Porto and Sporting B Squads finishing 1, 2 and 3 in the Liga de Honra. At that point the 4th and 5th place would get promoted. It just looks awful and makes the league irrelevant, in my eyes.
I get killed for rooting mostly for my club, but I will say that I wouldn't want Benfica's B squad to win or dominat the Liga de Honra. It would be awful, for Portuguese futebol.
I for one would have been more comfortable to have the B Squads start at even lower divisions and have them earn their way to the Liga de Honra instead of increasing the amount of teams to a silly amount.
Spain has 20 clubs in La Liga and 22 clubs in the 2nd Div. Portugal with only 16 clubs in the SuperLiga also have 22 in the Liga de Honra. Silly.
I also find it ridiculous that Guimaraes is allowed to field a B Squad. They have huge financial issues and just asked or cut players salaries up to 50%. This is a club that should not be allowed a B Squad. If so, they shouldn't be allowed into the Liga de Honra at all. Clubs that want to field B Squads should actually have tougher requirements.
I know in Spain that Barcelona B finished third in '10/'11 but they were not allowed to get promoted and Villarreal B has also done well. Since Villarreal was relegated last season, it will mean that their B Squad will also have to drop out of the 2nd Div eventhough it finished 12th.
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