[bradcali]

Its not turning out to be a very good week for Chris.Following his dissappointing night at the Sonys its even more bad news from Elland Road tonight ,as his beloved Leeds Utd was beaten by Millwall in the play offs,so its another year down in division 1 for them.Lets hope he has a better time away on holiday!

[in4308]

Not a major moan but please can you start to use some capitals in your threads titles....I'm saying it nicely as the other will no doubt shout at you.

[S4B]

Oh for crying out loud! Can you not find something positive to say Bradcali?!

[bradcali]

I used a capital C for Chris!

[in4308]

I used a capital C for Chris!

Yes, but more should have had a capital too.

[S4B]

Some spaces after punctuation would be useful too!

[Boboff]

Leave him alone, he is very obviously special.

[Yudster]

He's a pillock. A special pillock.

[MK Chris]

He is marginally less of a pillock than wireman2004. Marginally.

[lima eel]

so its another year down in division 1 for them.!

League One.

[Munki Bhoy]

Still, on the plus side, Leeds are in the third tier for another season. Hopefully along side MK Dons.

[MK Chris]

Oh, they're playing tonight, aren't they. Good job I don't need to go to Asda or Ikea tonight.

[Johnny 1989]

so its another year down in division 1 for them.!

League One.

I'll be honest I prefer the old Division 1-3 names, although Bradcali should have put Division 2 instead, Division 1 was the league they were trying to get promoted to.

[button08]

No league 1 is now the championship

[Yudster]

No, Division 2 is now the Championship. League 1 has always been League 1. It used to be Division 3. League 2 used to be Division 4.

[in4308]

It goes:

Premier League
Championship
League 1
League 2

and so on....I think.

[in4308]

Topic overboard.

[S4B]

No, Division 2 is now the Championship. League 1 has always been League 1. It used to be Division 3. League 2 used to be Division 4.

It goes:

Premier League
Championship
League 1
League 2

and so on....I think.

There's the blue square premiership somewhere.

Huh?! Why does it all have to be so confusing? Why can't it just be 1 - 999 (or whatever) Why do they have to complicate things?

[Yudster]

There are all sorts of "non league" leagues, the Blue Square is one of them, and they are all pretty much irrelevant. Other than that its extremely easy.

[TIAL]

It goes from Premier League to Blue Square Premier League. Then it splits into different leagues that run in parallel.
Probably best explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_fo ... The_system

[Johnny 1989]

No league 1 is now the championship

No, Division 2 is now the Championship. League 1 has always been League 1. It used to be Division 3. League 2 used to be Division 4.

Until 1992 it was:

Division 1
Division 2
Division 3
Division 4 (Line for those who don't believe me) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Fourth_Division

With the creation of The Premiership for the 1992/3 Season it became

Division 1 > Premier League
Division 2 > Division 1
Division 3 > Division 2
Division 4 > Division 3


Then in 2004 the lower leagues were renamed again:

Premier League
Division 1 > Championship
Division 2 > League One
Division 3 > League Two

As for the (Vauxhall) Confrenence, that one has changed several times over the last 30 years but I won't bother listing that one

[Munki Bhoy]

And you all copied us cos we went from Division One and Division Two to Premier Division, First Division, Second Division in the 70s.

Or to put that another way, we don't understand what the word "Premier" means and you lot should know better.

[Johnny 1989]

And you all copied us cos we went from Division One and Division Two to Premier Division, First Division, Second Division in the 70s.

Or to put that another way, we don't understand what the word "Premier" means and you lot should know better.

Premier is French for first (I do realise you were joking with the don't understand bit before you roll your eyes )

I believe in all cases the renames have all been something to do with "money", Division 1 was renamed Premier league due to (if I recall correctly) Sky snapping up the TV rights & Divisions 1-3 were renamed as Coca Cola took over sponsorship of those leagues (and of course made them sound more American!)