Leeds United’s Owners Benefit From “League” Politics
It may be heading in the direction of cliché somewhat to start any sort of public statement with a definition from a dictionary, but on some occasions it is so wholly and completely appropriate that we are left with no alternative but to do exactly that. When football competitions started to form themselves into competitions in which everybody played each other home and away (and this, it has been written elsewhere, is the English game's most enduring and longest lasting legacy in terms of world football), they didn't choose the phrase "round robin" or any one of a number of other phrases to distinguish itself from other types of sports competitions (the word "league" in a sporting sense, for the record, can only be traced back as far as 1879).
Twohundredpercent @ Mar 4, 2010 5:15 PM EDT | Blog Profile
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