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10 German top tips to fix English football
1. Get fans to own clubs
In German football, the fans own 51% of their club. English football should adopt a similar policy, but the needs of stakeholder oligarchs need to be taken into consideration. As such, 51% of each club most be owned by a multi-member consortium of foreign billionaires.
2. Get some Poles in
Germany, putting the past well and truly behind her, has welcomed Polish footballers with open arms and Poles now form key components for many of the top Bundesliga teams. With Britain currently leading the EU in importing Polish workers, there must be some lads in the building trade who could make the step up to Premier League football, and probably at a fraction of the wages of lazy, indigenous footballers.
3. Allow beer in stadia
The Premier League, unlike the Bundesliga, does not allow fans to drink beer while watching a match. Fortunately, the beer is Budweiser so nobody minds.
4. Make tickets cheaper
A season ticket at Bayern Munich costs as little as one Euro a year, while fans who pay 10 euros a season get to watch the match in a jacuzzi on the halfway line with Heidi Klum. Meanwhile fans at Arsenal are charged thousands of pounds just to breathe half-time air, provided by Emirates. Prices must be cut immediately, with the savings poured back into paying Gervinho’s wages.
5. Sort out the relationship between fans and players
While English footballers are more estranged from their supporters than at any point in history, top German stars have a strong bond with their fans. Under new initiative ‘Kick Alienation Out Of Football’, top Premier League stars to take ten fans a week out for a “get to know” you session. Venue: Nandos.
6. Take Jurgen Klopp's unkempt fashion advice
Although the days of flat caps and initialed tracksuit-tops are thankfully behind us, English football still lacks for imagination when it comes to managerial fashion choices. Where is our Jurgen Klopp, who favours a look somewhere between dishevelled tech startup worker at 2am and street vagrant? How much better would Chelsea v Manchester United be if Rafael Benítez and Sir Alex Ferguson turned up looking like this?
7. Humiliate the tiresome Barcelona clones
Bayern Munich beat the sense out of Barcelona and have killed slow-burning pass-tastic possession football forever. Surely it is time to condemn their copyists, the Swansea Cities, the Arsenals and the Brendan Rodgerses to the same fate? It is the only way they'll learn. Unless, as Arsenal did, they manage to beat Bayern Munich...
8. Rip seats out of stadiums
Safe standing has worked in Germany, why couldn't it work here? Naysayers will point to differing cultures, hooligan memories and the fact that Germans are just much better people than us. But at least the renovation work necessary for our stada would give Millwall fans something to do.
9. Reclaim Three Lions
Is it any coincidence that Germany's rise to the apex of the footballing world has come after a longstanding love affair with the Baddiel / Skinner / Lightning Seeds classic? It's been at least two years since the old gang got back together to release a new version, so now is the time to find out whether re-engaging with our (second) greatest ever football song can propel English football back to the giddy heights of finishing joint-third in things. Football's coming home is coming home!
10. Eliminate Stoke City
They are damaging the delicate EPL brand, and could be replaced by an anarchist group of rebels that seem frightening to outsiders but are defended to the hilt by their loyal fans. A bit like St Pauli in Germany. Or, erm, Stoke City.
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