JOE readers’ best and worst ideas for improving professional football

We asked for suggestions and, boy howdy, you did not disappoint

During the week there were a number of leaks printed by Der Spiegel in Germany and subsequently published by the world's media outlets regarding FIFA and world football in general. Aside from the usual stuff suggesting impropriety by the eternally honest and principled people in Zurich, there was one leak which stood out to everyone: the fact that Europe's top clubs are strongly pushing for the creation of a European Super League. The proposed Super League would see 16 of Europe's top teams featured, with 11 of them - known not at all creepily as "the founders" - guaranteed to avoid relegation with memberships of 20 years. The other five sides would be known as "guests". So, yeah, it's a fucking dreadful idea designed to further fill the pockets of elite football's already very filled pockets, and it would almost certainly make football worse. But it did give us an idea: what other proper changes could be made to football to actually improve it? So we asked you all. The responses ranged from really quite good, to clearly jokes, to ones which unfortunately were not jokes but still quite bad. We'll let you decide which are which. Enjoy. https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1058757700820090880 https://twitter.com/kylepicknell/status/1058765062641467399 https://twitter.com/jsul23/status/1059022986903257088 https://twitter.com/3songsnoflash/status/1058766765356957696 https://twitter.com/JonWalters19/status/1058773195678011392 https://twitter.com/2jonkershaw/status/1058760495782600704 https://twitter.com/SteLalley/status/1058758981399859200 https://twitter.com/PointlessLFC/status/1058758191511732224 https://twitter.com/k12ddo/status/1058757905393033216 https://twitter.com/jayan41/status/1058758482059517958 https://twitter.com/TRJHobart/status/1058758094052904963 https://twitter.com/Steven_Brosnan/status/1058761446975246337 https://twitter.com/FinGringle/status/1058758641644388352 https://twitter.com/Latheal/status/1058779801014681600 https://twitter.com/owenmorris_/status/1058761786479071232 https://twitter.com/dannykingbiz/status/1058897301765263360 https://twitter.com/ChrisTwigger2/status/1058789724024905728 https://twitter.com/richbez/status/1058829673310892033 https://twitter.com/tivolipoo/status/1059005707725479936 https://twitter.com/xiButton/status/1058866389933527041 https://twitter.com/TheSportsDean/status/1058827187980304384 https://twitter.com/fr_dick_byrne/status/1058821065852575749 https://twitter.com/stu_db/status/1058783425426022402 https://twitter.com/JackMurray2/status/1058780766983913473 So there we have it. Some of the suggestions are decent and some are, well, let's just say that we hope none of you ever find yourselves in positions of authority within football.