Ordinary Gweilo

After the idiotic decision to ban stripes on the back of shirts comes another piece of brilliance from the people who run football.

Time was when everyone knew where they stood. There was a 1st Division, a 2nd Division, a 3rd Division and a 4th Division. Simple, easy to understand, no confusion.

Then the top clubs broke away from the Football League to form the Premiership, so the 2nd Division became the 1st Division (and so on). Now (just 12 years later) the geniuses have decided to rename the 1st Division to be ‘The Championship’, and the 2nd Division will become League One. This means that the 4th Division as it was a dozen years is now League Two, but nothing else has changed apart from the name. Still, I’m sure all the clubs at the level now feel much better about their status.

Apart from anything else, it makes historical comparisons very difficult. We do have the rather inelegant "top flight" to represent the old 1st Division and the current Premiership, but how will we refer to the 2nd Division/1st Division/The Championship?

Madness.