Man City manager Pep Guardiola is the latest to have his say on Todd Boehly's controversial all-stars game idea, which he suggested at a recent conference.
As with the NFL, there is one game every season with the National Football Conference playing the American Football Conference. Extrapolate this into the English footballing remit, and this would be a north vs south game filled with all the best players from within the Premier League. The one-off match that takes place annually produces big revenue returns for clubs and their owners, who continue to look into ways of making more money by Marketing and off the field ideas and one on it.
Boehly gave his idea during a SALT conference earlier this week in a chat that also signalled the part of LA Dodger's owners' intentions to buy a feeder club abroad, with Portugal and Belgium name-checked whilst Brazil is also a possible destination. He asked: "Why don't we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams? Why isn't there an All-Star game?