A new competition - at the beginning it was a great idea of the association, but now the BFV is doing a lot wrong.
Who should take this trophy seriously?
Could you just put your cigarette down and run 100 meters in 20 seconds without falling!
Then you are better than an endurance runner who does ten kilometers in less than 34 minutes.
Do not you believe?
Then you know neither the quotient regulation nor the mode of the league cup.
The Bavarian Football Association (BFV) has created a competition with which it keeps its clubs fit in times of pandemics, while expanding the league operation to two years.
Great idea.
But then he did everything wrong.
After the restart in autumn, the BFV ordered the leagues to take a winter break after just four games and preferred to start with the league cup.
Because of the corona, some played once, others three times in their preliminary round.
And now?
The association had the point mean calculated from the previous games.
1 game, 1 win = better than 2 wins + 1 draw.
Mathematically okay, sporty nonsense, because in the "everyone against everyone" mode you can only be billed after everyone has played against everyone.
A single win against the weakest in the group must not be the ticket to the round of 16 if others have to fight their way through three times and - to stay in the picture - run uphill because the opponent uses the goal scorer from the first.
The BFV could now have canceled the competition or declared the preliminary round, which was not even half played, invalid and had a cup round played with everyone.
But he prefers to work on a playoff, for which even third-placed players from groups of four qualify in the district league, while TSV Isen has to play an elimination game as the A-class first in a group of five.
And then the games are scheduled before the league starts, although all clubs emphasize that the league has top priority.
The truth, so one hears, is the following: In the League Cup, participants in the Totopokal are determined.
And that is lucrative for the BFV because it is sponsored by Lotto Bayern.
That is why we have this league cup, which, according to its history, has as much appeal as the Nations League of national teams.
Whereby: The clubs that are allowed to rise after five games won will show the league competitors the long nose.
“Ten kilometers?
Themselves to blame.
We have taken the shortcut. "