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The Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) season needs to be selected a points-per-game foundation with relegation scrapped, in response to Brighton & Hove Albion supervisor Hope Powell.
FILE PHOTO: Former England ladies’s soccer coach Hope Powell smiles throughout a information convention at Wembley Stadium in London October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
REUTERS: The Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) season needs to be selected a points-per-game foundation with relegation scrapped, in response to Brighton & Hove Albion supervisor Hope Powell.
Soccer in England has been suspended since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the English Soccer Affiliation stated on Wednesday it’s in talks with the WSL and the second-tier Ladies’s Championship over methods to conclude the season.
“For me, factors per recreation with no relegation,” Powell stated throughout a Zoom convention. “I feel it will be vastly unfair to relegate a workforce when the season hasn’t been in a position to be performed out via no person’s fault.
“Maybe promote one from the Championship. I feel it is actually vital that there’s an consequence, definitely for Champions League locations.”
Manchester Metropolis had been prime of the WSL desk, one level forward of second-placed Chelsea, who’ve a recreation in hand, when matches had been suspended.
Powell’s Brighton had been in ninth place and secure from relegation whereas Liverpool had been backside of the standings.
Below the points-per-game system, Chelsea would leapfrog Man Metropolis to take the title and Liverpool can be relegated to the second tier. Aston Villa, who had been six factors clear on the prime of the Ladies’s Championship, can be promoted.
(Reporting by Arvind Sriram in Bengaluru, modifying by Ed Osmond)
