Your ideal top flight/Premier League

[Diable Rouge]

Evidently most people who did this were fellow children of the Nineties, as I chose 18 out of the most selected 20 clubs:

https://www.football.london/premier-...n-16071302.amp

[sw2borshch]

It'd have 24 clubs for a start.

[Sits]

I was four different to the "most picked", three of which would be Reading and the Old Farm protagonists.

[Patrick Thistle]

I had 14 of the most picked. Admittedly I included Shrewsbury in my list. #loyalty

[anton pulisov]

Norwich, Arsenal, Plymouth, Man Utd, Liverpool, Forest, Sunlun, Palace, Villa, West Ham, Southampton, West Brom, Leeds, Newcastle, Everton, Leicester, Wednesday, Spurs, Wolves, Derby, Norwich

[Ray de Galles]

• 1

  AFC Wimbledon

• 2

  Arsenal

• 3

  Aston Villa

• 4

  Chelsea

• 5

  Coventry City

• 6

  Crystal Palace

• 7

  Everton

• 8

  Fulham

• 9

  Leeds

• 10

  Leicester

• 11

  Liverpool

• 12

  Man City

• 13

  Man Utd

• 14

  Norwich

• 15

  Nottm Forest

• 16

  Sheffield Wed

• 17

  Southampton

• 18

  Swansea

• 19

  Tottenham

• 20

  Wolves

[Ray de Galles]

Oh, that came out different to how I expected. That's not my ideal finishing order, apart from the winners, obvs.

[anton pulisov]

ah shite, I forgot Wimbledon. Swap them out for Spurs.

Nobody will notice.

[Ray de Galles]

I'm intrigued by your choice of Plymouth?

[Greenlander]

Makes perfect sense to me. Though if it's trying to spread the geography out it should probably be Bristol City nowadays. A decade ago we ran neck and neck but they've improved everything about the club, we most certainly have not.

My list would be the same as anton except maybe Blackburn for Palace and, much as it pains me, the red side of Bristol in place of Argyle.

[Ray de Galles]

Oh, I've nothing against Plymouth, just wasn't sure of AP's motivation. Geographical spread is a perfectly fair one, of course, if that's what it was.

[Kevin S]

Norwich, Arsenal, Plymouth, Man Utd, Liverpool, Forest, Sunlun, Palace, Villa, West Ham, Southampton, West Brom, Leeds, Newcastle, Everton, Leicester, Wednesday, Spurs, Wolves, Derby, Norwich

Double Norwich. Excellent choice.

[Sporting]

It'd have 24 clubs for a start.

Or 30, as was the case in Argentina until recently.

[anton pulisov]

Plymoyth Argyle are in there for two reasons: (1) geographical spread (2) to have a team playing in green (they are the only one in the English leagues).

[Gangster Octopus]

Apart from Yeovil (until the end of the season)...

[anton pulisov]

Nothing shows age like trivia that is 16 seasons out of date.

[Ray de Galles]

One positive about Yeovil going out of the league is that they may end the ghastly tacky experiment with green & white hoops that they only adopted after winning promotion from the Conference.

[Tapiocahead]

I will probably find out in person next season but surely Forest Green play in green? Both parts of their name are green , they should have green shirts with brown shorts and socks.

[Diable Rouge]

I will probably find out in person next season but surely Forest Green play in green? Both parts of their name are green , they should have green shirts with brown shorts and socks.

Yellow and black, apparently.

[Ray de Galles]

No, it's (lime) green and black.

Though it should be black and white, there was a tacky rebrand in 2012

[Janik]

I tried to construct a top flight with decent ownership out of all the sides who have ever played in the Premier League. I didn't even reach double figures...

[treibeis]

Yellow and black, apparently.

Many, many moons ago, I played against Forest Green reserves. I can remember that we won, I can remember it took ages to get there, but I can't remember what colour shirts they had.

A few moons before that, I played in a game in which Forest Green's current manager burst into tears when, at the behest of his dad (who wasn't the manager), he was substituted for not tackling back.

[Sean of the Shed]

I started typing in names of teams and as I started to type in Tottenham I realised that they didn't belong in my ideal top flight. Nothing against Spurs, but my ideal top flight is as it was in 1977/78, and they were a division below. That season was the first season that I took an interest in football and got my first Panini album. I was seduced by Brian Clough's Forest team, as were many kids in Lincoln at the time.
This is what the perfect top flight should look like.

[Sporting]

Plymoyth Argyle are in there for two reasons: (1) geographical spread (2) to have a team playing in green (they are the only one in the English leagues).

Maybe Celtic should be allowed in.

[Duncan Gardner]

Crusaders
Linfailed
Gurntoran
Criminville

Ballymena hey
Coleraine
A Prod Town
Glenavon

Larne
Carrick
Newry
Warren point

Mallards
Dungannon
Institute
Ards

Leagues with more than 16 teams are the spunk of Satan