Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media
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I think I’ve mentioned this before but Ted Lasso has some interesting implications for the sporting world. First of all Lasso coached at Wichita State, which doesn’t have football but is a decent basketball school that makes march madness frequently. So either they started up a football program, or they never dropped it ( they had a Division 1 team until the mid 80s.) Plus the announcer says they are Division 2. So they either have gone down a level in all sports or the NCAA allows colleges to have sports in different divisions. This used to be more common as basketball schools like Georgetown and Butler played D3 football but had major basketball programs.
Also, with Lasso at Richmond AFC, their owner says they don’t have a lot of trophies. They obviously play in the Premier League, but must have been just good enough not to get relegated, as they’d probably have more trophies for bouncing back up from the 2nd division. So they aren’t a pathetically bad team, but a middle to lower middle of the road team that just kind of exists.
Also, with Lasso at Richmond AFC, their owner says they don’t have a lot of trophies. They obviously play in the Premier League, but must have been just good enough not to get relegated, as they’d probably have more trophies for bouncing back up from the 2nd division. So they aren’t a pathetically bad team, but a middle to lower middle of the road team that just kind of exists.
Promotion from the Championship to the Prem doesn’t actually require winning the Championship.
Of the 3 Championship teams that were promoted to this year’s PL for example, Fulham won the league to get promoted, Bournemouth was league runners up, and Forest finished 4th but won the playoff.
If Richmond was perpetually rubberbanding between the Prem and the Championship, they could actually have won very few trophies but are perpetual runners up
As a Norwich City fan rubberbanding or being a 'Yo-Yo Club' is our lot. Only hope I have is we are now competing with Leicester City and Manchester City for the most Championship Titles on record!
Another interesting thing from the Ted Lasso ATL is that West Ham United is now under new management that used to own Richmond......that would make derby days very very very spicy!
One weird set of films that can be linked are "Dr. Dolittle " and "Shanghai Knights". In both films, an unknown British Lord attempts to overthrow the British Monarchy, both targeting Queen Victoria:
Chuck Sherlock Holmes in there for the plot to poison Parliament as well...
"Around the world in 80 days" might also fit
It also features Jackie Chan and Queen Victoria with a group of british nobles who openly disdain the monarchy betting against him while the Queen supported his effort
Not to mention the first flight was made years earlier using parts from a ship while at sea.
Not to mention in "Doctor Dolittle ", the idea of psychology for humans, much less animals and pets is developed a fl 75+ years before Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung...
Or, in the fandom based cinematographic Holmes verse... What about Enola Holmes (2020) with a British female teen of the Holmes family, in the Victorian Britain, IIRC, managing to devel and foil a plot against the Parliament (House of Lores) means to stop the ruling party passing of the Third Reform Act ...
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Interesting. I forgot about that. Still, having few trophies doesn't automatically make you the worst club in football, just not very good. I kind of compare it to college sports in the US. For example, my school, the University of Nebraska had Amazing football until 20 years ago and have been garbage for the past five years, but with basketball they have never won a march madness tournament game and have only appeared seven times. Now just because they haven't won in the big dance doesn't make them terrible. Sure, they are not a good program who falls short, but are more or less average. They are not the worst usually though.
Certified Spurs Moment
In all seriousness though very few of the Premier League’s teams have actually won it. Partially it’s due to the Prem’s relative youth as the English top flight (the winners list becomes a lot bigger if you include the old EFL First Division).
Spurs are a good example — they made it to the Champions League final in 2018/19 (by that virtue you could charitably call them the 2nd best team in Europe) but only finished 4th in the Prem.
There are a lot of good teams that, had the dice rolls been just a bit more favorable, would’ve won silverware.
In Shanghai Knights it was not an unknown lord, but a member of the royal family and in the line of succession (the 10th one?), thus the reason why he planned the mass murder of the Queen and the rest of the members who were above him.
But yeah, that scenario implies the royal family would be afraid of that happening again and probably a "witch-hunt" inside the family. A lot more paranoia in general, as well, thing that could be exploited by outside actors, both inside and outside the country.
Not only that but that lord was also in league with the Boxers. Which makes for a very bizarre alliance considering how fiercely anti-foreign the Boxers were.
I found a mummified Abraham Lincoln in a Confederate Ironclad that's sitting in a dried up African riverbed totally plausible, myself.
I remember seeing a discussion somewhere about the implications of tiny European monarchies all over the continent in so many works of fiction.
A 2007 movie called Flood has a huge storm in the North Sea- Scotland and all along the east coast are devastated. The Storm sends a colossal tidal surge up the Thames overwhelming the Flood Barrier and swamping central London.
What's the after effects of hundreds dead, a major financial centre being knocked out of action, and billions in property damage?
What's the after effects of hundreds dead, a major financial centre being knocked out of action, and billions in property damage?
Global recession, massive investment by the UK into flood prevention, probably more investment into climate change mitigation for major cities, and a likely change in government for the UK as whichever party was in charge at the time is likely to get ousted for letting this happen (even if an act of God this bad is not something anyone could have seriously seen coming).