You could almost believe a model Championship club, solid, steady, careful Blackburn Rovers, are coming to play Sheikh Mansour's £1bn City project, if you mentally will away, as some at Rovers seem to do, the chaos of the first three years under the club's ownership by Venky's, the chicken company from Pune in India.
Under the new model, the championship game would be played on a rotating basis at one of the major bowls -- the Rose, the Sugar, the Orange and the Fiesta.
In 1979 and 1980, he won the WIR late model track championships.
In the other model, the Bowl Championship Series games would be played and then teams would be ranked, with the No. 1 and No. 2 teams playing one final game.
Personally I feel the right way forward may be an adaptation of the English model, where full Championship programs are scheduled on international weekends to take revenue advantage of no Premiership games taking place, but the few teams with more than two players called up for international duty are given the option of postponing their game.
Fowler has been the model of recent major championship consistency and was many people's tip to claim this event.
It's like he favors the Bowl Championship Series model for politics.
Later national leagues overseas followed the British model, which included league championships, at least one annual cup competition, and a hierarchy of leagues that sent clubs finishing highest in the tables (standings) up to the next higher division (promotion) and clubs at the bottom down to the next lower division (relegation).
Mike Slive, the Southeastern Conference commissioner, presented his Plus One model, which uses the Bowl Championship Series standings to create a playoff among the top four teams.
Few football followers will shed a tear about that, particularly as Burnley and Middlesbrough, coming up from the Championship, are both models of steady and sensible ownership.
One idea is that television acts as a role model, so watching the European Championships may inspire children to try to emulate the likes of Wayne Rooney in the playground.
