Premier league

Does anyone actually enjoy it?

maybe I’m getting old and cynical but I used to love MOTD but now I’ve pretty much got no idea who plays for who now and don’t find it exciting in the slightest.

It’s had every little last drop of life sucked out of it imho. It’s so ‘vanilla’ as they say: no characters, no oomph, predictable and not particularly competitive.

I genuinely find the championship and league one more enjoyable to watch.

 

Hate the Greed League and all it stands for

 

Yep I’ve disliked what it stands for for ages, but still enjoyed watching it. but genuinely have no interest in watching it now. Thought I’d never say that. As I say, maybe I’m just getting old!

 

Last time I watched Football focus Dan Walker was host.

I couldn't tell you last time I watched MOTD.

And don't have Sky sports.

The greed league in deed. Same usual teams in top 4/6 year after year. No level playing field.

In the 31 years of the Premier league there have been only 7 winners. Blackburn Rovers and the Jack Walker money, Arsenal Chelsea Manchester United Manchester City and Liverpool with the one freak season when Leicester city won it.

Saudi money and over spending and VAR and parachute payments and extortionate wages.

Not for me.

 

Not watched MOTD all year - highlights are up 15 minutes after the games so watch them in the Sky app.

Premier league has been too predictable last few years - City hit top form around January then hardly drop a point to win the league. They'll probably go a goal behind on Sunday to add a little drama to the proceedings only to come back and win 4-1!

 

I’m not even sure I like football half the time.

Certainly I think the money in the Premier League is obscene, many of the club owners reprehensible, and the winners of most things either undeserving or wholly irrelevant.

I think perhaps I missed out on the 70s and 80s eras when it likely meant more. Fortunately I was there to see some of Barnsley’s attacking sides of the 90s and early 2000s.

 

I really enjoy watching Arsenal play. I think they are the most exciting team in the league by some way and unlike Citeh don’t have to cheat in a 115 different ways to win.

I enjoy manure being crap and their ‘fans’ having meltdowns

I can leave the rest.

 

I've always said Championship is the best league - and I still think it, by a mile!

I will say, however, eventually it looks like it's going to turn into a mini-premier league with the money. How can a club have a 35 million quid player when they play in the second division of a nation? Fortunately, Luton being promoted made us all hope again. But I can only see it getting worse over the next few years, eventually, every year it'll the 3 who go down, go straight back up. Parachute payments are a joke in this day & age.

 

You do realise it's not the actual players who have 'cheated', don't you bud? What those players as a squad of athletes have done is nothing short of exceptional over the past few years. Money spent is all relative, Manchester United spending 29,999 on Tommy Taylor so he doesn't have the pressure of being a 30k player is no different to spending tens & tens of millions on current players. No doubt the money is obscene these days but to pretend is new is just wrong, unfortunately it's trickling down the leagues and having an impact on smaller clubs, like us.

 

Cheating the system with blood money is still cheating the system. It’s very easy to punish Everton and Forest. City only have the ability to have a 100 million quid sub because they cheated for 6/7/8 years. They can afford the best lawyers in the world so they delay and delay and may even buy their way out. But yea they have won by cheating. All the titles are tainted and it wouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility to see all those titles removed.

Nothing against individual players. As a person someone like Jack Grealish is the very best of human beings. Someone like KDB or Stines are he best players in their position on the league but they only play for City because city cheated.

As Brian Clough once said to dirty Leeds throw all those medals away you won them by cheating.

 

Look at the majority of Europe's top leagues and who generally finishes first.

Ligue 1 France

PSG

La Liga Spain

Real Madrid
Barcelona

Bundesliga Germany

Bayern.Munich

Series A Italy

Juventus
Inter Milan


How boring has it all become and all down to money.


You do realise they (the corrupt UEFA/FIFA) will keep trying to push for some sort of European super league one day.

 

My interest in it is largely a consequence of playing various FPL leagues with mates. I'm more interested in the individual player performances than the increasingly predictable outcome of the league.

VAR has made it virtually unwatchable as a casual supporter.

 

Lost interest in football outside of Barnsley FC many years ago, Especially premier league. I very rarely watch another game or MOTD. And only watch EFL highlights when we win.
I'd rather watch emmerdale than games in the greed league, in fact. make that Songs of praise.over the top 6 any day.

 

Luton, Burnley & Sheff United have 14 wins between them. I wonder if they’ve enjoyed it as much as they did getting promoted?

 

The Prem is **** to watch. VAR and money has spoilt it. Used to have Sky and BT and watch football every night. Once I’ve started with family life, I make more of my time on a Saturday watching Barnsley and enjoy the other six days focusing on my job and life at home. At the same time, wouldn’t mind us getting there….

 

I say this to my Barnsley/Liverpool/Villa supporting mate all the time. He tells me it's cos I "hate" Liverpool. Well I have more of a dislike towards Man Utd in truth. Others say it's because Barnsley don't compete in it, or you must've hated it in 97 then.

It's the Entity. The money obsessed monster that is the PL that I hate

 

The equivalent of Tommy Taylor’s fee when Man U bought him was not much more than a million quid in today’s money

 

I dip in and out of MOTD now and again but other than the odd success story villa this season, Newcastle last season its mundane, boring and predictable.
Many fans of clubs in the PL feel the same way, Sheff utd, Leeds amongst others haven't been overly bothered about relegation

 

True that. The 2004 Leeds relegation from the Premier League and 2006 relegation from the Championship the fans were in mourning over. Same with Sheff Utd and Tevez scandal. However, since then it's been all about getting back. The defeat to Derby in the Play-Offs hurt them more than relegation. It's called apathy. The money is taking football away from the ordinary punters and making ordinary jobbing footballers celebrities.

That's creeping into the lower reaches now though. You can play to an o.k standard in League 1 or 2 and retire a millionaire or get set on as a pundit.

 

Must be an age thing mate, like you and Cheftyke I hardly watch it. First full game I saw was 5 weeks ago because daughter's blokes a Man U fan and he asked me if I wanted to go round..dint kno 90% of players on either side of this boring cheatfest.
Gimmee Irish bar then down to Oakwell any day. Recently went to Harrogate town. lvly day out nice little club. The Bradford goalie even had a chat with the home fans during a break in play..classic