I can’t stand the premier league

I take your points Django. Personally I find it boring. Football has always had clubs that were big and for a few years clubs would dominate but it was cyclical. That seems to be disappearing. Teams of the size if Villa, Leeds, Wolves, Newcastle others like Forest, Ipswich, West Brom, Everton are never likely to rise to the top again unless they happen to get huge inputs if cash.
It may not be everyone's view but it's mine.

 

Three or four - not at all. A whole team of Udinese loanees, like at Watford a few years back? No thanks.

 

Technically? Probably. Excitement and integrity wise? I don't think it would. When I first started watching football, some of the showpiece games were off the scale for excitement.

Coventry v Spurs 1987, plus the semis that year were brilliant.

Arsenal v Luton 1988 Littlewoods Cup final.

The FA Cup semis and final in 1991 (possibly), when Palace beat Liverpool 4-3, and Man Utd beat Oldham after a replay.

Arsenal clinching the league title in the last minute at Anfield. The list is endless.

Talking of which, the Premier League has absolutely wrecked the FA Cup. Is that partly down to the number of foreigners who don't understand its traditions? Possibly.

As for the relative strength of the league overall, I'd say the dominance of English clubs in Europe before the ban suggests that the league was still of an except quality before the influx of overseas players.

 

My issue with The Premier League is the predictability of it all.
Before a ball is kicked, you kind of already know who the top 5 and bottom 5 will be, it's just a case of which order will they finish in. Which then leaves teams, such as Everton, who are just basically there to make the numbers up.

That's why I do like The Championship. Anything could happen. Norwich and Sheff Utd for automatic promotion, who'd have thought it. And what Wilder has achieved has me thinking he's not really streets ahead of Stendel, so the bookies will no doubt have us to be relegation favourites, I think we will be safely mid-table (I kind of went off topic there, didn't I, sorry)

 

Personally I think premier league is the best league in the world, incredible football I don’t know how people can think it’s boring... the day Barnsley get back there il be absolutely ecstatic!

 

There aren’t even close to enough English players these days to make up a premier league of any sort of quality.

As evidenced by the fact that the entire World Cup squad was from the Premier League.

Do you really think the PL should impose rules that would lower the quality of the league, lower revenue and just all together make the league worse?

And to gain what? A bit of National Identity?