Little victories occasionally, against the country’s top sides. And playing in the top league. I agree we aren’t competing for the title with any expectation of winning it, but at least we’re watching our team playing the best sides. Would you rather be where the skates are?
No, but I’d rather we win more games than we lose, have something to aspire to every season and at the very start of it have hope.
Beating a bigger team now and again is lovely but its small fry in the predictive nature of the league, after 38 games its always the same, its boring.
And this is why, and I’ve mentioned this a number of times, I just don’t really care about football any more.
The structure of US sport works so much better - yes we don’t have a University system but we could have a network of academies for the first two divisions, grade the players and then have drafts. Bottom 2 divisions of the pyramid pick from the remaining players. Still have relegation. Players traded between higher and lower divisions using trades. Wage cap at division level.
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No way will the big clubs go for that, football is simply an advertising tool for the global market, sadly its nothing more than that, everything else is a facade.
I know they won’t, but it’s the only way to offer a level playing field.
Not like the NFL struggles for revenue though does it?
No it doesn’t, the NFL has improved massively since they’ve done it, the issue is the World wants to watch United, Liverpool etc etc every week, its a World League played in England and the by and large the English clubs suffer for that, globalisation.
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I get where @Not_Barry is coming from, let me take my pool league as an analogy (I have mentioned that I play in a pool league before haven’t I?).
We’re in Div 2 of the local league where we do quite well, a couple of years ago we got promoted to the top division, we lost every single game and it wasn’t fun, we were glad to get relegated again.
I can see the allure of winning every week (or most weeks) but what happens if we get promoted again, do we say “No thanks, we want to stay in the lower divisions?”.
Winning is fun, not winning isn’t but that is the fun and pain of being a football supporter.
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For it to be a sport or competition you need to have a chance, we don’t, Sky selling us “the race to 4th spot” is laughable, 380 games in a season and some are superb but before the 380 games start you can tell who’ll be in the top 6 with near certainty, that is a joke and makes a mockery of the jeopardy of sport.
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Really? I give you Leicester City 2015/16
That is what people hold on to who like the premier league, before that? The league was incredibly poor that year, exciting yes but the standard wasn’t nearly as strong as seasons before or after.
Manchester United 13
Manchester City 5
Chelsea 5
Arsenal 3
Blackburn 1
Liverpool 1
Leicester 1
7 teams in the last 29 seasons?
50 Football teams have been in the Premier League.
I’ll ask you to look at the 60’s and the 70’s.
It’s the exception that…etc etc.
Cough
Easy answer
European Super League.
Test of us can have fin then
Its the exception the big clubs love as it means they can say anyone can win it, sure anyone can but do you believe anyone can win it on any given season?
There won’t be another Leicester for 30 years and even then the stars will have to align, their counter attacking over the top quick movement took the league by surprise that year with Mahrez and Vardy.
I’d love the scab 6 to fuck off and do their own thing, see the little telly clappers scream and shout about it, they only use us as cannon fodder to get into Europe.
Yeah I’d go along with that assessment, even looking at the 90’s, Villa, Newcastle, Blackburn, Ipswich, Norwich, Forest all bothering the top six places. Much more diverse set of teams at the top of the table, granted not many different winners but at least other teams were challenging. If you look back on the finishing tables…
https://www.premierleague.com/tables?co=1&se=418&ha=-1
…since the start of the Premier league it all changes around the early 2000’s, where the top 6 places start to become dominated by the big ‘4’. It has certainly become worse in the last 10 years in terms of dominance by the now ‘big 6’*, largely in part I think due to how Man City have changed the way football clubs are run in this country, and also the introduction of FFP which heavily fell in favour of clubs who already had higher turnover/wagebills.
*how spurs have managed to fool the media they are one of the big 6 when they have never won the PL/CL is beyond me.
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What’s still amazing is that despite winning the Premier League they were still picked apart for some of their best players, didn’t Mahrez and Kante leave that same summer?
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What language is this?
Irish Romulan
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Exactly, I was going to post that as well, even if you win you still get punished for winning by having to sell your best players, its a rigged game from the start.
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Blame it on the Boogie
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