My 5 reasons are: 1. Too many British players 2. Exaggerated quality of teams 3. The money associated with winning is more important than the actual winning 4. Long ball dressed as direct and exciting 5. Regurgitated rubbish spouted from the media with no intelligent or interesting thought
How about: 1. Too many plastics 2. Obscene ticket prices making the game unaffordable for the average supporter 3. Obscene pricing to watch the games on TV 4. The media pundits are dreadful. Lower profile personalities in championship or league one take the time to analyze the game. 5. Some referees seeking the limelight
1st post in a blaze of inglory. We've peeked and have nothing to look forward to now! Before I get slated hear me out. This time last year I was out with an actual manc man u fan and a mackem. I was delighted that the man u fan had said we were great at their place and we should have beaten them, good praise from a season ticket holder of a team that has won the premier league several times. The mackem then came in with "and thats great but the prem is xxxx" i asked why and basically he said where is the fun in each season where the goal is not to be relegated, you have no chance of winning the league and its unlikely you'll when a cup. Until then I'd never looked at it that way but it rang home this season when people have been talking about resting players in the cup for the league. I know in 20 years time I'll remember a cup cup run to Wembley over a finish of 15th in prem over 13th if we had rested more players. Footy is about excitement and winning things at present we have little chance of doing that in any competition, the excitement of the premiere league was in the chase of getting there, not securing draws at Southampton and Reading to try and do it again next year. Don't get me wrong living in the north east I'm loving being a premiere league club to rub it in to middlesbriugh fans and to have banter with Newcastle and Sunderland fans but from my perspective a lot of the lure of the prem was trying to get there! Christov.
Hi Christov. Welcome onboard. I had a similar chat when we were in the Championship. Argued that supporting our team was more entertaining than the experience of the Villa fan that I was speaking to. Simply because we had more highs and lows to experience than a team (then) that was a mid-table certainty.
If you don't experience a low you can't appreciate the high L1 was more fun than the PL but I think I get more satisfaction from watching our guys put thier skills against the best, can't understand the mindset of a Manc fan if you always expect to win all there can be is disappointment Being a Norwich fan I accept we will always float around the drop zone but remember the buzz when we got into Europe and dream that one day we might sneak that again
Getting promoted is a far more exhilarating feeling than staying in the Premiership, by a long, long way. What I hate is people trying to tell me how great it is by people who have a vested interest in its success. The trouble is, those who have this vested interest are judging it on those Champions League teams. The Premier League is not this amazing quality of football, with the amount of money available to these teams (including us) which dwarfs many of the foreign leagues, we, and the rest should be much, much better footballing sides. It might be exciting to watch but outside those top 4 teams the standard is very bad value for money in terms of the players and the style of play. It's always the easier option in this country.
Dissenting view. In the old days, the big teams still dominated by having far more money. I like the PL because every match is streamed on-line and the squad can be improved without having to go into debt.
The plastic fans of big clubs really miss out. It's like playing a computer game and choosing the easy level. Yeah it's great to win but after a while it gets boring, there's no challenge. I like the surprise of beating Arsenal and Man United. The odd defeat to West Brom or someone similar is fine.
Teams still go into debt, just look at Everton. It's just they avoid administration, unless your Portsmouth who managed it in the Premier League.
Teams still go into debt, just look at Everton. It's just they avoid administration, unless your Portsmouth who managed it in the Premier League.
The worst thing, to me, about the Premier League is the influx of foreign players. How bloody pathetic is it to say "We walked the league this year", with 20-25 foreigners in the squad. It bears no relationship to football as it should be at all. The big teams were always the big teams is more or less true but at least the big teams bought British players off the not so big or small clubs. Now, the big news is about a Dutchman leaving a London club full of foreigners and making the difference to a Manchester team, full of foreigners.
If it wasn't for the foreigners the Premiership would be a more expensive version of Scottish football. British players are stupidly paid for carrying water.
Who cares what it would be. I don't give two monkeys about European competitions or World Cups. Domestic football is all that counts and it would find its own level of mediocrity or excellence.
1. The acceptance of racism, sexism and homophobia still inherent. 2. The handful of footballers who believe that their celebrity status entitles them to treat those around them like rubbish. 3. The abuse of managers and referees egged on by the media. 4. The way young fans are put off live football by excessively expensive tickets and other items associated with the matchday experience 5. The bias of referees towards the richer and more successful clubs.
The way the national media love pointless articles about the top clubs every day, it's boring Ridiculous wages that lead to an uneven playing field - this is not sustainable and is also killing non and lower league footy
I find this opinion quite strange. You would rather see a low level of football with British only players because thats what the important thing is. Why does having foreign players bother you so? If your not bothered about European football etc then why does it matter about foreigners representing British clubs. See, if you'd said that Man U et al should have British players in Europe because they are representing Englands entry then I'd understand yo're point. But just wanting British players because you just want to see familiar names on the backs of there shirts and to hell with the standard of football seems a silly reason to deny a pleasure in watching decent football. I'm sure you must have a better reason than that.
Nope. You suggest that anything lower than the foreign dominated Prem an d possibly Championship is not worth watching. You demean all football and its supporters with that attitude.
The people who regularly watch live foootball of the lower leagues do so because there teams play in it. And they don't watch it because its British only players, just as I don't turn the TV off if theres no foreign stars on show. Those teams in the lower leagues really have no choice in who they buy, there is a big diffrence. I still can't ascertain your reasonings for wanting sub standard British players just for the fact they are British unless theres just some blatant xenophobia going on. My reason for wanting foreign players is because they are alot more interesting to watch, be that mid table, top of the table or bottom. Why do you care if they are British players, what difference does it make?
