What do you think?
Is the English Premier League the best league in the world?
A lot of people think that the English Premier League is the most richest, exciting and most watched league in the world. They may be right in saying that it is the richest and possibly most watched, but when it comes to the most exciting league in the world I tend to disagree.
Yes, ok it has some of the best players in the world playing in it, but that doesn’t mean its the most exciting league in the world. Take the title race as an example. Year in year out we see the same group of teams challenging for the same position in the league table. Each season you will see Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool challenging for the top four positions in the English Premier League. This has to be the dullest scenario to a season ever. We always see the same teams in a relegation battle as well, not that they can help it that is. Now I don’t support a Premier League team, in fact I can’t stand any of them, but I do watch it from time to time, basically because i’m a football fan and its football at the end of the day. So as an unbiased person I can honestly say that there are far more exciting leagues in the world than the English Premier League. You’ve even got lower leagues in England that are more exciting. I support Grimsby Town, they play in League Two. Not all games are pretty, but thats not expected at that level, however each game is exciting and each game is unpredictable, unlike the English Premier League where when a top team plays a lower team you can guess the outcome and 99% of the time it happens. Not in League Two, a top of the table team could play the bottom of the table team and get thrashed. Other leagues such as the La Liga or Serie A are similar to League Two.
I’m not saying there aren’t exciting games in the English Premier League, i’m just trying to point out that the people who say it is the most exciting league in the world need to wake up and smell the coffee. Oh and the FA need to cut the number of foreign players playing in England down as well, but I won’t go into that, i’ll leave it for another day.
January 27th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
i think every league in every country has some teams which are s lot stronger wthan others. so, it’s very natural if only few teams have bigger chance to win the league. epl is a tough league and only the strong can survive here. unfortunately, team’s financial condition is the key factor for a team to be big and strong. not every team is rich enough to build a good team. so, it’s natural to see few teams domintaing the league.