The Premier League is very overated, judging by the 14/15 season.
Spurs are a poor side this year, yet we are 6th. Liverpool are another poor side, and they are 5th. Both sides were found out in Europe........
Chelsea are hands down the best team in the country, but in Europe they were dumped out by a good, but not great PSG side, who were in turn soundly beaten in the next round.
Teams as woeful as Newcastle and Sunderland will probably survive.
The quality is really poor at the moment. How many genuinely world class players are their in this league? For the purpose of this discussion, how many would get into the top 20 players list In the world in your opinion? maybe 4? Hazard, Aguero (maybe), De Gea, Courtois? I suppose Di Maria but not on this season's showing.
Probably borderline if you go further than that, even some of the above may not be in it if you consider the players Bayern Barca and Real have.
The normal line from the media is that the quality may not be there, but the premier league is the most exciting league in the world.
Maybe in the past, but not this season. The most boring title race I can remember for a while, with one team in it virtually all season. The race for top 4 looked lively for a while with 6 teams going for 3 spots., and despite shakey spells for both city and united, neither spurs Liverpool nor Southampton have had the quality to capitalise.
The relegation battle again looked lively, but then QPR are just a joke, and Burnley didn't have the quality to take it to the end, so a defeat for Hull at WHL this weekend (unlikely), and that could all be done and dusted before the final day too.....
what a poor season for the premier league.
What have been your thoughts on this season as a whole (not just on your club's performance)?
Admins please multiboard.
A Poor Season for the Premier League?
posted on 13/5/15
This is simple. Our league being the "Best" has nothing to do with having the best teams. With the exception of The Arsenal/Utd rivaly days, we've rarely had the best team in talent and quality terms, in the English league. They've always been in Italy and Spain.
However the number of teams and gradual decline n quality from top to bottom (as opposed to the massive gulf between Real/Barca and rest of La Liga). Makes our league the most competitive and entertaining to watch. It's the most MARKETABLE league of all which is why it has been tagged the "Best" Money runs the game now so the league deemed the best is the one that makes the most money, not the one that actually has the best teams and players.
posted on 13/5/15
yeah but its been a total snoozefest this season
posted on 13/5/15
Our league may be the most competitive but its not the best the football is regularly dire no matter who you watch.
Very over rated its all media hype nothing else The CL is the same. The group games are normally a total bore and there might be about 6 games in the CL that would interest a neutral.
Its all part of the media doing their best to get the money out of your pocket and so many fans repeat the "this is the best league in the world" catchphrase.
Lets face it 99% of the excitement is our fanatasiscm over our own club and the excitement (and worry lol) thats gives us.
How many Spurs fans get excited when Stoke are playing Hull? None. The same as Stoke and Hull fans dont get excited when Spurs are playing Sunderland.
Spurs are 6th and we have been poor for most of the season. Pool are no better. A weak overated league with most of the players being extremely overated and drastically over paid.
posted on 13/5/15
Someone asked yesterday why it was that the PL threw up so many more surprises than La Liga.
On the one hand, there's the issue of perceptions and what is or what isn't an upset.
Most people who only follow from a distance, check little other than the results and scorlines of Spain's big 2. People don't pay much attention to what any other of the top 6 do and, therefore, don't mentally chalk down their defeats as upsets.
When you look at your own league though, a defeat to a lower table side for any of the top 6 gets noticed. It registers mentally as an upset.
Therefore, people are unconsciously taking completely different sample sizes that heavily skew their perception.
Secondly, even the perception regarding the big 2 isn't as true as it seems. Bar the Mourinho vs Pep seasons, if you took each league's top 2 since the turn of the century you'd find Spain's big 2 have actually lost more games than England's top 2. Even when you factor in the Pep/JM years the figures are remarkably similar.
What you will find is that they draw a far lower number of games. This might suggest that Spain's big 2 are less risk averse, less likely to sit on a lead to try and see it out, and are more likely to continue to push to score more goals. That would also -at least in part- help to explain the hefty goal differences.
posted on 13/5/15
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posted on 13/5/15
comment by #4zA (U19575)
posted 40 minutes ago
well said ioag
i have been arguing that perceptions seem to be skewed and in reality, the various leagues are very similar in reality
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Totally agree. I think most of us tend to exaggerate the differences one way or the other to support a certain view, but if any one league was so vastly superior as people like to make out you'd have far greater domination in Europe imo.
posted on 13/5/15
Falcao flopped in this league.
posted on 15/5/15
Grandspur
Well said.
Although Spurs are still going to be finishing better than average.
posted on 15/5/15
spurs are a poor side but are consistently one of the best in the country.
posted on 19/5/15
spurs are a poor side but are consistently one of the best in the country.
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Which totally vindicates what I said 3 months ago when you called me a clown for saying it