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Why is the Premiership the Best League in the World
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Why is the Premiership the Best League in the World?
Ever since the breakaway of top clubs from the Football League in February 1992, backed by the lure of TV money, the newly-minted English Premier League has gone from strength to strength, reaching finanical and sporting heights unthought of at the time.
Today, the Premiership is beamed all over the world, to the ostensibly "soccer" hating US to the rabid fanaticism of the Asian market. But just why is the Premiership now seen as the best league in the world?
Well, first of all is the most obvious, in that it is the most exciting, fiercely competitive, technically excellent league in the world. To view English football years ago is to see how those abroad viewed us, namely as teams with a good keeper, a centre half who kicked people and got his nose broken, two animals in the middle of the park and a stocky fella called Micky or John up front who you could lump it up to and hope he`d head it in.
However, and this may have something to do with the influx of foreign players, the standard of the game here is now immensely high, from the sublime passing technique of Cesc Fabregas (which no doubt has the Arsenal news blog nervous about his supposed departure) to the mazy dribbling and bullish goalscoring of Cristiano Ronaldo. Add in the clinical finishing of Fernando Torres and the classy defending of Ricardo Carvalho and you would be hard pressed to argue against the fact that the Premier League possesses arguably some of the most gifted players in the world, bar maybe Kaka, Leo Messi and the two Dutch maestros Van der Vaart and Sneijder, among others. This is to say nothing of our young English players improving by playing with these foreign imports, a residual benefit of foreigners playing here.
Also, it would seem our "big four" have also ascended to an almost monopoly on the knockout stages of the Champions League, with all four almost inexorably in attendance, a further example of how far our football has progressed.
Another reason is our passion, which though sometimes spilling into verbal tribal warfare is always vociferous, noisy and partisan. Other countries do not have an "away-day" tradition, taking little or no fans away, whereas an intrinsic part of going to a football match here involves opposition fans too, adding to the spice of the atmosphere. And basically, we just care a whole lot about our teams, devouring any scrap of news about them and talking about development nigh-on constantly.
Finally, and it has to be said, the "product", that dirty advertising buzzword, is marketed well to the world. The coverage of our league is beamed all over the world, and is sold and marketed in the best possible way, reaching as many fans (or consumers) as possible. Money begets money, as they say, and the apparently credit-crunch-proof Premier League can only go from strength to strength with that type of financial backing.
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