How far removed from reality will be premiership become, in 5 years?.

[who me?]

the premier league is full of talentless donkeys,overated,over hyped,overpaid and overtrained run all day merchants.

the premier league wannabees of the championship are no better,did anyone else watch the boro/shef utd fiasco last week?

all the crap foreign prem league imports that failed to make the grade are just working their way through lower league money

 

[blue'n'white]

I can't stand the way that football didn't exist before the Premiership, according to Sky.

The way they dish out awards to players for scoring the most ever Premier League goals, for example. Which basically means they have scored the most between 1991 (?) and 2007. Big bloody deal, do they give out one for hitting the target the most times between, say, 1932 and 1954, war break not included? Why not 1970 to 1981, perhaps?

By the same logic that dictates football was non-existent before the Premier League, then Liverpool have never won the title.

Which I'm sure they would be a bit miffed about...yet they go along with the myth, because they're only interested in the money. Imagine a Liverpool player in 1985 telling the club's fans that he was desparate to finish FOURTH? What do you win for fourth, that the fans care about at least?

That's another thing - 4th so you can get into the Champions League.
Now hold on - the word "Champion" should mean the ONE above all others. So how come we now have FOUR teams in this league ? Bring back the European Cup and dispense with this bloody Champions League makeover. I always used to like seeing the old results where some Hungarian side got mullered 10-0 by Man Utd or Real Madrid. The Champions League is just yet another excuse to print money. The European Cup should be a knock out cup with no seeding in it whatsoever - if Man Utd meet Barcelona in the first round well that's just the luck of the draw isn't it. Having a league system in place is merely so that if one of the "big" teams has a wobbly game early on they have a chance to get back inone of the other games in that group - oh and to make money of course

 

[Wozza]

It is in the English football calender after F.A Cup final day. What else is bigger?? The only other occasion I can see which rivals it is Grand Slam Sunday.

Well there's the Championship play-off, for starters.

I'd say the majority of fans are more interested in the final day of the season (their season). And the first.

Oh, and the third round of the FA Cup too.

A small handful of Premier League days/weekends can be considered important/watchable - when the top sides clash, that is. Most of it is dull, predictable shite.

But the final of the Rumbelows Cup, or whatever it's called this week? Not on my radar, frankly.

 

[clapham_gull]

It is in the English football calender after F.A Cup final day. What else is bigger?? The only other occasion I can see which rivals it is Grand Slam Sunday.

Oh dear, sorry no offense but the use of the term "Grand Slam Sunday" says everything about the way it has gone.

It's basically the "armchair cup" isn't it ?

The championship playoff final is now the biggest prize.

.. and I totally agree about the "Champions League". Most of the teams in there aren't Champions and the league system takes away all the "romance" of a PROPER cup competition.

Imagine if someone had said you'd be getting meaningless mid week televised European matches a few years ago.

 

[surrey jim]

when the big boys get their way and launch live games on club websites(rather than sign a sky contract)the rest of the premier league will go cap in hand back to the football league. they will still mop up most of the t.v. revenue(the greedy never learn)

globalism will become a fact with clubs more interested in web based revenues,even pennies from 100 million chinese fans will give a bigger income than a 75000 stadium

sky money will be on offer only to the european super league and mugs will still pay it

i can see that happening too, football clubs brokering their own deals for tv rights and cutting sky out of the equasion,, we already have MUTV LTV. chelsea TV

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

That's another thing - 4th so you can get into the Champions League.
Now hold on - the word "Champion" should mean the ONE above all others. So how come we now have FOUR teams in this league ? Bring back the European Cup and dispense with this bloody Champions League makeover. I always used to like seeing the old results where some Hungarian side got mullered 10-0 by Man Utd or Real Madrid. The Champions League is just yet another excuse to print money. The European Cup should be a knock out cup with no seeding in it whatsoever - if Man Utd meet Barcelona in the first round well that's just the luck of the draw isn't it. Having a league system in place is merely so that if one of the "big" teams has a wobbly game early on they have a chance to get back inone of the other games in that group - oh and to make money of course

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They should bring back Cup winners cup as well, and stop the stupid drop down system from Champions league to the UEFA.

 

[FamilyGuy]

The Premier League is getting so lame.The top four clubs with there bottomless pockets and childish antics have ruined it for me.The better football is in the Leagues below.League One where any of the 24 clubs can beat anyone else on any given day and the Conference League with Lewes and Eastbourne have been better than Brighton at times.

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[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

Crodonilson in getting rinsed shocker!

 

[The Spanish]

One of the problems for me (setting aside the SKy bullshit and hype for a second) is on a playing level.

The histrionics, the fact that everyone seems to blame the officials for a defeat before any lack of ability or mistakes committed by the team (ref blaming is a constant in football, but it has become an obsession in the last few years), the timewasting and gamesmanship that we now see filtering down to league one level (and way way beyond) that previously was not a characteristic of the lower tiers.

Add the retreat from football being a contact sport that seems ongoing, with tackling (one of the things that used to make lower league football a decent substitute for top flight stuff) out of favour completely, and the experience of matchdays being ruined or sanitised for all but the most faint hearted, and it is f***ed.

I look back to Milan turning over Barcelona in the European Cup final, people thimnking how amazing it was that Rush, Ince, Platt, gazza etc went to play in Italy, the amazement at Italian ticket prices in the early nineties, and basically how jealous English football was of that set up that was bankrolled by credit and exhorbitant ticket prices. That didnt last forever.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I cancelled my Sky Sports subscription recently because f***ing Spurs were on EVERY week and how thoroughly depressing it is watching that ridiculous shower pointlessly flidding about whilst their idiot fans sing "We are Tottenham" reeeaaaallllyyyy ssssssslllloooooowwwwwlllllyyyyyy

I will not re-subscribe until Brighton are on every week and I can sit at home proud that our fans dont know the words to GOSBTS and therefore fill in the words with La La la La La La La...Incidentally the Wales fans do the same to the tune of "Men of Harlech" which is equally sad.

 

[Uter]

Not denying the quality on offer but when the bubble bursts, and it will, it will be an almighty bang. The Premiership doesn't really excite me any more, it is rare that I make it past the first couple of games on MOTD...to be honest I usually fall asleep!

If the bubble was going to burst then now, with the recent TV rights auctions coinciding with a large global economic downturn, could arguably be as likely as any time for it to happen. But despite this the Premiership actually increased, albeit marginally, their TV income.

The truth is Sky needs the Premiership at the moment as much as the Premiership needs them. I can't see anything upsetting this mutually parasitic relationship in the near future, so saying it will burst might be wishful thinking.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Where will it be in 5 years?

February 2014.


reeeey!

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

February 2014.


reeeey!

2013 actually... the original post was made in 2008

 

[strings]

In 5 years time, I really hope they introduce added time multi-ball and Monster trucks at half time (beats Andy Gray!) à la the Budweiser adverts from a couple of years ago. Otherwise I won't waste my time watching.

 

[Simster]

with the fork stuck in. football is well and truly done.

On the positive side, at least the riches of the Premiership f***ed up Leeds.

As well as the St Johns ambulance and an array of Yorkshire businesses obviously.

 

[crodonilson]

Crodonilson in getting rinsed shocker!

Why did you bring this up??

One year on from the original post and the PL is stronger than ever having just signed a lucrative new deal with Sky and Setanta.

What is everyones problem with the PL?? It's the best league in the world so we should be proud that it is in England and embrace it.

If I want to watch the best quality sportsmen take on each other in any other sport that's ok, but because I do that by enjoying the thrills and spills of PL football??

 

[The Spanish]

I think you get a hard time on this one mate. As wanky as the premier league is, people forget how quickly (Hull being this seasons example) people pull up the drawbridge when they get there, who have previously claimed themselves as 'real' clubs.

I would say in a slight defence of you that its the Soccer AM isation of football that people hate as much as the premier league, as much as the woosh take a bow son Sky bullshit. Me included. You have to ask yourself if you really hate money in the game or do you hate the post Euro 96 cntishness that reaches an apex in the Premier League. Easy easy easy!

 

[champion7]

And to answer the question: Isn't it already so far removed from reality already?

Is the correct answer.

 

[king Wombat]

not really interested in the premier league any more to be honest. final straw for me was the 39th game rubbish that would have gone through last year if they'd had their way.

 

[portslade seagull]

Most players ( English ones ) are over paid prima donna's who think they are much better than they actually are of ever will be....the premier league needs to set a wages cap on the % of income but that will never happen...there saving grace is the Sky tv money which without many would simply cease to exist...