The pursuit of the EPL?

you know i actually agree 100% with your concept of the EPL, and its really really overrated here especially in america

 

96%, eh? My calculations put it at 93.8%. What are you fudging?

And may I express my sincere regret that the Mods took the lamentable decision to issue you a Red Card. If contributions of the quality don't have a lasting value to Bigsoccer, then nothing has. May you reincarnate as some suitably silly sock speedily and without hindrance.

 

Ok, so a crappy league that arguably has the best record in European club competition..ok...

I think without sugar daddies, English teams could still compete. In the history of the Premier League the teams with sugar daddies that have been successful are Blackburn and Chelsea. I suppose Chelsea was a big club before but Blackburn weren't. Even still, at both clubs they won the league after a sugar daddy came along, which is really the only way a smaller club can be successful nowadays. Other successful Premier League teams like Man U and Arsenal haven't relied as much on sugar daddies, and probably don't really need to.

And the EPL is predictable? LOL! How many teams in recent times OTHER than Real Madrid or Barca have won La Liga? What about Serie A? I bet most Scudettos have been won by Juventus or the Milan clubs in the past few decades. Look at France and Lyon, or Scotland and the Old Firm, the Netherlands and its Big Three, Germany and Bayern Munich and you would also see predictablitily.

 

apart from arsenal, the EPL is all about kicking and running as hard as you can. then theres chelsea, man u, and liverpool; which kick and run as hard as they can, as like the other 16 teams in the EPL. the only difference is that chelsea, man u, and liverpool do it more effeciently

 

I'm amused by the idea that football in countries other than England involves neither kicking nor running ...

 

thats all they do in england though, in other countries they actually make the game fun and likeable

 

Ah yes, the almighty Peruvian League .

You sure you weren't watching nothing but Wimbledon sides in the 90s?

 

since when is the peruvian league one of the best in the world? i'm comparing it with la liga, serie a, and even the eredivise.

 

HAHAHAHAHA!

For one, you missed the "".

And congratulations for making quite possibly, the most retarded statement in regards to leagues. The Eredivisie? Seriously?

 

yea, but they play entertaining soccer, which is what attracts the people if your english your not gonna watch chelsea, man u, liverpool, arsenal, and maybe man c. then you might as well watch a horse raise.

 

I fid it amusing the "stereotypical" view of the English game. I will leave the idiots with one point, if its constantly long ball, long ball, long ball then why did:

Chelsea 1 - Man Utd 1 - no goals from long balls

WBA 1 - Villa 2 - One goal from long ball

Man City 6 - Pompey 0 - 0 long ball goals

Hull 2 - Everton 2 - 0 long balls goals

boton 1 - Arsenal 3 - 0 long ball goals

Sunderland 2 - Boro 0 - 0 long ball goals

Liverpool 0 - Stoke 0 - 0 goals

Blackburn 1 - Fulham 0 - 0 goals from long balls

West Ham 3 - Newcastle 1 - 0 goals from long balls

Total goals this weekend 26 goals from long balls = 1

Approximately 4% of the premier leagues goals came from long balls, now could this just a be a freakish weekend of action or could it be that you are talking out your backside and clear have an agenda agaisnt English football.

 

To be honest, I think people just watched too much Wimbledon FC matches back in the 90s.

 

A game doesn't only consist of the few seconds it takes to score a goal.

 

So lets take the Liverpool stoke game as an example...80% possession and not 1 long ball played all game by GK or any of Liverpool's defenders.

Yes the lesser teams do play a more direct style, but even then, they dont play the typical long ball game.

 

And it ended in a 0-0 draw. Yey.

 

So the Aussie league or Eredivisie would be your favourite then...just because of their lack of any defensive skills and averages of over 3 goals per game.

Goals arent the requirement for playing football...its actually watching teams play football at both ends of the pitch...not just watching a bunch of fairly skilled forwards taking on school-boy defenders, as we see in Holland.

 

Oh...btw did you watch Juventus' first CL group game...that was exciting!

No combination passing at all...just get it to Del Piero as quick as possible and watch him do something good once out of 10 attempts. Or maybe just rely on set-pieces because that squad cant put together 10 meaningful passes.

 

Yeah I did. And we were terrible. Atleast we scored, against a much better team then Stoke I might add. I can actually picture Liverpool going 50 years before they win another League Title. Maybe 100.

 

Have fun...come back to me when we win it.

 

I would but I don't expect to live more then about 40-50 more years so it won't happen.

 

Anyone who says that Serie A is exciting in comparison to the EPL is talking rubbish. And anyone who thinks that the standard of football in Holland is more entertaining than the EPL is simply a liar and anave.

I used to watch Serie A every bleeding week simply because it was a football game but exciting is not the word I'd use to describe it. The Italian game is, by it's very nature, defensive. They invented Catenaccio and have solidly applied it every year since. The only side who are worth watching are Roma and that's because Spaletti enjoys going forward. Juventus used to be good to watch with Zidane and Del Piero but now they're boring again. Inter, despite having rolled the leaguem over 2 years running now, got spanked by Liverpool last year. I have yet to see their star players blow me away.

Opinion is something everyone is entitled to, but don't shovel sh*t and expect people to buy it.

 

Yeah, but we all know your track record on predictions regarding Liverpool, right?

Face it, kiddo you do not have, nor have you ever had, a clue.

 

By the referee you mean. With a neutral ref Inter would probably have gone through. And please don't talk about star players. Take away Gerrard and Torres and Liverpool have nothing.

 

Well, we didnt have Gerrard and Torres and we beat the best team in Europe...seems like Matt is right...you have no clue whatsoever...you are absolutely useless to this forum.