Nobody has a high points tally sure. Arsenal are tracking 86 points at present. That wouldnât have gotten within an arses roar of winning a league in 2018-19.
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Yea they spent half a billion on top of a title winning squad. Itâs one of the greatest sporting underperformances of all time when you take everything into context size of the club etc. thatâs genuinely all wumming aside.
Itâs even worse if you say the league is a terrible standard.
Surely nobody on here watches
More than 10 - 15 percent of premier league games that take place.
How could you possibly have a clue how good a league it is?
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Arsenal destroyed Bayern Munich, Liverpool destroyed Real Madrid and Chelsea destroyed Barcelona.
A bit simplistic but probably shows how good the EPL is the strongest itâs ever been.
Maybe Liverpool are better than last year, itâs hard to believe they spent 700 million and didnât improve.
Whatâs most likely this is just a much stronger league than last seasons.
Ah youâd see them all playing against your team x2. Anyone with a passing interest would watch the highlights too. Itâs the same in literally any sport in the world except most arenât as accessible. Youâre not going to see every game in the All-Ireland championships but will still have an opinion on the quality. Same as regards the local club championship, Champions Cup, NFL etc.
The Premier League peaked in 2018/9 when Liverpool and Man City both exceeded 96 points, EPL teams contested both the CL and Europa Final and the only English team to be eliminated from the CL by a foreign team were Coach Oleâs tricky Red Devils. Closely followed by 2024/5 where 2 relegation battling EPL teams contested the Europa League Final with Tottenham Hotspur prevailing
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Football in general is going through an across the board lowering of standards.
With the exception of the Qatari-owned PSG thereâs no outstanding continental team.
I tend to think thereâs quite a lot to the theory - which I have advanced several times before here and which was echoed by the (perhaps hard right) Hungarian football writer Istvan Beregi that football coaching is going through a great blandening and most of the managers out there are absolute bullshitters who speak entirely through the medium of empty corporate communication and have neither the knowledge nor the cojones to manage big clubs.
It explains how when somebody who clearly does have the cojones - Martin OâNeill - comes in he makes a sudden massive difference.
Players have become paralysed by all the information theyâre expected to take on board and probably even more paralysed by the personalities of these spoofers.
Luis Enrique obviously knows his onions football wise but itâs his standing as a top player and most of all his personality (that face!) and his ability to lead men that has turned Ousmane Dembele into a world beater and turned his team into the best in Europe by miles.
These new fangled spoofers donât have any of that.
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Like, look at these managers.
Mikel Arteta looks like Lego man and he speaks like Johnny Infantino.
Thomas Frank speaks like a Danish politician telling us Trump is an ally and he looks forward to continuing a mature alliance.
Liam Rosenior is like an AI chatbot. Man Age.
Arne Slot is like an over the hill Dutch darts player desperately trying and failing to recapture his glory days.
Eddie Howe is Jake Humphrey.
Enzo Maresca is Mr. Misery and looks like Guardiolaâs uglier brother.
Amorim looks like the bass player in a manufactured boy band who formed in 2002 and were designed to be slightly edgy because they played instruments, and now theyâre in their 40s.
Hurzeler looks like the spokesman for a German far right party who has been seen hanging out with Elon Musk in America.
Nagelsmann looks like somebody out of the Limmy âsmart casualâ sketch. Actually they all do apart from maybe Slot.
Carrick actually stands a good chance of coming in and winning the league purely because he looks old school in comparison - heâs unobtrusively handsome in a manly way, doesnât do fake smiles, has a good snarl on his face like lads in their late teens of my vintage used to wear at Dublin bus stops, and seems to dress well and has a decent hairline, a Geordie accent and a good solid normal name like Michael.
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Liverpool lost 4-1 to PSV. Man City are currently losing 2-0 to Bodo Glimt.
2 teams beating everyone else and amassing 100 points shows how competitive a league is whereas really tight title races and lots of teams beating each other is a sign of a league that is not competitive.
Apparently.
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The EPL is done.
3 - O to bubu gambit
AFCON players away and lads with an eye on the World Cup has made a bad league worse.
Bodo making fair shite of the strong league theory
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Marseille will end it tomorrow
Second place Man City Blues beaten by a team of lads working in cod liver oil factories.
Mikâs Tricky Reds comfortably handle last seasonâs UCL Finalists with a B team away from home. Tommy Frankâs midtable men handle 2nd placed Bundesliga side BVB with aplomb. The depth and quality of this years Premiership is unparalleled
A bunch of astro soccer lads in the middle of their winter break just destroyed Man City. Unreal!
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