Is Premier League Boring?

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MisterJ said:
I think I'd just like it to be more competitive.

I get that some clubs are richer than others and will always be nearer the top, but it's more fun when there are a wider range of teams involved at the top.

How many different sides won the league in the 70's compared to the 90's?

It's that kind of thing I'd love to see a return too, but no idea how it could happen
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Well manure won 0 in the 70s a lot in the 90s
And they where by far the wealthiest .
Top of me head
70s
Arsenal,,Leeds,Derby x2,the rs forest.
90s
Arsenal leeds Blackburn, manure
 
James Tarkowski got absolutely dragged by the media for making a good 50-50 challenge in the first 10 minutes of a Merseyside derby and had to deal with his missus getting death threats as a result.

I'm as woke as can be (literal green party voting vegan guardian reader) and I think the game has gone soft - and with it extremely boring.
 
YoboCopter said:
The individual players just dont exist anymore look at this list of players from one league in one year

Every league just had alot more quality than it does now

Plus as everyone said its gone alot more % based rather than taking chances

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Some of that really is just nostalgia though, players and teams from a certain period in your life/world history take on an extra resonance. You can bet that at the exact time those players were in that league, there will have been discussions between arl fellas in the bars of Milan and Rome about how football wasn't the same and Totti and Inzaghi weren't fit to lace the boots of Rossi and Antognoni. It was ever thus.
 

Eggs said:
…I sometimes wonder about this and conclude if Everton were competing at the top of the league and competitive in cup competitions then I’d be tuned into it a lot more. When we’re struggling at the wrong end I’m glad when it’s cricket season.
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I'm going to be honest the only thing that's kept me more interested is that we had the chance of getting relegated. Don't get me wrong I didn't like it, but it made each game more meaningful. If we were where we are now all season without a chance of relegation like West Ham have been then it would definitely be less interesting.
 
daza_1973 said:
70s - Everton, Arsenal, Leeds, Derby, RS and Forest. - 6
90s - Liverpool , Arsenal, Leeds, Man U, Blackburn - 5
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It was the noughties that ruined it. Then only United, Arsenal, and Chelsea won it. I think it was four in the 10s, mind: United, Chelsea, City, and someone else.

And only two this decade.

The trend is definitely downward...
 
YoboCopter said:
The numbers is nothing to do with the point tbh
Just the level of player
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There's 15 names. Italy have had a dose of what we're going through already, the family owned businesses (car companies) got eaten up and supporting the football became difficult, so the cookie cutter athletes became vogue (surely not in Milan) and the business side of things came to the fore. When they diffuse the sport out of the game and make it money and stats and var and buying penalties (juventus) then the majesty and romance that draws fans and young want to be players to the flame of the spectacle, is lost.

Haaland
Salah
KDB
Son
Eze
Isak
Palmer
Fernandes
Saka
Cunha
Rice
Rashford
saint virge
saint trent
saint macallister

There's an amount of recency bias involved in this, holding quite a lot of dislike for so many playing currently makes this task rather unpalatable. Comparing Italy's top 15 players now would be interesting.
 
I think this is probably the weakest the league has been in a long time, but im not sure that equates to boring. If all the typical top 6 were firing on all cylinders, the table would look very different, but having City win every season with a rotating cast of 5-6 clubs behind them isnt really fun either. At least this season is different, and we should be happy about it or we wouldve had a worse time getting safe.
 

Yep, very boring.

I used to love watching City, peak City was unreal to watch.

They are pants now, just shows how much it was them proping the league up.
 
The game's not boring. It's still a wonderful game despite VAR and all the diving etc.
It's the attitude of the media that's become boring in its predictability and hyperbole.
 
Most teams now are playing tippy tappy football, or a variation on it, and it is tedious beyond belief. Rather than attack, take a risk, and possibly score, a lot of teams just feed it back to the half way line and start probing once again. The laughable thing is when teams like Burnley and Southampton do it and get nowhere - they were, and are, not good enough yet they persist with the nonsensical approach.
 
RufusCat said:
Most teams now are playing tippy tappy football, or a variation on it, and it is tedious beyond belief. Rather than attack, take a risk, and possibly score, a lot of teams just feed it back to the half way line and start probing once again. The laughable thing is when teams like Burnley and Southampton do it and get nowhere - they were, and are, not good enough yet they persist with the nonsensical approach.
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It's idiotic I agree, Southampton gave RS a goal from doing exact thing. Plus Guardiola copied it off Yugoslav sides like Zvezda and Hajduk. It was all about drawing out pressing players and playing ball in behind. It wasn't about just keeping possession for sake of it. Watch Zvezda v RS in 74, to see how it's done properly.
 
Yes. But i do find i miss it during the internaional breaks.
I told a kopite last week they are the dullest champions since Blackburn Rovers. I got the bite i was hoping for. But i did actually mean it.
 

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