No 19 teams are fine with balance only Oil City off
>Could it be that the gap between the Championship and the Premier League has widened further?
The previous season saw all 3 promoted teams remain in the league, so not really.
The gap has always been pretty big between top of the championship and the top half of the premier league, I dont think one season where the gap is wider really means anything.
There really are only one (arguably three) problems in the PL.
1) how PSR has killed competition and allows the usual suspects to pull the ladder up behind them.
2) the inconsistency of VAR. And the delays it causes.
3) injury time played leading to ridiculous amounts of injuries.
Otherwise the league is fine.
We’ll never have, nor does anyone want forced parity in the Premier League. The most prevailing issue at the moment is that the team dominating has 115 charges levied against them.
Doesn’t every league in the world pretty much have this?
I hate City as much as the next guy but why wasn’t it a problem when Liverpool won 10 league titles in 15 years or when Man United won it 11 times in 17 years? The league isn’t the problem, City not playing by the rules is what ruins it. People don’t like seeing cheats prosper!
How long will these tears keep going?
Dont tell me we have to endure these posts for the next few months
This is every league in the world where money isn’t on an equal playing field
I think a lot of people commenting on this article have not actually read it.
It’s not just about the same team winning the league, but only one change to the top eight, an increasing number of teams stuck in perpetual mid-table and the three promoted sides all going straight back down. It makes some very valid points.
I don’t feel for any of the big 6 clubs. It’s there own fault they aren’t better than city. The other 14 however…
W ,
Blame the big clubs for creating a cartel in the form of FFP but failing to stop us getting underneath the closing door beforehand. The PL is a cartel, and just because we got in ahead of it doesn’t mean we weren’t the target of it. Newcastle are now where we would be had we not invested enough pre-FFP.
Villa are going into the CL and will have to sell players to make FFP. Who can afford them? The big clubs. How fucked is that? FFP should go. Tying spending to revenue sounds noble for sustainability, but it doesn’t actually work. How did deducting points from Everton make them more sustainable. It just put them at risk for a relegation that would have doomed the club to bankruptcy.
In thr good old days competitive balance was achived by bribing the refs, what has football fallen nowadays
It’s just a financial competition, isn’t it? I love watching PL, but prefer to watch the smaller teams that are better matched – no point in watching the bought and paid for giants win.
Wish that there could be a better mechanism for parity – US sports have done well in this regard, but none of the mechanisms would directly transfer to PL.
What a pointless thing the title has become, eh?
Hopefully the spending cap will help
City are the Champions my friend, they keep on spending till the end
WE ARRRRE THE CHAMPIOOONS WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
NOOOOOO
TIME
FOR
L000000SERs
Cuz weeeeee are the champioooons
-0f the WORLD
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No 19 teams are fine with balance only Oil City off
>Could it be that the gap between the Championship and the Premier League has widened further?
The previous season saw all 3 promoted teams remain in the league, so not really.
The gap has always been pretty big between top of the championship and the top half of the premier league, I dont think one season where the gap is wider really means anything.
There really are only one (arguably three) problems in the PL.
1) how PSR has killed competition and allows the usual suspects to pull the ladder up behind them.
2) the inconsistency of VAR. And the delays it causes.
3) injury time played leading to ridiculous amounts of injuries.
Otherwise the league is fine.
We’ll never have, nor does anyone want forced parity in the Premier League. The most prevailing issue at the moment is that the team dominating has 115 charges levied against them.
Doesn’t every league in the world pretty much have this?
I hate City as much as the next guy but why wasn’t it a problem when Liverpool won 10 league titles in 15 years or when Man United won it 11 times in 17 years? The league isn’t the problem, City not playing by the rules is what ruins it. People don’t like seeing cheats prosper!
How long will these tears keep going?
Dont tell me we have to endure these posts for the next few months
This is every league in the world where money isn’t on an equal playing field
I think a lot of people commenting on this article have not actually read it.
It’s not just about the same team winning the league, but only one change to the top eight, an increasing number of teams stuck in perpetual mid-table and the three promoted sides all going straight back down. It makes some very valid points.
I don’t feel for any of the big 6 clubs. It’s there own fault they aren’t better than city. The other 14 however…
W ,
Blame the big clubs for creating a cartel in the form of FFP but failing to stop us getting underneath the closing door beforehand. The PL is a cartel, and just because we got in ahead of it doesn’t mean we weren’t the target of it. Newcastle are now where we would be had we not invested enough pre-FFP.
Villa are going into the CL and will have to sell players to make FFP. Who can afford them? The big clubs. How fucked is that? FFP should go. Tying spending to revenue sounds noble for sustainability, but it doesn’t actually work. How did deducting points from Everton make them more sustainable. It just put them at risk for a relegation that would have doomed the club to bankruptcy.
In thr good old days competitive balance was achived by bribing the refs, what has football fallen nowadays
It’s just a financial competition, isn’t it? I love watching PL, but prefer to watch the smaller teams that are better matched – no point in watching the bought and paid for giants win.
Wish that there could be a better mechanism for parity – US sports have done well in this regard, but none of the mechanisms would directly transfer to PL.
What a pointless thing the title has become, eh?
Hopefully the spending cap will help
City are the Champions my friend, they keep on spending till the end
WE ARRRRE THE CHAMPIOOONS WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
NOOOOOO
TIME
FOR
L000000SERs
Cuz weeeeee are the champioooons
-0f the WORLD