Why is the EPL the best league in the world?

not in malaysia anymore, though i hope to get back there soon, but the mr potato thing was really hilarious. my other favorite was a branded "manchester united champions roll-on deodorant". i've yet to come across any funny epl marketing in india but i'm sure i'll find some soon enough.

the intensely shouty trailers for the 'liverpool vs chelsea' nollywood film from a few years back seemed like one of the more potent foreign reimaginings of the epl

germany or italy have a layer of alienation here

I only have Freeview, whereas it seems like a few of the football nuts here seem to have access to every major league in the world, but I always try to catch the Bundesliga higlights show, which is on where... ITV4? Think I'd rather watch the Bundesliga than have the Premiership rammed down my gullet 24/7. Also I like how the big Teutonic blonde they've got to present it doesn't speak very good English, I mean out of all the big Teutonic blondes they could have hired in Germany....

Ive got setanta, espn as part of my cable bundle. I would use the brother's sky go but it's total shit so i stream anything else. CL is rte. Tbh i dont watch that much footy tho.

How the game is played there - lol no.
The rolling soap opera off the pitch - depressing rather than entertaining for the past couple of years
The biggest stars play there - manifestly untrue
It has the best clubs - manifestly untrue except Spurs obviously
England's football culture - being priced out of Premiership games
Because you can't avoid it - probably, also y'know it's here, I'd never be able to get the same level of emotional attachment to any other league even if I watched it every week
nobody outside England thinks it's tblitw - not true either

We've already discussed this tho iirc, in direct relation to why england has tblitw but are shit internationally. It's the addiction to thundering melodrama thing.

England's football culture - and this is different from anyone else's in what way?

Also the soap opera element isn't exactly a novelty in world football

There are some ways I think - more people going to games (the Championship is the real unique thing here), fan culture (though this is a residue of the dark days and dying of old age shortly imo), home of football (Wembley in particular seems to inspire slightly bewildering reverence), perception of fair play (Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker, maybe Beckham even)

Don't know the stats on yr first point, the rest is bollocks tho

Gary Lineker? The guy whose diving brought England to the verge of World Cup glory in 1990?

The Championship is something like the fourth-best-attended league in Europe iirc

Eh and hold on - those Cameroon ones weren't penalties?

I don't remember exactly which penalties he dived for tbh. There is a missing option in the is poll, "Because we say we are".

              average       total
Bundesliga   45,179  13,805,496
EPL           34,601  13,148,465
La Liga       30,275  11,504,567
Championship  17,738   9,791,690
Serie A       23,459   7,765,082

The really impressive thing about that poll is the Bundesliga averages! That's a big gap to second place.

I believe the depth of support in English football and the following of the lower leagues is stronger than elsewhere in Europe but let's not pretend The Best League In The World is concerned with that.

Bundesliga stadia still have terraces, which is a big part of it.

Actually Bundesliga 2 pushes the Championship close in average attendance, but has much fewer games so the total is only a bit over half.

(xp) and it's cheaper too?

Just to be clear, not a person posting here believes that the epl is 'the best league in the world', which is a very different thing than tblitw.

itt ppl pretend like last season wasn't the most ridiculous gripping fun

this season is the nasty hangover though i'll grant u

tbh the epl is blitw a bit by default? to most people, la liga is two teams and 18 sparring partners, bundesliga= bayern and 17 other teams with unwieldy names and then there's serie A, whose claim to greatness lies more in its past than current situation.

The grass is literally greener

Tempo

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

On Mancini's future Quinn added: "It's hard to say Mancini is not the right man. He's brought the title there after all these years.

"In any sane, civilised league, you would think he would be given more time but the Premier League is the most high-powered, fascinating, atmospherically-charged league in the world and with that comes the price to be paid for managers looking for time."

Get that man a sub-editor.

every time i hear 'EPL' now i think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg5amJgH7sc

suggest that NBC nix this 'BPL' shit and shore up the EDL name with gritty intertitles of remedial trash grunting E E EPL

11 likes 11 dislikes, a nation divided

good chant though, and I note the uploader takes his name from an SL2 banger

the bobbling transparent plastic umbrella as favoured by some elderly shoppers near me is the dark heart of that vid.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3308370/Leicester-City-s-match-ball-delivered-helicopter-Premier-League-clubs-mark-Remembrance-Sunday-poppy-displays.html

tragically 239 fans were subsequently shot for deserting their post before the half time whistle

I love all these clubs and am so glad that they took the time to celebrate this hard earned golden era of international world peace that we currently live in thanks to our armed forces. Ranieri looks a bit spooked, maybe a spectral El Duce was giving him some gyp!