Best League In The World?

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  • Father Dougal Mcguire - 13 years ago

    The intensity of the English Premier League?
    The style and skill of Spain’s La Liga?
    The slower paced but ingeniously tactical Serie A of Italy?
    Bundesliga has no description. haha

    Voted for Bundesliga because I think Bundesliga has bits each class aspects.
    Intensity, skill, tactical, competetive.

  • Cillian - 13 years ago

    I have to disagree with you there flicky. It's La Liga all the way in my eyes. You're only taking one particular season into account there with the gap between first and fifth. The gap between first and sixth (roughly the European spots, sometimes 7) in the past 6 years has averaged 28.8 points in England while it's only been 24.8 in Spain.
    Plus it's a much larger gap between Barcelona and Espanyol at the minute because Barcelona are simply the greatest team on the planet at the minute. They're a lot better than United, the current leaders of the EPL.
    Blackpool have done enough (for the minute) to be considered not one of the 'lesser' teams I think. And I know yeah, nobody predicted them to do so well, I certainly didn't, and they're playing excellently. But look at the quality of football at a Stoke match, or even a West Ham match (sorry flick, but they can often look a defeated team). And the gap between teams says nothing about their quality, or the quality of the league. There's a lot more quality in the relegated Spanish teams. I remember Xerex the season they got relegated, playing fantastic football all the way to the end of the season. And Hércules, who would probably be the closest equivalent of a Spanish Blackpool (tiny team really) beat Barcelona 2-0 IN the Nou Camp this season, and they're currently 12th. If anybody thinks there's a guarantee of results in Spain they're certainly mistaken. Another example - only a couple of days ago, Real Madrid being held to a draw at Almeria, who currently lie bottom of the league.

    Referred to a Guillem Balague article on the sky sports site for the stats up at the top.

  • flicky - 13 years ago

    for me the only two condenters in this are premier league and la liga, but premier league wins it here for me. La liga offers some very exciting football but the gap in quality from the leaders (barca) to say 5th place Espanyol is huge (22 points). compared to utd and spurs gap of 8 points in the same league position as barca-espanyol.

    what has impressed me most about the EPL is the standard of football from the lesser teams. no one would have dreamt seeing blackpool in 10th place at the start of the season while west ham at the bottom could potentially move to 15th with just one win.

    so basically the EPL is the best league in my oppinion purely because there is no guarantee of results in any matches but a nightmare when betting

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