What do you think of the FA Premiership?

ReefBreak

Okay, I posted this on the Sports board, but nobody reads that one (they're all in Soccer, or whatnot), so I think the after-hours forum is a better place for it.

Myself and some friends had this conversation recently, that far less people are following the Premiership these days than, say, 5 years ago. Over-exposure, the domination of 3/4 teams, and the bad reputation of players have turned some people (including myself) off the league.

ReefBreak

Oops, ignore this one, I never posted the poll on it. Go here instead.

DEmeant0r

So why don't you post it on the Soccer forums, where its appropriate.

ReefBreak

...Because that's a forum where mostly everyone likes the Premiership - I was looking to get the opinion from a less partisan, i.e. neutral, forum.

whosurpaddy

i used to follow it a lot more than i do nowadays tbh. i would imagine the decline of my team (liverpool) has something to do with this, although i only really stopped following it this/last year so its not completely that.

i dunno id imagine that all the scandels lately has had an effect of turning me off aswell.

Sleepy

Stopped giving a **** years ago. It's nothing but a business these days with only 3/4 teams in with a real chance of winning it... Basically, Sky ruined English football imho. So, I went out and bought a Galway jersey instead and got interested in the GAA...

It may not be as glamourous, but it's real. Teams play for pride, not money. You follow your home town, not the most successful club. That's the way I believe sport should be played, as sport, not big business.

Deadwing

Two words.

Homo erotic.

ferdi

Originally posted by Sleepy
Stopped giving a **** years ago. It's nothing but a business these days with only 3/4 teams in with a real chance of winning it... Basically, Sky ruined English football

bingo - its a load of sheit

Pigman II

I think I really stopped caring about the premiership after I got banned from the Soccer board for the fifth time. Nah just kidding, I stopped caring LONG before then.

It's a boring league populated by mostly crappy teams and crappy players and the fact that for the last 6 seasons ManU/Arsenal have taken 11 out of the 12 winner/runner up slots pretty much says it all. It might as well be the SPL for all it's worth.

Go visit your local Eircom League team instead! Might not be the best footy in the world but at least it isn't suffering from delusions of gradeur.

Kold

I follow Tottenham. I no longer watch games. I no longer cry myself to sleep.

alleepally

Over exposure simple as that + the sport is taken out of it when it's over commercialised as it is.

Yep, overexposed and it'll go the way of those other great british institutions like Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin etc.

Bungalow Bill

Originally posted by Sleepy
Stopped giving a **** years ago. It's nothing but a business these days with only 3/4 teams in with a real chance of winning it... Basically, Sky ruined English football imho. So, I went out and bought a Galway jersey instead and got interested in the GAA...

It may not be as glamourous, but it's real. Teams play for pride, not money. You follow your home town, not the most successful club. That's the way I believe sport should be played, as sport, not big business.

Sky was just the natural evolution. These clubs get loads of money from TV deals. Without the money all the good players would leave and we'd eventually have an english style eircom league. ie crap.

The argument about the 2/3 team dominance can be made about almost any sport and isn't a decent reason not to support a sport.

mollser

since our rugby is now professional, and there are top class games to go and see week in week out, my interest in soccer is actually zero now - i find it so boring to watch.

Can't understand why 'people' spend so much time, money and effort supporting an english game, when there is so much domestic sport to put effort into, gaa, rugger and domestic soccer. And then they go and take the 'i hate everything english' attitude.....

gets on my wick. Premiership is a load of sh!te.

StephenInsane

Originally posted by mollser

Can't understand why 'people' spend so much time, money and effort supporting an english game, when there is so much domestic sport to put effort into, gaa, rugger and domestic soccer.

Well put.

Doctor Funfrock

i love it!

Mossy Monk

deliscious

(someguy)

there's beaucoup bucks and media coverage involved in English and european football, where as in comparison there's almost none involved in GAA and the other more boring Irish sports.
"Teams play for pride, not money."
Why do some of those culchie players try and milk money out of it by trying to get wages then?

Senor_Fudge

****e thats what i think of it
a waste of time and money