It’s the blatantly obvious elephant in the room that even a young child can see and yet is never talked about in the media:
In the Premier League, economic might determines sporting achievement. Plain and simple.
We all know it and yet the farce is allowed to continue where the system is totally rigged in favour of the super rich. By assessing every sides transfer spend and wage budgets, you can nigh on predict Premier League final positions within about three places every season.
And yet managers like Guardiola are lorded as ‘greats’ and tactical geniuses despite being able to assemble a squad, which in effect are a collection of the best players in the world. He has spent £900m at City and has failed to even get them into a Champions League semi final. Success? Does that deserve the title of being lorded as a great manager? What would Hodgson or Wilder have achieved with that budget? Be surprised if either didn’t enjoy similar domestic success as the ‘great’ Pep.
I’ve said it many times before, but the Premier League is like having a 100m sprint race where six of the eight competitors have to run with their hands tied behind their backs. The other two able bodied runners obviously finish first and second and wheel away in triumph getting all the cheers, congratulations, plaudits and prizes, deemed the best in their field and talked reverently in terms of sporting achievement. That would be madness eh? Welcome to the Premier League. What a fantastic message that sends out to society. Being super rich is more impressive and rewarding than ability, talent, hard work and loyalty.
In a fair and true sporting competition, there would be a limit to how many players above a certain amount of transfer fee can be bought by one club, and a limit on the average wage. Never going to happen is it?
In the absence of that ever happening, I think there should be a real league table produced and publicly distributed, where budgets are taken into account up against sporting results. Then we can really assess who have really achieved in the truest sporting sense.
Congratulations Sheffield United! The TRUE Premier League Champions of 2019/20.
In the Premier League, economic might determines sporting achievement. Plain and simple.
We all know it and yet the farce is allowed to continue where the system is totally rigged in favour of the super rich. By assessing every sides transfer spend and wage budgets, you can nigh on predict Premier League final positions within about three places every season.
And yet managers like Guardiola are lorded as ‘greats’ and tactical geniuses despite being able to assemble a squad, which in effect are a collection of the best players in the world. He has spent £900m at City and has failed to even get them into a Champions League semi final. Success? Does that deserve the title of being lorded as a great manager? What would Hodgson or Wilder have achieved with that budget? Be surprised if either didn’t enjoy similar domestic success as the ‘great’ Pep.
I’ve said it many times before, but the Premier League is like having a 100m sprint race where six of the eight competitors have to run with their hands tied behind their backs. The other two able bodied runners obviously finish first and second and wheel away in triumph getting all the cheers, congratulations, plaudits and prizes, deemed the best in their field and talked reverently in terms of sporting achievement. That would be madness eh? Welcome to the Premier League. What a fantastic message that sends out to society. Being super rich is more impressive and rewarding than ability, talent, hard work and loyalty.
In a fair and true sporting competition, there would be a limit to how many players above a certain amount of transfer fee can be bought by one club, and a limit on the average wage. Never going to happen is it?
In the absence of that ever happening, I think there should be a real league table produced and publicly distributed, where budgets are taken into account up against sporting results. Then we can really assess who have really achieved in the truest sporting sense.
Congratulations Sheffield United! The TRUE Premier League Champions of 2019/20.
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