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Who is a La Liga Football Fan on Interference?
Nah, pretty average league. Bundesliga all the way,
Don't really follow La Liga. But I do support Real. Getting tired of Barca's tiki-taka. When Barca get in front, they make the match unbearable to watch. Just endlessly passing it around in midfield.
I only follow the Premier League, aside from the Belgian League of course.
Also, you can't judge a league on the best two teams. The gap between Barca, Real and the rest is enormous. You can say the same of Bayern. The worst part is that they just buy the best players of the only team that can rival them.
Well I guess that settles it then. All other leagues are monumental wastes of time.
La Liga has only two competitive teams, which makes it a monumental waste of time. A league cannot be judged on it's elite, obscenely "valuable" or rich clubs. It also needs to be assessed on some kind of competitiveness and sportsmanship.
And Bundesliga did produce officially the two best European teams of last season, Champions League is the scale of that.
But surely the competitiveness of the J-League, A-League and MLS have a lot more to offer the week in, week out football fans? The gap between trophy-purchasers like Man Shitty, ManUre, Real Madrid, Bayern and Bar$a and the rest of the clubs in their respective leagues just seems both unsporting and grotesque?
The Bundesliga is admittedly not much better (although it has shown some admirable competitiveness spanning the last decade compared with England and Spain).
I personally think that the most inadequate measure of how good a league is is by using Champions League success as a yardstick, but if one is to use this as a measure (because it ignores that there are usually 19 other clubs in the league), surely Germany wins based on last year's Champions League final?
Most hideously of all is what is happening to Ligue 1, with Qatari money turning PSG into a shopping trolley full of talent. Sad days for French football. They'll purchase some Champions League Titles sooner ributes rather than later. Poor Sochaux, Evian and Nantes will never again get a look in
Well put. I fully agree with you and since I live in Vancouver, Canada. My Whitecaps are in the MLS so yeah it has more diversity but not as much as you think....LA Galaxy keeps pushing their weight around and have won the league a number of times. Here in North America they do a "Play- offs" idea which contributes to the variety vs just strictly point basis.
Overall the football in North America is second rate and played on turf pitches so I still like Europe the best.
Considering the last serious attempt at pro soccer/football in the US failed due to teams like the Cosmos buying up all the talent and small market teams going out of business... I think the MLS style of keeping teams as equal as they can in is vital to the league's long term success. Eventually Garber will take off the training wheels, but the growth of the league thus far has been strong.
I do disagree with their insistence on putting a second team in NYC so soon... I think it'll eventually lead to the Red Bulls going out of business.
I do disagree with their insistence on putting a second team in NYC so soon... I think it'll eventually lead to the Red Bulls going out of business.
Me too. Why does New York always think they need two teams for every sport. !
It's the league's decision, not the city.
And when you have double the population of the second largest city in the US, you get an extra sports team.
But you're only as good as the eleven blokes on the field, not an entire population.
Kompany is a Belgian player I have always respected and enjoyed. I hope to see Belgium succeed on the world stage as they are a under-valued country in Football terms..
Premier League suffers from the same problems that La Liga, Bundusliga and Seria A suffer from. 1-4 big clubs always dominating.
Man U and their band wagon supporters have been the worst since 1992 when the Premier League first opened. Almost every year it's the same club winning or maybe Chelsea and in the late 90's Arsenal. I really enjoyed seeing Man City take it a few seasons ago in such a dramatic fashion.
A few years ago my friend and I were in Manchester to see Oasis in concert. We were at our own table and talking football. He started talking smack about Man U and some guy overheard him. He comes over to our table grabs my friend by the shirt pushing him up against the wall and demanding that he apologize for putting down "the greatest football club in England and the world!".
I took the guy from behind and pushed him away. He then pulled out a knife and tried to stab at us but by this time was grabbed by security and held for the Police. We were told to leave and not show our faces in their Man U bar again.
Now, I did not know it was a "Man U Bar" and freedom of speech entitles us to our opinions without the threat of violence. Since that day, my dislike of Manchester United has grown so that they are the one sports team I really loath. I can respect the skills of their last manager-Ferguson but the ignorance and arrogance of the fans drives me crazy.
When I converse with many football fans on various sites and on-line communities I find most Man U supporters are very unaware of the history of their team. They don't even know who was the previous manager to Alex Ferguson before he joined (Ron Atkinson was his name) or even more shocking "Munich Air Disaster"!
They regularly express comments about their club being the "Best and Greatest In The World". Their main trophy success is: 3 Champions League Victories (Liverpool who are their biggest rivals have 5, AC Milan have 7 and Real Madrid have 9!).
The other "big bragging rights of Man U fans" is their 20 League Titles.
(Real Madrid have won the league 31 times, Barcelona: 22 Times, Bayern Munchen: 23 times) Even Liverpool is only two behind them at 18.
Now that the numbers are clear. It means Manchester United are not the Greatest Football Club In The World but Real Madrid are. It is hard for me as a Barca fan to admit it but it's true.
Real Madrid recieved the award for the "Most Successful Club of the 20th Century" and the fact they top the Forbes list as the "Richest Sports Club" in the world means Man U supporters need to wake up and smell the coffee!
You "Red Devils" have had your years of success under Ferguson BUT will never see that again. Just like Liverpool was in the 70's and 80's. I am hoping for a more open ended Premier League this year with teams like Tottenham Hotspur or others be able to gain more ground in the League and not just all those horrid Man U wagoneers.