Why The Premier League Is The Best League In The World

Why The Premier League Is The Best League In The World

Ever since Barcelona won the Champions League in Rome, people have been talking about how the La Liga was the best league in the world and bla bla bla.

To be frank, there is no point in comparing a two-team league with a league that gives you shocks every week.

Five years ago, 11 of the top 23 players in the Ballon d'Or voting plied their trade in England. This year we have just three, of whom one - Asamoah Gyan - spent most of the year in France, has scored one goal for Sunderland and doesn't deserve to be on the list anyway.

La Liga has 11 representatives, while the Bundesliga (five) and Serie A (four) also beat the Premier League.

This statistics sent the whole world in mad in pronouncing the La Liga as the best league in the world. But Ladies and Gentlemen, that is so not true.

The contenders for the Ballon d'Or came from a narrow choice of clubs. 19 out of the 23 played for only 4 teams; Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich. Can you imagine that?

And why those 4 clubs are the only ones? Because they are the ones who had a good year because the La Liga is all about two teams. Real Madrid and Barcelona. They might have the best players but watching only two teams compete for the title every season doesn't represent the best league in the world.

In contrast, the Premier League offers a better package of action, entertainment and passion. The Barclays Premier League has brought football to a whole new level.

The past two days have been significant proofs to why Premier League always reigns supreme. The so called revitalised AC Milan has no answer at all to the pace and precision of Tottenham Hotspurs. Absolutely no answer. Therefore, i pronounce that comparing the Premier League with the Serie A is an act of stupidity.

We all saw how the team that sits fourth in the Premier League embarrassed the kings of Serie A. The fact is that, Italian football is at its worse state for the past 3 to 4 years. It's only a place for beats like Gattuso i suppose.

Better still, Arsenal proved a massive amount of things last night. First, Barcelona aren't as invincible as people thought. Second, a team doesn't need to abandon their style of game just because they are facing Barcelona. Third, you do not need to be afraid of losing if you have possession. The list simply goes on.

La Liga has been a growing business over the past few years with teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona really setting the standards high.

Yet La Liga's all-conquering duopoly comes at the considerable cost of competitive balance. Valencia are what passes for a third power in Spain, but simply cannot keep up.

They finished a distant third last season, 25 points behind second-placed Real Madrid. They were so far adrift, they needed binoculars to see the top two.

And what happened over the summer? Valencia lost their two best players, one of them to Barcelona, while the big two strengthened yet again.

If these situations progress further, we can see the La Liga evolving into a boring league, pretty much like what the Scottish league is now. A league influenced by only Barcelona and Real Madrid will one day look exactly like the pathetic Scottish League influenced by Rangers and Celtic.

Even though tackling is fairly robust in England, last season the Premier League saw the least fouls and yellow cards of any of the 'Big Five' leagues.

Spain averaged a massive 5.08 yellow cards and 0.39 reds per game, compared with 3.17 yellows and 0.18 reds in England.

The obvious conclusion? There are fewer stoppages in the Premier League, where refs let the game run, and more games end with 22 players on the pitch.

English football might not have the tactical genius aspect of Guardiola and Mourinho for people who love intellectual challenge but i believe that football is all about passion, entertainment and action above everything else.

That's why the Premier League is simply the best league in the world.