| No, SKY TV and the F.A. between them ruined it. The league was much tighter and more competitive before SKY started paying the big clubs silly money, now it is normally won with a month to spare. A team like Fulham get far less money than Chelsea from SKY, even though Chelsea are already stupidly rich. The F.A. haven't got the collective backbone to do something about it. But yeah, Man U and Chelsea aren't helping - it means that every other club will have to be bought by a billionaire just to give them a fighting chance. They buy whoever they want, sometimes without obeying the rules (Ashley Cole, Jaap Stam and Carlos Tevez were all tapped up) and every other team just has to put up with it, and again, the F.A. do nothing to stop it (other than fining Chelsea over Ashley Cole - yeah go on, fine a billionaire, that'll teach him...) It has turned out that the league is now more of a procession than a competition. Man U or Chelsea 1st, Liverpool 2nd or 3rd, Arsenal 4th, everybody else competes for the European places. Its sh!t.  |