PL Marriage or Legia Calcio divorce. Whats best for everyone?
5:00pm Thursday, 14th May 2009 The Premier League had been a commercial success long before it became the powerhouse league in Europe. This year again, the four semi-finalists for the Champions League contained only one team not from the P L (and Chelsea will long insist that it should have been an all English final again this year, between the same two PL Clubs as last). But England’s top league was the richest for a decade and a half before it began to show its superiority so unmistakeably on the pitch. What’s changed? There were those who argued that the PL was rich simply because it got such value out of its TV rights; not because it was the best football, but because its games were often so dramatic (and attended by such intense fans in mostly full stadiums week after week). In other words, for a long time it wasn’t brilliant football in the PL, but it was the best television-football by a mile. Now it’s both. The PL clubs appear to be combining traditions from the north &south of
