do the other teams in the EPL have fans? If they do it ain't enough to fill a 100,000 seat stadium and thats all of the other EPL teams fans combined.
Why doesn't the EPL and other European leagues just implement a salary cap? This only makes the leagues better for the fans and clubs alike.
2007-01-26 09:10:43 · 10 answers · asked by Steve Smith for Prez 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
Must be hard for you Kortney. Knowing your team has no chance in hell to win the league most every year. Why is Europe too hardheaded enough to know that if they even the playing field and make more parity that everything will be better. Or they could just turn Champions into the premiere league and make the others just developmental.
2007-01-26 09:26:35 · update #1
Ashton, I'm saying make Champions League the one premiere league. The others will be class B or the second tier.
Ex) Man U doesn't play anybody but Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool in England. But they schedule the other teams that qualify for Champions. Don't just make Champions a semi-league where it turns into exit rounds so quickly. Make the groups a conference of sorts, and then just have a supreme champion of Europe. I know they already do but the Champions League of now is similar to a group of Allstar teams. The best from each country. Why not just have the best of each country join in one league all the tiem?
2007-01-26 10:08:12 · update #2
Ukgebe this is for you:
Average attendance for NFL games is around 70,000 and that is average(also, NFL stadiums are small when compared to college stadiums.. This lowly average would have all but 2 stadiums in England full to capacity.
Average attendance to a Michigan/Tennessee/Ohio State/Penn State game is in the upwards of 105,000 people. That's 15,000 more than Wembley will even seat.
Anyways, in all of England there might be 4 million fans of teams not named Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool or Man U. That's pathetic. Why you would think I envy England is pathetic as well.
2007-01-26 10:57:52 · update #3
as i can see, you are from US and try to learn football(players use foot to kick the ball and not throw and carry the ball with hand and run) here. since you are quite new to this sport, i will give you some tips.
EPL might not able to generate as much income as American handball right now; however, it might not be fact in future. the fact is EPL has fan base in worldwide compare to American handball. the most significant of EPL expansion is to Asia countries especially China and India. there are more than 2 billion of prospect fans in these countries. if every single of these prospect fan spend 1 USD for EPL clubs, there will be 2 billion of income for EPL clubs. this is the minimum income i count.
on another hand, American handball has only market of 300 million consumers and the population growing rate is only 0.59 % per year. at the same time, not all of them are interested to American handball. i know many Americans do not have interest to American handball at all. the worst is they do not understand the sport.
in EPL, you can see players from more than 150 countries from worldwide. in contrast, you only can see players from not more than 10 countries. the popularity of EPL can not be denied when its matches are being shown in 195 countries. EPL teams have fan clubs worldwide. increment of EPL is unlimited where as American handball is limited. in fact, there are million of fans outside of UK try to buy a ticket to watch a match in EPL. one of them is me. the football stadiums' security design do not able to accomodate too much seat like American handball stadiums.
salary cap can be short term solution for football delevopment in EPL and other European leagues. investment is needed to develop and discover talented players. in long term, it will not help because other leagues in free market will increase their salary to attract good players. example, L.A. Galaxy signed David Beckham for USD 50 million a year. salary cap is suitable for socialism or communism era. shall we start the era again?
honestly, salary is not a big issue because a skillful and talented player will not want to play for small team in middle of no where for huge sum of salary. it will kill off the career prospect of the player.
Roman Abramovich spent more than USD1 billion into Chelsea F.C. did Chelsea F.C won everything in European competition? no, they did not.
Conclusion, football is the world games and it needs more than money to win the honour.
2007-01-26 13:35:26 · answer #1 · answered by macvanteh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chelsea have 1 point against the other three after Man U twice, Liverpool twice and Arsenal, so count them out. That is terrible effort and anyone that put them first or second has no idea. Man United have played Chelsea twice, Liverpool away and Arsenal away with 4 points and although they are top that ain't great but as we have all heard from the complaints this season they still have two home games to go which will probably mean they will get the most points from these fixtures. Liverpool have played four. 2 against Chelsea, and 1 against Man U, and Arsenal and have 7 points. But remember Chelsea have sucked against the top 4. Arsenal have 7 after only playing Man U Once, Chelsea Once and Liverpool Once. But the team that has taken over their place in this so called unbeatable top four (Villa) has beaten them and drawn away to take 4points off the two games compared to Arsenals 1. Aston Villa have 6 points after Arsenal twice, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U. So if this question was based on current teams because a team really cant live on past glory then the order would have to be.... 1. Man United 2. Liverpool 3. Arsenal (but who cares about that when they are fighting to get into europe) 3.5. (Aston Villa if they were invited into your question) 4. Chelsea
2016-05-24 02:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by Sara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the words of Mr T:
Shut up crazy fool !
Last match at St James Park, 52 000 attendance, and that was against West Ham. That's already more than half of your 100 000 seat stadium, with just one team
Last Everton home game, about 34 000, well, it ain't looking good, as I will add bottom of the table Watford with a 14 000 attendance for their last home game to make up your 100 000 seater stadium, with 3 teams, placed 7th, 12th and 20th in the EPL
I can't understand where your jealousy or ignorance of the EPL comes from:
UPDATED
Ah right, you're comments now make sense, your an a gridiron fan
Now let's get things straight, the US has a population of about 298 400 000, the uk about 60 600 000, which puts you at a rate of about 1 uk person for every 5 US people.
But yet your gridiron football has 32 teams playing in various divisions. UK football has 20 alone in it's top flight
You play 16/17 games a season, the EPL plays 38.
You are somehow trying to belittle not only the EPL but also Football ( or soccer to you ), yet Football is a world sport, a true world sport, go to Brazil, Angola, China, New Zealand, you'll see many many teams/people playing football, but very few if any even knowing how to play american football.
Stop being ignorant and realise that football is the true world sport !
BTW, I'm not british, I'm South African in case you were gonna question me favouring my own country !
2007-01-26 10:46:17 · answer #3 · answered by Non_Flying_Dutchman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theres plenty of fans in the EPL in England where support for clubs is mainly local. Kinda like here in the US.. West Ham(Keira Knightley is a big fan of them), Aston Villa(I think Prince William is a big fan of them). Just not as many as the big 4. A salary cap would increase parity yes... But then you dont have a dream team and having a team become a global brand(much more than a team).. You do make some valid points but Europe has 54 countries.. Are you saying just have the Champions League as a league(which it already kinda is)
2007-01-26 10:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
listen mate if you and 100.000 other yank's want to go and watch a bunch of Cissy's wrapped in cotton wool that's up to you. i like the rest of the world love real football and your argument about filling ground's is just pathetic. look at it this way count up your population then count how many professional club's you have then take time to to count our clubs and population you will soon see that your game is not as well supported as our's.
2007-01-26 19:43:49 · answer #5 · answered by Deano™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each team have it's own fans.
2007-01-26 10:26:38 · answer #6 · answered by archeraarash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they do. I'm an Everton fan.
2007-01-26 09:18:00 · answer #7 · answered by Kortney 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes west ham have loyla suppoters if they losseing like they are now they will still came and still see west ham play
2007-01-26 09:58:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WELL CONSIDERING NEWCASTLE SOLD OUT THERE STADIUM [52,000]AGAINST WEST HAM YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABT!
2007-01-27 08:14:19 · answer #9 · answered by olliemort 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a good idea...
2007-01-26 10:22:09 · answer #10 · answered by Tasha_ACmilan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋