Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens reflect on 30 years of the Premier League on The Gab and Juls Show. The pair wonder if the league is really more intense that its European rivals and explain how the Premier League ascended to its position as the biggest league in the world.
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Part of it is that they speak English – the language of the world.
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Release the full video.
Foreign owners are definitely better except Americans. They're by far the worst.
Great players, physical game not players rolling around constantly, has more than 1 team that can win the league and even the bottom teams can compete and most importantly it's in English. Being in English allows people all over the world to enjoy it. There aren't enough Italian speakers in the world for people to enjoy the content and coverage.
4 leagues should be a good as premier …Spain france Italy Germany …… all four either don’t share the money top to bottom off the league as fairly … epl is about 2 to 1 ratio all the others far higher … and/or the other 4 have had their top teams Real Madrid Barcelona fc Bayern and increasing psg are so far ahead off the rest off the league it’s boring … every time the premier league has had a huge gap appear it hasn’t taken long before a team fills in a big gap in talent in that part off the table within a season or two …
Historically, Football was invented in China. Now recognized by FIFA.
Age: It's been around for a long time. Plenty of well-established fanbases.
Language: English is the most widespread language in the world, giving it a massive potential market.
Money: Massive market + highly deregulated = Ridiculous amounts of money changing hands.
Interestingly, the quality of the football has never mattered all that much. There have been spells where it offered the best football, but there have been plenty of times when other leagues were better too (primarily Serie A and La Liga). Most of the money kept going to the EPL regardless.
$$$ is the only real answer nothing else
I think it's because the UK has more bigger cities than the other leagues and more top flight teams in the capital making more rivalries and intensity (Berlin has 1, Paris has 1, Madrid has 2, Rome has 2, London has 7) and the Prem has cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds with big populations and working class followings that countries like France, Spain, Germany and Italy can't compete with
It's down to the fans at the grounds, the style of play that fans demand (high effort), fair distribution of TV funds and a highly competitive football pyramid
Plain and simple. English football started to grow commercially sooner because they speak English. English is the corporate language
I think Barclays made the premier league accessible therefore it reached many countries and became the most watched league in the world.
No it s not the best. Only English fans that lives in the bubble of the premier league disagrees, I can not believe that teams who are run by billionaires could get more respect than teams run by the fans and democratic elections such as benefica and real madrid Barcelona. Unless talk sport and British media is getting corrupted by these billionaires especially the Arabs. LA liga and Spanish teams are unique and create special atmosphere, the best leagueintheworldbyfar. Oil 🛢 💰 will not move smart fans toward these terrorist money teams like Chel$e , Cash City, P§G, Newca$le.
You could check how Gen z think about football. You could add English language, as tool used very good by the premier league to promote it in new football countries such as US, China, India, Australia, Canada while old football nations in the rest of Europe, Africa, Middle East and south America, where football is considered it as a religion not as an entertainment Cashcow money for Americans, Arabs, oligarchs and Asian oligarchs. They follow la LA liga not EPL. Personally, I m a capitalist, I love ❤ capitalism, Football is the only passion where I consider money 💰 has no place, being a fan of a team that's run by democratic elections give me a sense of belonging, corruption in these type of management is present but it s a far cry from the legal corruption created by UEFa and EPL without forgetting the impact of football manager Qatar Saint German.
Allowing crooks and foreign owners with questionable wealth who care more about wasting their money rather than making profit to buy teams in the premier league added to the allure of the league. That's the key for me
One thing that is being forgotten is that the broadcast revenue is better split in the premier league when compared to pther leagues. Yes the overall contracts and amount of revenue is probbaly higher than other leagues, but if you compare it to la liga, they barely give teams outside the big 3 enough to spend on players. This summer, west ham nottingham forest, chelsea, man united, man city, arsenal, newcastle, leeds, and more all spent a huge amount of money. Whether it was due to player sales, promotion from championship, qualifying for ucl or w/e. You dont see teams in other leagues doing this, because the supposed giants of those leagues recieve a much much larger share of the pie of overseas broadcast revenue, since fans are usually tuning in mostly to see the psgs, real madrids, barcas and bayerns of the world. The premier league has a better money sharing method, which does help bring the lower teams up in a way. In la liga, half or more of the broadcast revenue goes to real and barca.
Juve, Inter, Milan, Roma and Napoli would bite your hand off to be in the prem.
It’s the American League – they’re nearly all American clubs and Americans know sport far far better than England
I live in a rural city in aus and can confirm that here friends and groups rarely talk about other leagues unless its in the champions league. Osscaionally real and barce or psg
Sport Journalists, Commentators pundits also did their part.
And the biggest factor was Sir Alex Ferguson
Its the best because the salaries are great and players especially the ones who were suffering , flock there to get money to support their families.
Finals between two English clubs in Champions League:
2008: MU vs Chelsea.
2019: Liverpool vs Tottenham.
2021: Chelsea vs Manchester City.
Finals between two Spanish clubs in Champions League:
2000: Real Madrid vs Valencia.
2014: Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid.
2016: Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid.
The biggest advantage for Premier League is there are now 5 different clubs that managed to reach the final during those special finals, except Arsenal, who were defeated by Barcelona in 2006. In La Liga, Real Madrid have always won all 3 Spanish UCL Finals.
Also, I would predict that the next two UCL Finals were:
2023: Manchester City vs Tottenham.
2024: Liverpool vs Manchester United.
PL games are more of ope. Play game less technique ad defenses don't know why still it's so overrated laliga is best
PL is overrated maybe english commentary is so good to here but players defense is so worse
It's the speed and physicality. Watching Spanish or Italian football seems slow, boring and a little soft in comparison.
A huge factor that perhaps was missed is the colonial era connections Britain has with many countries around the globe whose football fans follow the British game week in and week out and contribute to its unique global brand.
Considered the best league in europe, has been outplayed by la liga.
I think it's the english factor, americans speak english so watch the epl. the culture is relatable and we speak the language so we can watch the top pundits in england talking about the game, we can understand the players and the coaches. it's relatable to us compared to the other leagues.
Is a dope league with money out football that help a lot too
Apart from the foreign players and managers, there is nothing that great about the EPL. The English aspect of it are the worst things including the referees and the arrogance of the fans and pundits.
Lol. Shut up! You pair of clowns!
I don't like Premier, never I didn't like. I like much more serie A and Liga Spagnola
One thing is for sure it's not because of the English player's
the main argument for a long time was how competitive the league was. anyone could win it and it's obviously high quality. the thing is….in the last few years City are automatic favorites and have won most of the titles.
I strongly believes it has to do with the quality of the competition in the league. Other leagues only has 1 or 2 big teams that can compete. The Epl has a big 6. Also there are some big names in the league etc. Also the way it promoted very important
That's easy. A stream train of global billionaires looking for an outlet to wash their spare change. All legal in England. The EPL is no more than an ATM league for foreign owners. It's populated by foreign managers, coaches, players and financiers. Global money found a country willing to sell its soul, and England said yes.
Oil Money.
At least for the US, the broadcasting when NBCSN (shout out to Rebecca Lowe) took over that brought it to a new level and the glitz and glamour really elevated it compared to mediocre production of some of other leagues. It also helps england is a propaganda machine when it comes to hyping its own league and national team 😂 but it has backed it up in recent years
just ENGLISH language , helps it reach out to mass
Capitalism.
I dont like it anymore, same league winners last 5/6 years…
Gab n juls pl is not last five years so Liverpool and city didn't dominated it infect Liverpool only won once so stop baised towards pep n klopp. Bayern dominated Bundesliga,Barca and Madrid dominated la liga but none dominated PL , man u , arsenal, Chelsea and city dominated periodically but none through out PL . Second competitive is Italian league. Liverpool on what basis demanding more den other PL teams United i can understand still
It was always popular. Just before the prem they didn't realise the value. Itv and bbc had a cartel keeping domestic tv deals low, abroad rights were almost given away. Before heysel and english clubs getting banned. English clubs won the european cup (champions league) 6 years on the trott. Even with money now we're still playing catch up.
Reason why the Premier League is the most watched sports league the world above the Champions League, NBA, NFL and any other football League?
1. It is the fastest and most actioned packed football in the world.
2. It is the most athletic and physical league in the world, where referees allow more contact and blow the whistle less creating more free flowing games.
3. England is the home of football and also spread and started football over countries, so this gives the Premier League and English football a level of history and prestige that no other country can compete with.
4. The maximum wage that mean English football had a salary cap until the 1969 meaning star players stayed at their local clubs and where not stockpiled by 1 or 2 super clubs, creating multiple teams dynasties meaning the Premier League have more big clubs with big history than any of the other leagues, so multiple teams have huge fans based in England and around the world.
5. Diversity in the pitch and diversity off the pitch in the crowd that makes the Premier League more inclusive and appealing to different cultures. Scudamore said this was the Premier Leagues biggest advantage over other leagues. He said when you look at the crowd at Arsenal's stadium, you see every race, religion and creed. When you look at a crowd in Germany, you just see white Germans.
6. England had the first league that was globally popular due it's history, meaning English teams used to go on international tours in the 1950s meaning English teams have a global fanbases that are as much 8 or 9 generations deep.
7. Ultra foreign fans who live and die by the club, meaning mean.
8. Innovation and openness to new ideas. People forget the football was a million dollar sport before the Premier League. The Premier League with Sky was the first league to apply Americans sports marketing techniques to football. So names on the shirts, uniform league badges and branding, highlights of players set to cool music to hype players and games that is now youtube clips, CGI graphic packages, TV tactical analysis, David Beckham the first player to have a PR team and making more money off the pitch than he made on the pitch the protoype for Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar. The first league to see their TV rights collectively and sell them in foreign countries. And all this turned football into a billion dollar sport. Premier League became the first league to make more money from foreign TV rights than their domestic rights.
9. World class foreign coaches that raised levels of training, tactics and play making the league even more entertaining and appealing globally.
10. International investors from around the world, that turned the Premier League into an ideas exchange, giving English teams a level of professionalism off the pitch that is unmatched and international connections on every continent.
11. Foreign players who led to improved standards that raised the quality of English players.
All this led to the Premier League getting more TV money and made it biggest, most popular and richest league in the world.
Money😂 its literally the only reason