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Easily the two best leagues in the world with the best teams in the world as well. The biggest debate is which league is better?
The reason why it's a debate is because it's tough on how to rank it. For example, do you rank it by excitement? IF so, then it's hard to argue against the BPL being the best league in the world. Do you rank it on quality? If so, the good old debate on which teams are better come into it.
Excitement - The BPL is a much better league in terms of excitement. You can have Manchester United be on a 25 match unbeaten run playing amazing football turn up at Wigan -- relegation contenders -- and lose easily 2-0. Why? Because it's the BPL, the home of unpredictable football. Already we've had Man City struggle to beat Southampton and QPR at home, both of those are relegation contenders. We've had United lose to Everton -- all be it harder, it's still a shock -- away from home and then struggle to beat Southampton away, and won against Fulham 3-2. Goals galore. That's what the BPL is about, goals goals goals.
Quality - Well La Liga has the two best teams in the world by far, Real Madrid and Barcelona. The reason why it's not as exciting is because you can pretty much guarantee those two winning every week, the only unpredictable games are the El Classicos -- the most watched football games on TV (ruling out finals and world cups) -- and sometimes the Real Madrid vs Valencia games away from home and such, but most of the time you're looking at those top two teams winning. Those two teams both have the best players in the world. If you made a World 11 team, most of them would be Real Madrid/Barcelona players.
Furthermore, the playing quality is different in Spain. In the BPL, there's a lot of long balls, crosses, rough tackles and big clearances. That's the epitome of English football. Fair enough it's changing now with United, City, Chelsea and Arsenal playing nice flowing passing football, but all of those teams sometimes have to change their styles to adapt to the teams in the league. Where as in La Liga (and Spain as a whole), the football quality is so much higher and more enjoyable to watch. The quick short passes, the runs, the skill, it's just breathtaking sometimes and it's the future of football. The BPL is evolving into a La Liga style league, where football is much more possession orientated but it's still not there.
The question is, what would happen when La Liga teams who are relegation contenders go up against BPL teams who are relegation contenders? That's the best way of judging the football quality, and we just don't know because neither of those sets of teams are in European football competitions, meaning they never face each other. What we do know is Atletico Madrid -- a team based around trying to get 4th in La Liga -- smashed the European Champions Chelsea (London based team) 4-1. They could have just had an off day which is my theory, or it could have been a symbol of the difference in quality.
Either way, it's your choice what league is better, you choose
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Personally, I'm a bigger fan of the BPL because of the excitement. People can say I'm being bias because I live in the UK, well I'm not as I'm half Spanish so that shouldn't have anything to do with it. The league is far more exciting, but the quality of football is sometimes not. Playing away at Stoke and seeing constant long throw ins into the box so they can get scrambles and knock-downs is depressingly bad. But watching Wigan trash Chelsea or anything similar is fantastic viewing as a neutral. More so than not the games are high-scoring games for both teams. Not 6-0's and such, but more so 4-3's and stuff like that.
The reason why it's a debate is because it's tough on how to rank it. For example, do you rank it by excitement? IF so, then it's hard to argue against the BPL being the best league in the world. Do you rank it on quality? If so, the good old debate on which teams are better come into it.
Excitement - The BPL is a much better league in terms of excitement. You can have Manchester United be on a 25 match unbeaten run playing amazing football turn up at Wigan -- relegation contenders -- and lose easily 2-0. Why? Because it's the BPL, the home of unpredictable football. Already we've had Man City struggle to beat Southampton and QPR at home, both of those are relegation contenders. We've had United lose to Everton -- all be it harder, it's still a shock -- away from home and then struggle to beat Southampton away, and won against Fulham 3-2. Goals galore. That's what the BPL is about, goals goals goals.
Quality - Well La Liga has the two best teams in the world by far, Real Madrid and Barcelona. The reason why it's not as exciting is because you can pretty much guarantee those two winning every week, the only unpredictable games are the El Classicos -- the most watched football games on TV (ruling out finals and world cups) -- and sometimes the Real Madrid vs Valencia games away from home and such, but most of the time you're looking at those top two teams winning. Those two teams both have the best players in the world. If you made a World 11 team, most of them would be Real Madrid/Barcelona players.
Furthermore, the playing quality is different in Spain. In the BPL, there's a lot of long balls, crosses, rough tackles and big clearances. That's the epitome of English football. Fair enough it's changing now with United, City, Chelsea and Arsenal playing nice flowing passing football, but all of those teams sometimes have to change their styles to adapt to the teams in the league. Where as in La Liga (and Spain as a whole), the football quality is so much higher and more enjoyable to watch. The quick short passes, the runs, the skill, it's just breathtaking sometimes and it's the future of football. The BPL is evolving into a La Liga style league, where football is much more possession orientated but it's still not there.
The question is, what would happen when La Liga teams who are relegation contenders go up against BPL teams who are relegation contenders? That's the best way of judging the football quality, and we just don't know because neither of those sets of teams are in European football competitions, meaning they never face each other. What we do know is Atletico Madrid -- a team based around trying to get 4th in La Liga -- smashed the European Champions Chelsea (London based team) 4-1. They could have just had an off day which is my theory, or it could have been a symbol of the difference in quality.
Either way, it's your choice what league is better, you choose
.Personally, I'm a bigger fan of the BPL because of the excitement. People can say I'm being bias because I live in the UK, well I'm not as I'm half Spanish so that shouldn't have anything to do with it. The league is far more exciting, but the quality of football is sometimes not. Playing away at Stoke and seeing constant long throw ins into the box so they can get scrambles and knock-downs is depressingly bad. But watching Wigan trash Chelsea or anything similar is fantastic viewing as a neutral. More so than not the games are high-scoring games for both teams. Not 6-0's and such, but more so 4-3's and stuff like that.
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