Why the premier league is the best league in the world?

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The premier league is the top tier of English football. It is the elite league of England and is thought of as the best league in the world by a host of people and nations around the world due to its high competitiveness and the excitement around the premier league every time the league is played. The premier leagues season runs from august to may each year. They play 38 games each season usually playing one game a week but that can be changed due to a clubs other commitments. Each team plays each other twice throughout the season, once at home and once away from home. They play these games throughout Christmas and winter which is very much different to other major leagues around the world such as the Seria A in Italy and the La Liga Santander in Spain. These two leagues stop playing football at the start of December until after the New Year. This is to stop the pitch from deteriorating beyond repair midway through the season. This adds to the love of English football as it is played throughout the year and you don’t need to wait a month between games.

The premier league is the most watched footballing league in the world with a potential audience of around 4.7 billion people per week as the premier league is available in 643 million homes in the world. This is one of the reasons why the premier league is the world’s most profitable league in the world due to its high match-day ticket costs and its very high television revenue since both Sky TV and BT Sport payed large television fees for the right to show these games live on TV. 

Premier league clubs have also spent the most on transfers in the past couple of years. In the summer of 2016, premier league clubs spent 1 billion pounds on new players. This is another reason why the premier league is the most popular due to the high quality players on show every weekend. This generates hype around certain clubs and players which makes people want to watch these English clubs play every weekend.

Football in England

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Football is the worlds most popular sport. It is estimated that the football army is 250 million strong. the first game of contemporary football was played in 1863 in England. This happened after the rugby association branched off from football and this meant that they now had two separate committees. This allowed the football in England to blossom to the massive organisation the English FA is today.




The English FA is in charge of all footballing activities at a competitive level in England still to this day. They are the oldest national governing body of football in world football.






The FA were set up by what the English consider 'the father' of English football Ebenezer Morley in 1862. he came up with the idea of  ''organising'' football after he set up a football club in a public school. There were lots of disagreements about how the game should be played and he suggested that a rule book should be introduced like the MCC did with cricket, another popular sport in England.








These views were taken up at a meeting in London where twelve London clubs met up to form an association that will make certain rules a code that all football clubs will follow to make football played as fairly as possible. one of the major sticking points in some of these meetings to make some of these rules was the issue of hacking in the game of football. this rule was debated by lots of people who agreed and disagreed with the issue of hacking of players legs. after much debate, the first FA football match was played between London clubs Richmond and Barnes where they played out a 0-0 draw. this is considered the first competitive game of football in the history of football.








England is home to one of the most competitive leagues in the world. the premier league was first played in the 1992-1993 season when it replaced the old football division one. the premier league is considered the best league in the world due to the millions of people who watch the matches each weekend.

About me

Hi, My name is Cameron and this is my blog on the history of English football.