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Originally Posted by troutman
Any chance it won't be the Big 4?
I like football, but how do fans of all the other teams justify supporting a league that only has 4 competitive teams? The rest are pretty much development squads for the big 4 now, and with UEFA $ getting so big, the problem just perpetuates itself.
The concept would be really foreign in Europe, but would they ever introduce salary caps, revenue sharing or amateur drafts?
Should the fans of all the other teams boycott EPL until the playing field is level? Would you follow an NHL where NYR, DET, TOR and COL fill out the top 4 every year? I don't think we would stand for this in North America.
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They dont want a level playing field. People are fanatical about their teams regardless of if their competitive or not and love it when the big boys come to town. Every soccer league has a BIG 3 or 4 and it's still the most watched sport in the world.
We do stand for it in North America. We followed the NHL back when the habs, islanders and oilers were the only cup winners in 13 years didn't we? Bulls? Lakers? Yankees? Dodgers? 49ers? Cowboys? Patriots? and maybe Colts?
The more money a European league makes, the more the other teams will spend money to catch up raising the overall level of the league. You have to remember that in North America, NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL are monopolies. The only leagues of it's kind. In soccer.. you have 100 leagues competing with each other. 10 years ago, Serie A as a whole was the big spender. Now it's pretty far behind EPL and La Liga.