England s self proclaimed status of best league tournament is mare false. Highest # of players were from Bundes liga and Spanish league in SEMI s of the pinnacle of the football event. EPL superstar Lampard, Gerrard, Terry, A Cole were dispointed

EPL= foreign stars

I follow the EPL and can't wait for next season.
But I have to admit, who from the epl shined in the wc? Most of the players that shined at the wc were players outside from the epl. I only follow epl and was surprised to see so many players from elsewhere shine.

You look at the best ix and worst ix thread.... You won't see any epl players in the best ix teams listed by people. But you will see that about half of the players in the worst ix are from epl league.

Epl players that did well in the wc....
Tevez
Kuyt
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The EPL is NOT overated! You cannot judge the league just because the players didn't perform in the WC. Judge the league on competitions with other league. As you guys know, the EPL teams has prosper further in the Champions League than another other league this past decade

I don't think you can say the EPL is overrated due to englands performance. I mean really only 30% of the league is actually made up of english players. Not exactly the greatest indicator of english talent to say the least

Almost all the top flight clubs in the prem are doing what Inter are doing in the Lega Calcio. So, not over-rated, but they do need to foster English talents, or their WC dreams could never turn into reality anytime soon.
Italy, maybe after the fall of Inter's domination, or.... Put it like this: after the revival of Milan and Juve could bounce back, but England?
This is a serious issue, to be real

You can't talk about foreign players in the premier league when the best players in spain are from argentina and portugal, the best players in germany are from holland and france. The best team in italy only has 2 italian players in their first team. While we all know the best player in england is from where.... England.
The premier league is superior to all other leagues even if we did no do well in the champions league, everyone has a bad day. We have seen it time and time again where players flop in england and turn stars in spain or players are stars in spain and flop in the premier league. Forlan scored 17 goals in 3 seasons at united, but went to spain and can't stop scoring. Ronaldo the best player in the world had to work for his goals in england but in spain he scored when ever he feels like. Kanoute was a flop in england and went to spain and turn a star. Robinho, shevchanko, crespo, veron and many others we stars and came to england and flopped big time.
This simply shows that the premier league is at a higher level

Premier league might not be the best league in the world but it is definitely the most competitive in the world. We have 6 teams which would compete at the top in any other league. Same can't be said for the likes of Mallorca, Villareal, Sampodoria. I guess the league just had a bad year in terms of European competitions last season. Considering the last 5 years of champions league, the clubs from EPL were right up there till the end of competition. I also think the gulf between the top 6 has reduced to a greater extent so there are atleast 6 teams which can win the title

Premier League has the best football to watch just because any team can beat anyone. Considering 1st 2 6th place was close and the bottom half were like 4points diffence shows how close the league is.

Saying how its all oversea players yet Spain there biggest stars are from Argentina and Portugal. So you can't really claim that England don't have stars in the leauge

Currently Serie A is the best League in the world. EPL is just competitive which does not equal best league. And in some cases it is overrated people seem to think just because two teams compete and they draw the match or something of the sort even if one team is at the top and one at the bottom then that qualifies as the best league. Just like every sport.... Whoever comes out on top at the end of every season is the best which once again is not the EPL

If the Premier League ran the National teams instead of the FA things would be a lot more streamlined. As it is right now the FA is a silly circus of dignitaries and status seekers who have little interest in the actual game and are more concerned with the politics and traditions of the game over the teams success.

So many things went wrong this year before the team even got to South Africa between key injuries and scandal that its easy to say they're over-rated but in fact this team was doomed from the start. Every single player England brought to South Africa plays a key role for their Club and I think calling them over rated is a stretch.

I refer to the ongoing thread by Perrygarl "England can't win won't win" Link: www.footytube.com/forums/footytube-blog/england-ca...

This is not even close to a straight comparison considering if you took the best XI from each league (not country) they would definitely be more competitive (though I doubt they would beat La Liga's best XI). More than that you could probably furnish more world-class teams from the EPL than any other league as you went down the list from 1st XI to 2nd XI etc. Finally it's a more competitive league, like many people have said, with 6 top quality teams. England fails consistently because of coaching and tactics in my opinion

I don't think the strength of a league has anything to do with how well your national team performs. EPL has huge amounts of foreign players which make it a lot more competitive, many of the teams have large amounts of cash for buying good players and a lot of team have a good scouting system. Imo EPL is the strongest in the world by far.

Just because england like france shouldnt be mentioned in the same sentence and success and team doesn't mean the epl is overrated

I heard theres a new rule for the EPL that teams have to have less foreign players in their team, is this true?

I'm not English, my league is french ligue 1, but I watch EPL, la liga, bundesliga, la calcio and I still believe the strongest championship is the english one. And I really don't think it will sternly change soon, seeing clubs like Tottenham, ManCity, Aston Villa or Everton rising. But however, the English national squad doesn't represent the EPL and nations & clubs are really 2 different things nowadays.
And maybe some people in England, including the players forgot that WC is still a step over EPL...