Just watching Napoli v Inter Milan and i have to say its the most boring league in the world Seria A, i watch football from all over the globe and this crap makes Brazilian football look rapid, talk about dis-interested players interested in there pay cheque.

Completely agree, compare that with the Spanish game that was on the other channel and its worlds aware.

I can remember when I talian football first came on channel 4 and I watched the first 6 games. Obviously their standard of football is still exactly the same now as it was then -mind numbingly boring

Yeah the Barca game was brilliant, i take my hat off to atl. Madrid Barca haven't been beaten for something like 22 games going well into last year.

Being a Huge Inter Milan fan myself i have to disagree..But each to their own.
I personally think premiership football is rubbish. I mean, Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea. Noone can really push there way to the top. Money money money. I like Italian football for the entertainment factor :) Sorry to disagree.

Being a Huge Inter Milan fan myself i have to disagree..But each to their own.
I personally think premiership football is rubbish. I mean, Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea. Noone can really push there way to the top. Money money money. I like Italian football for the entertainment factor :) Sorry to disagree.

There was no entertainment factor last night watching Napoli v Inter, the pair of them gave the ball away constantly and were just borinnnggggggggggggg :o

I'm not saying every game is full of fun and has IT..whatever IT is..but its better than Watching Man U and something or other..because its kind of predictable...Although i do admire your opinion..Even if its wrong lol..Joke :) x

Doesn't this depend on what you're looking for? The quality of footballing skill on show is one thing; the interest in a given league is quite another. In a league where only one team ever had any chance of winning anything, I don't think I would ever bother to watch a game. Where only two teams ... well, I don't ever bother watching Scottish football, or Spanish.

Sadly, the English league is starting to go the same way - In three of the last four seasons, Man Utd and Chelsea have filled the top two spots, and Liverpool and Arsenal the next two; in the fourth, Liverpool displaced Chelsea but nothing else changed. It's quite conceivable that for the next five, ten, fifteen years in a row, the same top two and the same second two will sit locked in place.

To most people, that's boring; and boring is not a good thing for a sport, no matter how high the technical skill of the competitors.

Being a Huge Inter Milan fan myself i have to disagree..But each to their own.
I personally think premiership football is rubbish. I mean, Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea. Noone can really push there way to the top. Money money money. I like Italian football for the entertainment factor :) Sorry to disagree.

How do you class entertainment though. Passing side to side all game and most games with only 2 goals in it. I dont call that entertainment

Lets see how the cream of Italy fairs against the cream of England tonight eh.....

3-2 to the cream of England
Some good footy played by duckmouth (Ronaldinhio) but United came out on top in the end. beckham was anonymous

Excellent article by Patrick Barclay in the Times the other day.

Bundesliga model just the ticket

The annual report of the Bundesliga makes a reassuring read. The English elite division may be a den of profligacy, greed, debt and exploitation — and that is just to consider Manchester United and Portsmouth — but the Germans exude prudence and care.

The total debt of all 36 clubs, including those of Bundesliga 2, is about £600 million, a figure that dismayed United supporters will recognise as being £125 million short of their club’s burden. Not that the Germans are especially proud of it. Their crowing is confined to a little table showing their admission prices to be the lowest among the top five divisions in Europe.

Guess whose stadiums are the most expensive to enter. Correct: it costs £37.30 on average to watch the Barclays Premier League. The Bundesliga charges less than half that. Some would consider it about half as entertaining, but an average attendance of 41,904, compared with the Premier League’s 35,592, suggests that the Germans must be doing something right.

This is not to deny that some of their administrators feel overregulated, hemmed in by a variety of restrictions such as the one dictating that every minute of every match played by the national team — home or away — must be shown live on free-to-view television. But I’d like to level up the playing field by having the same thing here.

Meanwhile, it is reported that the Premier League’s next television deal is expected to raise more than £1 billion a year, or £50 million a club. How exciting! Even more money to waste on players’ wages and agents’ commissions, and, as debts soar, fees and interest charges to accountants and bankers.

The only hope of an end to this abuse of capitalism resides in Uefa’s efforts to devise a system under which book-balancing is a prerequisite for participation in European competition. I will believe this when I see it. At present, ideas are being shuffled around in private and anyone who has studied football administration can be confident they will be bad ones. It would be far simpler if every club joined the Bundesliga.

Being a Huge Inter Milan fan myself i have to disagree..But each to their own.
I personally think premiership football is rubbish. I mean, Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea. Noone can really push there way to the top. Money money money. I like Italian football for the entertainment factor :) Sorry to disagree.

Unlike Italian football where there's a veritable dirth of challengers for the championship...

Inter Milan are on for a 5th consecutive title.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_football_champions

The best of the high profile league's - best meaning most open - is surely the Bundesliga? Four different winners in the last six seasons, and often goes down to the wire with several teams still in contention.

Excellent article by Patrick Barclay in the Times the other day.

Meanwhile, it is reported that the Premier League’s next television deal is expected to raise more than £1 billion a year, or £50 million a club. How exciting! Even more money to waste on players’ wages and agents’ commissions, and, as debts soar, fees and interest charges to accountants and bankers.[/B]

And herein lies the most salient point.

Unless you manage the windfall of money in the Premiership there is a danger of simply overspending on hyperinflated fees.

It would be like me tripling my wages and then buying a house in Mayfair and shopping at Harrods. If I still have the same, or indeed less, disposable income than when I was on a lesser wage, the notion of being better off is completely abstract.

The fact so many clubs operate in debt after ejaculating 12 months earlier over their "£50m payday" speaks volumes of the reckless myopic attitude that is wrecking top flight football.

And herein lies the most salient point.

Unless you manage the windfall of money in the Premiership there is a danger of simply overspending on hyperinflated fees.



Unfortunately, the other salient point is that English clubs are reaching Champions' League finals, but German clubs are not.

Unfortunately, the other salient point is that English clubs are reaching Champions' League finals, but German clubs are not.

Your point being?

Your point being?

My point being that the high-spending model actually does bring in success. The Bundesliga model does not.

Why would the top four clubs have any interest whatsoever in cutting their wage bill? They'd be more likely to abandon the Premiersip altogether and join a European super league.

Lol for the only time in my life i am glad that Man U kicked AC's arse...but i kinda like the italian football. Knowing the players and there "game personalitys"..even the lil things they do are quiet funny..
To each there own i suppose...and if you like british/spanish/italian/french footbll then thats good. But football in general is good. I will watch any football game..Even if i hate the team..just because i like football.
:) xx