Best league in the world?

[persian boy]

Sir Alex Ferguson claims that the Premier League is "the best in Europe" after all four sides reached the Champions League quarterfinals.

England has become the first country to have four teams in the last eight of the Champions League after Liverpool defeated Inter Milan in Italy to join Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea in Friday's draw.

Ferguson told MUTV: "The Premier League is the strongest in Europe.

"For a spell it was the Spanish league - I remember about seven or eight years ago they had three teams in the semi-finals.

"Spanish football was really strong but I think the English game has now reached that level.

"We now have a 40% chance of being drawn against an English team, which is a measure of the quality of this division."

United have never experienced an all-English tie in the Champions League but the manager is relaxed about that possible scenario.

He said: "Once the format changed and three or four teams from each country were allowed into the competition, it was inevitable that they would face each other at some point.

"So I am always geared to playing against an English team. It doesn't matter who we get in the quarter-finals.

"Knowing who you'll get in the semi-finals as well is an incentive, but we'll take what we get."

I agree with him really, English clubs are very consistent in Champions League, for the last 3 tournaments, an English club has been in the final
and this year half the teams left are english, with 2 of the last 4 being weak clubs (fener and schalke)

[1Heesham1]

we all ready knew that.... teams in the final stages of CL in recent years have been mostly english... so it proves the leagues superiority

[The-Red]

actually except the last few years, english teams haven't done that well in europe...also, the competitivness of the league says alot about its quality and since in england there is a big gap between the top 4 and the rest usually, it really negates Firgusen's argument. I do agree tho that the EPL is the most entertaining league, however, qualitywise, the Spanish league I would think will rank higher than the EPL.

[Suprah]

Well with Bolton Wanderers (relegation threatened this season) managing to overcoming Atletico Madrid (top 4 in La Liga) in 180 minutes of football in the UEFA Cup recently that does mean something doesnt it for teams outside the Top 4.

[mkbf2]

Why IPL of course

No definitely is the EPL, just look at the CL

[CanadianEh]

yea EPL looks good right now.... but i still disagree that it is the best league in the world

again, just look at the table and compare it to La Liga

look at the line-ups of barcelona and real madrid.. the best teams in the EPL have a few really good players nd then they build on top of that.. barcelona has a line-up that leaves room for NOBODY!! Barcelona is soo good that theyre driving ronaldinho away because he's being outperformed!!

and again look at the gaps... the premiership comes down to the same 4 teams every year... with another team coming and giving liverpool trouble.. exactly the same EVERY year

la liga has plenty of midtable competition who actually COMPETE with teams like barcelona and real madrid.. take any midtable team from england and put them up against barca and they would get SMASHED

[Obteene]

EPL teams, As ive noticed myself lately, just outright Sh!t on other european league teams. Ill give you guys several examples:
The great Intermilan lost 2-0 at home to Liverpool
Arsenal 2-0 Ac Milan
Man U beat Lyon 1-0
Man u 4- 0 Dynamo Kiev
there have also been outlandish 5-0, 6-1, and 8-0 wins by EPL team against other european league leaders.

[persian boy]

^^ Chelsea 3 Olympiacos 0

[EKBATAN]

noooooo way english league is the best

all those long balls and open spaces....look at what happened to henry when he went to spain or look at how ronaldo was useless in their recent 3-1 loss to Italy.


Just because A FEW teams from a league play good, it doesnt qualify the WHOLE league as the best. If you're going by champions league stats, then Italian leagues have done the best overall!
England is just more fun to watch cuz of open spaces and its fast paced. But that only happens when the game has a nice flow. Most EPL games are annoying cuz the ball just bounces around and leads to no where.




Bottom line...you cant say any league is the best...you have the top 3; italy, england and spain, then germany is 4th...in all those leauge you have about 3 dominant teams that always do good. Period!

[Kasra.]

Forget about EPL, Calcio, Primera Division, Bundesliga or what ever,,,

Eshgh faghat IPL!!

[roy]

noooooo way english league is the best

all those long balls and open spaces....look at what happened to henry when he went to spain or look at how ronaldo was useless in their recent 3-1 loss to Italy.


Just because A FEW teams from a league play good, it doesnt qualify the WHOLE league as the best. If you're going by champions league stats, then Italian leagues have done the best overall!
England is just more fun to watch cuz of open spaces and its fast paced. But that only happens when the game has a nice flow. Most EPL games are annoying cuz the ball just bounces around and leads to no where.




Bottom line...you cant say any league is the best...you have the top 3; italy, england and spain, then germany is 4th...in all those leauge you have about 3 dominant teams that always do good. Period!

Italy: is, was, always will be the best.

[Obteene]

IPL with its fake unconscious goalies (pegah ), zamine khaki, and grenades being thrown onto the field

[Obteene]

Italy: is, was, always will be the best.

Inter 0, Liverpool 2.....at Inter's field , Arsenal 2, AC Milan 0

[PFS]

epl best in the world this season they are really consistance

congrats to all epl supporters

[futbol>>>IRAN]

lol c'mon guys you are just singing for the moment just like how you were last year! And no offence but the majority of you who say that epl is the best are either bias or not know much about football.

last year when 3 of the 4 semi finalists of the CL were english people on pfdc voted epl as the best league in the world even though none of them managed to win it(lol) and even though the previous year spanish teams won the CL and UEFA Cup beating english teams in both of the finals. and last season a spanish team won the uefa cup again for the second consecutive time in a all spanish final.

just because their big four teams have been doing well in the last 3 years doesn't make it the best.

The EPL is technically and tactically behind Spain and Italy and that is why most south americans play there and not in england. The only reason there are more south american players playing in epl is because of the foreign coaches that like to play a certain style especially in europe. For eg Benitez, previously mourinho , and to a lesser extent arsene.

But if you want to look at history Spainish teams have done the best in europe and will continue to dominate.