[spireitematt]

I agree with you Pooch.

I dislike the Premier League and hate this franchise. The Premier League has been so poor for the last three years with the quality of play. This is how I see it you have a 3 horse race every season between Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal maybe 4 if you include Liverpool and mainly its Chelsea or City who can win the league because they spend more than anybody else. Then you've got the Top 4 teams who are happy at getting Top 4 because European football means more money and it means attracting the top world class players, well that's what people think and those teams are Arsenal, Liverpool and Man United now. Teams celebrate getting top 4 like they've won a trophy. Then you've got those teams like Stoke who are happy with just finishing mid-table every season and staying in the Premier League and then you've got those teams like QPR and Aston Villa who try and stay up every season and in my opinion I think it's sad.

I would like to see teams like West Brom and Stoke challenging for the title but financially its unrealistic unless they got a rich oil baron who would buy the club. Everyone says the Premier League is the best league in the World but I disagree its the best brand like Roy Keane says with the Prawn Sandwich brigade because true fans cannot afford to go to matches because it costs an arm and a leg to go watch a Premier League match. I think we have a crap England squad because British youth players aren't being given a chance and Premier League clubs are not bringing them through because they think its cheaper to buy a foreign experienced player than it is to buy an English player or bring any youth through and those youth players come to clubs like Chesterfield or go out the game altogether. Also there is no passion in some of the players maybe its due to them earning obscene amounts of money.

Look at the FA Cup this season little Bradford City went to Chelsea and caused the shock of the competition by beating Chelsea in their own backyard which shows that there isn't much difference between quality of players down the leagues.

Sky are milking the armchair fans who can't afford to go to games and there also milking Sky subscribers who don't even have the Sports channels to pay for the rights to show Premier League matches. The Premier League need to distribute the TV revenue money down the leagues down to Grassroots level like the Germans do but the Premier League clubs won't want that and the players won't want that because they'll want there TV appearance fees.

The reason why Spain and Germany have the best National teams is because there Government and there leagues put money into grassroots football where here in England we don't and that means we aren't bringing any up and coming players through the ranks. Every football fan can see it but those at the top of the FA are just ignoring the fact and instead are coming up with wacky ideas like putting Premier League B teams into the JPT or creating a League 3 which is harmful to clubs like ours but that doesn't matter if it kills off Football League clubs because they're more worried about the Premier League and the money at the top.