by Cocacolajojo1 » Sat Feb 28, 2015 3:20 pm
Well, there's a bit of a decline to be sure but I don't think it's that bad. In the last 10 finals, at least one English team has played and only three years ago Chelsea won it.
I think the answer is more complex: The English league is falling behind but not so much because it has experienced a decline but because some teams, primarly Barcelona, Bayern Munchen and Real Madrid, have developed to a completely new level by doing what they've always done, I.E. poaching other German and Spanish teams' best players. A task made much easier, especially in spain, by uneven tv money distribution and the general tanking of the SPanish economy and rich municipalities who have been able to throw economic weight behind these teams to keep them afloat. Also, doping.
IMO, if you want to "fix" this "problem", just give top teams in the English league an even bigger share of the tv earnings and presto.
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