I agree that single games don't mean much. But consistent performances definitely do.
This never made sense to me. No marketing in the world is better than Ronaldo / Neymar / Messi / Suarez.
What a silly and archaic description of La Liga. You clearly dont watch much of it.
Nah, La Liga should idealistically be the best marketed by virtue of having the best players and quality. But the correlation between hype and quality is not always a linear one. The PL programming is comfortably the best by miles. I think it's partly because English is the "global language" and hence that makes anything American or English more easily relatable for those from other countries. And then there is of course how well you brand the league. Not to mention the pace of the league also leads to a lot of excitement.
This is definitely true. Not sure it completely translates to this comparison as the PL is a genuinely brilliant league.
But it's not the most popular and most watched game though? I even remember Chelsea v City having the biggest audience a few season back. La Liga suddenly doesn't produce more broadcasters for two games a season. That's what holds them back from having that mantle.
Erm, no?
What was the numbers then? Has it been disproved?
There were many articles that disproved it back then. The real numbers are impossible to know, simply cause there is no way of finding it.
I found this article: http://www.givemesport.com/543088-d...attract-a-bigger-audience-than-the-super-bowl. Not sure about the validity of all numbers but there are not any accurate sources for PL viewing figures. It's definitely far more than any other league but don't think it's much above El Clasico.
He was incredible in his last season in France (top assister in Europe, I think), then in his first season in England, then on the big stage at the Euros.
Ah, yeah. De Bruyne had more assists that season. But Payet was the top chance creator in Europe. 133 chances created. De Bruyne was second with 111. Nobody else got into triple figures. Whichever way you look at it, the guy was immense that year for Marseille.
- that PL is way better (all from northern Spain, no Real or Barca fans). Probably having access to the best covering and analysis of their own league, they said that apart from El Classico, there are barely watchable games. They hate the playacting and whining in this league, alongside interruptions every other minute. They told me they follow the PL way more, because it's more exciting.Funny thing that even a lot of Spaniards think that PL is better then La Liga. The other day i was in an Erasmus party, speaking with a bunch (around 10) football enthusiastic Spaniards, and they all agreed - amazingly
Seems like most people here who are hyping this league so much never watch any league games, and gather all their "knowledge" from some Europa league games, or statistics. Seems like mostly frustrated fans, who are jealous that the PL steals their leagues best players every year.
If you'd seriously watch their league games, and i mean not El Classico, but some random game, they are mostly boring to death. I am watching random games of La Liga for years (well not completely random, but games i hope will turn out interesting), and 90% of them are low on quality and boring. Of course there is the odd exciting game, like Las Palmas against Granada last week, but that's surely not representative of the whole league. Some people here stating about the Tottenham against Liverpool game beeing so low on quality ... one game. Well, Vigo against Real Madrid was even worse, no team could even put 5 passes together without making mistakes. Taking one, or even a few games will never be representative. If you watch a considerable amount of games, a 100 or more over a few years, then you have a fairly represenative amount of games. And in my opinion, 90 of those 100 games in La Liga are no joy to watch. In the PL more then 50% of the live games i watch are really enjoying and exciting, and that's the reason i like this league the most, nothing else. In the PL almost every team has 2 or 3 brilliant players, who are a joy to watch, who excite people in a game. In La Liga there are maybe 6 or 7 of those teams.
And it's probably the same for a billion people on our planet, at least that's what the viewing figures tell us.
Always get a chuckle when the EPL fans slag all the other leagues and call them shit, boring etc, which is their opinion obviously. However if you look at all the games that the EPL has shown on TV so far this year, it's embarrassing to witness how poor they've been on the whole for the apparent best league in the world, most exciting and so on....
