Most predictable league in Europe

Most predictable league in Europe

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LotusOmega375D

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7,761 posts

155 months

Thursday 29th August 2013
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Apart from Celtic and Rangers, no other club has won the Scottish league title since Aberdeen in 1984-1985. That's 29 seasons ago! You can understand why the other clubs in Scotland are so poorly supported. With Rangers' enforced absence for this and next season at least, will any of the other sides manage to take advantage of this temporary weakening of the competition and break the Old Firm stranglehold before Rangers return to the top-flight?

Just to put this into perspective, the major European leagues have had the following number of different winners during those 29 years:

England: 8
Spain: 5
Italy: 7
Germany: 6
France: 10

Puggit

48,545 posts

250 months

Thursday 29th August 2013
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I'd call them all predictable to a certain extent!

The Championship is the place for fun yes

ellroy

7,099 posts

227 months

Thursday 29th August 2013
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I'd be more interested in seeing the figures since the champions league has been in existance.

Some leagues would make the Scots look positively exciting!

And I strongly suspect things will continue to get worse.

RobGT81

5,229 posts

188 months

Thursday 29th August 2013
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Puggit said:
The Championship is the place for fun yes

It must be the toughest league in the world?

ImDesigner

1,959 posts

196 months

Friday 30th August 2013
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RobGT81 said:
Puggit said:
The Championship is the place for fun yes

It must be the toughest league in the world?
And what a superb league it is!

skahigh

2,023 posts

133 months

Friday 30th August 2013
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ImDesigner said:
RobGT81 said:
Puggit said:
The Championship is the place for fun yes

It must be the toughest league in the world?
And what a superb league it is!
Agree with this, I can sit down and watch a game between two championship teams I have no affiliation with and really enjoy the show because the quality is high and they tend to really go after each other. Put almost any PL game on and I will generally cry myself to sleep through boredom.

I think the main reason is that PL teams tend to play a much more patient slow approach style of football which leads to very little goalmouth action. I also think this is the reason newly promoted clubs tend to surprise a few teams, they come up with an energy and aggression that established teams cant match.

BMRuss

1,547 posts

192 months

Friday 30th August 2013
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Puggit said:
The Championship is the place for fun yes
Yep, agreed, I will be watching Leeds v QPR tomorrow on Sky sports, come on you R's! biggrin

Looking forward to beating Watford too this season wink

extraT

1,782 posts

152 months

Friday 30th August 2013
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Before I opened this thread my first thoughts were The Premier League's of Spain and Scotland.

extraT

1,782 posts

152 months

Friday 30th August 2013
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Before I opened this thread my first thoughts were The Premier League's of Spain and Scotland.