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Waltzing Along posted:So all the songs are to the tune of Sloop John B? Both of those teams have spent time outside of the top division although not since it became the Premier League. If for some reason their vast wealth wasn't enough one year and they finished in the bottom three they'd be relegated like anyone else.
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No, because the Champion's League is regional. There's one in Europe, one in Asia, in South America etc. (I think maybe called different things in some places.) The European one is the most famous and respected though because the biggest clubs play in it and it has the longest history. The actual world competition is the Club World Cup, which involves all the winners of the previous year's CLs. Ironically it's much less prestigious than winning the CL.
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Aug 18, 2017 07:35
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forkboy84 posted:No. the EPL is the top tier of the English football structure. Spain's biggest clubs play in the Spanish league, Germany's play in the Bundesliga, Italy's big teams play in Serie A, so on, so forth. No-one has fallen to the bottom of the pyramid without an external circumstance (like running out of money), but plenty of teams have fallen from the PL to League 2 which is the last tier of full-time professionals - most famously Portsmouth. The idea of "minor leagues" isn't really the same in football as it is for US sports. Leagues in smaller countries tend to end up with players leaving to go to one of the big leagues (England, Germany, Italy, Spain), but there's no formal system in place for that to exist. It's debatable whether the Premier League is even the top of the pile - it's the richest and most famous, and much more competitive in the sense that the bottom team in the PL is likely to be much better than the equivalent foreign team, but Spain or Germany tend to produce the outright best teams thanks to the status of Real/Barca and Bayern in their respective countries.
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Aug 19, 2017 06:57
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Waltzing Along posted:I thought EPL drew from all over the world. So the players are almost all English? No, most of the players are foreign.
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