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Thats a lot of information to fit into a reply but I'll say some stuff and take it from there. The Premier (no e) League is the top flight of football in England. Existing in its current form since 1992, it was previously known as the First Division until some enterprising club owners decided to break away and form their own league to take advantage of the first of many TV broadcast deals, which helped the PL become the bloated lumbering monstrosity it is today along with unfathomably vast sums of petrodollars injected by variously Russian, Arab and Chinese billionaires. Scotland and Ireland have their own seperate domestic leagues, but Wales also sometimes manage to get a team or two into the PL (Swansea, also Cardiff in some recent years) because they didnt establish their own domestic league until after several Welsh sides were already competing in the top flight of the English league. Here's the table from the start of this season:  Consistent top-half teams are Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, and Chelsea who are last years winners. Newcastle United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Huddersfield Town have entered as the top 3 promoted teams from the Championship, which is the next league down (Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull were sent down). All the others are usually mid-table finishers. Promotion and relegation between leagues varies a little as the league sizes differ slightly, but generally speaking the top 2/3 get automatic promotion, with the next 3/4 entering playoffs with the winner securing the last promotion spot. Similarly the bottom 3/4 depending on the league will be relegated to the division below for the next season. Its worth remembering that most major metropolitan cities here can field 3+ major sides and due to proximity the rivalry between fanbases gets intense, usually resulting in nothing more than mocking songs and 'banter' but sometimes resulting in the violence that gets widely reported by media outlets. With that said its far from the Mad Max hellscape it sometimes get portrayed as and a day out at the football is still very much a family event (more so in lower leagues now, partly due to some insane pricing structures by the top flight teams, but thats a whole big reply of its own). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAU4hCBilbI kecske fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Aug 15, 2017 |
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Points are all, so although unlikely its possible yes. Manchester City are a huge force now since being bought out by Emirati oil barons in 2008 and won the league in 11/12 and 13/14 after rising up from the Third Division, proving that anything is possible if you have Scrooge McDuck levels of finances to pour into a club.
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