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Premier League just isn’t tops for the fans

CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE HAS MORE THRILLS

Chris Dunlavy

THE promised land. Isn’t that what the marketing men have brainwashed us into calling the Premier League?
For those who stand to line their pockets from image rights and bumper TV contracts, it certainly is a land of plenty.
Players, shareholders, agents and hangers-on; all of them have reason to cast a greedy eye upon football’s answer to Xanadu.
But what about the rest of us? What, exactly, does the Premier League promise the average supporter in the stand? Mediocrity. Boredom. Resentment. Disconnection. To follow a top-...

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