Thursday, 11 August 2016

La Liga? First in the league? Why is this the season for both passionate embrace

It has already begun.

"I can not believe that people spend their sor'a room," complained one of them agreement, another nod, muttering hoarsely .. "Absolute Bollocks"

Look at it back in an endangered smile on his face, was loving the third there. "You're just upset that bird my parents like yours more pasta," he said dryly.

To Jürgen Klopp, Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho to be fair, not all the words that they used when they stopped again at the arrival of Paul Pogba from Manchester United. but you can also have been; that is essentially what they said, and it is the soap opera that is the Premier League.

Currently, feels the first division of England, as if he is put in overdrive mode. The influx of mega-managers, driven more personality than perhaps ever before; massive spending gave a sumptuous feel; Pogba Hollywoodish arrival in the States was a cultural freshness.

This is modern football, they say. However, it is not everywhere.

In Spain he has been at the time the league around compared very quiet. Big clubs are extremely stable, while at the same time, the list of new shiny trading is cut off, the numbers will not converge as small planet, and there has been little fighting between the usual sides.

For the league shortly, but "the" will be so different.

And that's the point: The extreme contrast between these compounds will make next season for a rich cocktail of football fans.

This is the time in order to embrace both, if you have a special kind of new side of football - can put fans.


This fandom is especially difficult to get your head around.

"Boring! Not competitive! League Two Team!" Call aside. "Garbage ball! Over- hyped crap!" Will call you back from the other side.

This was the argument is still there, only the smallest timer need to burst into life. In each position, it may be a small degree of truth in the midst of irrational noise, but that's boring anyway; bemusing also.

If leagues expand fandom as a whole? If it was necessary to constantly promote a link instead of a team and therefore completely reject the other?

If they "Viva la Premier League" against "Viva La Liga"?

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This phenomenon is limited to these two, but is one of the first departments of England and Spain roared this strange rivalry louder. Premier League followers defects League organization and comparative inequality down; La Liga Fans Mock egoism in the Premier League, denigrate their perceived technical limits with a kind of snobbery pure football.

Among them they are not interesting and important discussions on the strengths and weaknesses to have any, and on the causes of the advantage in the area of one over the other at certain times.

Instead called ridiculous rules, and as is the case made by the joy of both leagues will be lost as a combination.

For the viewer, these divisions can for the sport complement each be in our endless thirst. Taste, football, environment, the differences are so great that the immersion in the two is a rewarding experience, a fun thanks to the variety.

And this season, contrast feels bigger than it has for a while.


The campaign in the Premier League is looming probably the most anticipated, has occurred in recent years. This is partly due to the type of football we can expect what should be the best it has been for some time, but is also strongly driven by personalities.

This will be against Mourinho vs vs vs vs Antonio Conte Klopp Wenger vs Mauricio Pochettino Claudio Ranieri the season Pep Guardiola. For the man on his couch, not the players equally important? (The answer should be, but often do not seem to be sufficiently clear.)

Certainly Guardiola and Conte, in particular, bring a sense of elegance, what they do, but you can see where there is the more general question of the Premier League now leads: When push Arsène Joseph? Joseph step engages in response to you-know-gesture?

Is (a number of men) and the other (some men) shake hands?

Tony Pulis is Klopp finger in the eye with the cap?

If Mourinho Pep harassment starts?

How many minutes before Pep cracks, breaks his silence their corner to fight?

Alan Pardew who transgress against this time, apart from the many dance schools across South East London?

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At the top? Probably. But what football should be convincing, it is now a part of the Premier League. Auto masses inflame further. And as a strange kind of guilty pleasure, it's fun darn the worldwide popularity of the league says it is.

enjoy and laugh together.

And if she does, enjoy the different league.

As the Premier League, La Liga no stranger tragedy. Spain, of course, is where soccer and politics gather more than they do elsewhere; where the greatest rivalry in the world; where four newspapers head to head two on each side are going to be the child in a fight.

It's a world, led by Real Madrid against Barcelona and everything that comes with it, but the feeling around it's different than it. In other years

Mourinho defines disabled against Guardiola era Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry that is the League period in a bit. Although Barcelona manager Luis Enrique with members of the press can be complicated, do not cause rivals. At Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane is not a single mistake and not in press conferences. And his first challenger, Diego Simeone at Atletico Madrid will not rise over time, or the maintenance of a battle that is not football.

"From game to game," he said repeatedly.

Of course there will be more eager to make things happen, but before 2016-17, the expectation of the League almost exclusively surrounds at their centers wider audience in football; Football for the good of football.

This experience will stand on the summit are available, where the installed product squad unsurpassed produce in the field, but is to be elsewhere, even for the fan.

What will be in 2016-17 next league?

Saturday night, after Jose vs Pep and Jose against the world, you can turn to Spain and sat in Villarreal vs Las Palmas-two clubs to places most have never been; Clubs surrounded by no drama, but they have a passionate support; Clubs some of the finest football facilities in Europe; Clubs that produce a kit off for occasions when they play against each other.

Or you might Granada vs Sevilla, Paco Jemez vs Jorge Sampaoli two men who the D-word (defense), how to take into account that you should not speak. If they meet with a score of 6-5, it is very possible.

Another pleasure is in derbies in Galicia and Sevilla. Teams like Malaga and Espanyol are fascinating follow strong summer. And the North will be hot in the Basque Country, which has five representatives this season.

Of course, firm heads, training in the Classic, the classic of Madrid, but in the next season is the league where you have to search a little more about its nature appears. Unlike the Premier League, is not as visible, not everything be projected in his eyes area.

But it is the joy to be found in the: Premier League gives you something; League is another.

Combine them, embrace them both, and is in a rich football experience.

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