Former Everton and Manchester United boss, David Moyes has recently taken a swipe at the league where he was previously employed, claiming the standard has declined badly in the Premier League over the past couple of seasons. Is he right? Is ‘the best league in the world’, simply now the most overhyped one? The last few weeks of European competition have put the struggles of English teams into the spotlight. No teams have managed to negotiate their way into the last eight, of either club European competition. Rather than comparing the Premier League to the other major European leagues, we will instead compare this year’s English top flight to ones of the past. How would this year’s...
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