straynt: How can u say mikel obi has no asist in 6 yrs? Dat preposterous!

Logicboy03: I dont agree with everything the op said but the op has a valid general point

-there are local players with better talent than some robotic premiership/championship players. Better scouts are needed
-we should emulate the spanish total football style- passing, possession, flair.

GOZILLA: Op, ur points are useless. Seriously can you sit down and watch athletic bilboa and hercules play? Spanish league is boring abeg! Or why did u think the whole world comes to a standstill when barca and R.madrid play? Its because those are the teams that matter in that league. Blame the NFF for their inability to package our league not the EPL!

thegoodjoehunt:
The Panish league isn't boring. A lot of people are used to watching the EPL style of play and find the true art of good possesive football boring. I will watch Athletico Madrid play Valencia or Real Sociedad play Getafe or Malaga play Osasuna.

Than watching Stoke City play West Ham.

Remember the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and German fans complain about the lack of gifted players in the EPL.

The EPL is exciting to watch but not fantastic. That is why many were shocked when Athletico Madrid humiliated Chelsea or Athletico Bilbao embarrassing Man Utd. =

Kikijan:

Are you a retarrd or what?

Who cares about olympics soccer? How many real star players show up in olympics soccer?
Btw, Nigeria all along has been cheating in fielding old men to play under 17 games and since they started testing for age where has Nigeria reached?

You are not seen when it really counts, so fck off.

coogar:

but many were not shocked when arsenal demolished real madrid in 2006, when tottenham eliminated ac milan or when chelsea murdered bayern munich in the last edition of champions league final.

beauty is in the eyes of the beholder - you prefer tiki-taka, some other people prefer the direct football. you prefer swashbuckling attacking football but some fans want to see a well organised defensive football. so let's use the popularity vote(democracy) to settle this....

if the premier league is so shyte - why does it have more fans watching it in the whole wide world than any other league? some league games in the premier league have had 1 billion viewers watching it live - are you aware of that?

the premier league reign supreme over the others - it's not even debatable!

TheViper:

He condemned my analysis as unintelligent, but ends up typing something I can't read. What does this means? 'That won AFCON in 200 played in EPL?'

justwise:

I can't believe that some people have the gut to blame premier league, who invented football to start with?

Nigeria always get the wrong end of every good thing, Christianity is un-African but we used it to defraud people but we don't blame the white man for bringing Christianity to Africa, use Internet for all dubious activities but we never blame the white man for inventing Internet.

Premier league destroyed 'our' football indeed.

never_say_never:

Baseless point, how can you choose a 'ath. bilbao vs hercules' as a reference to the topic, every league has its average team, even laliga & EPL, but remember that this same Athletic bilbao humiliated Man. United last season, so if the world stands still for El-classico, it's because they're the best two teams in the world, you're obviously an EPL fan. Truth be told, spain has revolutionalised football over the last 6years, that's why they're world/european champions & produce the best coaches & players.

Ejiné:

Oga Justwise, na GREECE invent the 'game' of football o. And have you seen their terrible outings in tournaments?
So you see, that line of argument doesn't really count.

Red-Light:
can u proof the english invented football?

never_say_never:

Answer this question: If as an intelligent student, you find out that you're miles ahead of your peers academically, will you purposely lower your academic standards because people are complaining about the huge gap between you & your peers?

Honest answer.

executinal: @Op i quite agree with you based on your analysis. Well i think our major setback in football has to do with the wrong people at the ministry of sport. I remember this last minister or so who suppose to be minister of housing or whatever, but ended up being minister of sport by name Engr Isah Ndanusa.

How do you expect an Engr that knows nothing about football and handle any change in that position? Our major problem in Nigeria is tribalism, there are allot of qualified and capable hands out there who can transform Nigeria football / sport into world class competition, but who will bail the cat?

How many Egyptian footballers do you hear their name playing in England or Spain? they prefer to play in their country because it is well organise and they dominate in African football, they pay their players well in their local league, the pitch is standard. Same thing applicable to South Africa.

I can still remember far back when we were in secondary school, we organise inter house competition and the aim is to get the best candidate for various section of sport. We start from the LG levels to state level and finally to federal level and final selection is made to represent Naija to major competition within Africa and other continents.

We have our tradition of football, but trust Naija copy copy always. Sia sia could have still do better if Nigeria were patient enough for the guy. Keshi don't have basic coaching skills compare to Sia Sia (my opinion ooh).

Solution put the right person in that position he will transform Nigeria football and league to international standard.

thegoodjoehunt:
I totally agree with you that it is a matter of choice. By the way when Arsenal played Real Madrid, it wasn't direct football. Secondly you don't get an English side out playing a Spanish side. They just win. Just like Mourinho at Chelsea. A one nil victory is enough.

Athletico Bilbao is an average team in Spanish football, that is why Athletico Madrid put 8 goals past them in I think their last two meeting.

So for an average in La Liga to do that to the greatest team in English football is far more embarrassing than Tottenham beating AC Milan (not a Spanish Side) or Man Utd beating Barca under Rijkaard 1-0 by packing the bus oor Arsenal (then the second best team in the EPL)beating Real Madrid.

Remember Athletico Madrid thrashing Chelsea 4-1.

thegoodjoehunt:
I totally agree with you that it is a matter of choice. By the way when Arsenal played Real Madrid, it wasn't direct football. Secondly you don't get an English side out playing a Spanish side. They just win. Just like Mourinho at Chelsea. A one nil victory is enough.

Athletico Bilbao is an average team in Spanish football, that is why Athletico Madrid put 8 goals past them in I think their last two meeting.

So for an average in La Liga to do that to the greatest team in English football is far more embarrassing than Tottenham beating AC Milan (not a Spanish Side) or Man Utd beating Barca under Rijkaard 1-0 by packing the bus oor Arsenal (then the second best team in the EPL)beating Real Madrid.

Remember Athletico Madrid thrashing Chelsea 4-1.

coogar:

but many were not shocked when arsenal demolished real madrid in 2006, when tottenham eliminated ac milan or when chelsea murdered bayern munich in the last edition of champions league final.

beauty is in the eyes of the beholder - you prefer tiki-taka, some other people prefer the direct football. you prefer swashbuckling attacking football but some fans want to see a well organised defensive football. so let's use the popularity vote(democracy) to settle this....

if the premier league is so shyte - why does it have more fans watching it in the whole wide world than any other league? some league games in the premier league have had 1 billion viewers watching it live - are you aware of that?

the premier league reign supreme over the others - it's not even debatable!

Jarvis: almost every country in d world has a player playin in d epl.dats to tel u d quality of d lig.

musKeeto: Blame the NPL, not the EPL...
Isn't the EPL popular in Egypt? Or even Zambia?

Would the Ivoriens, whose team is made up of good quality EPL players, also complain about the influence of the EPL?