Friday, March 5, 2010

Boring leagues?

Boring leagues... leagues that have always without fail, year after year produced the same name or names on the titles at the end of the season. We all know what leagues are boring.
Personally I think the Scottish Premier league takes the crown for boringness and absolute predictability about it.
Year after year Rangers, Celtic, Rangers, Rangers then Celtic Celtic Celtic and then Rangers? Come on! Is it any wonder the league was stripped of one of it's champions league spots recently?
Yes i do know that the title races between these two can be exciting (2004-05, 2002-03) but the lack of more teams such as Hibernian and Hearts or even your emerging Motherwell means the top two in Scotland haven't changed since Hearts amazingly stole 2nd in 2005-06. But that was spoiled by Celtic winning by a healthy margin that year.

other boring leagues:
Another boring league in Europe is the Moldovan Diviviza. This league dosen't even feature two teams. Instead Moldovan football has been simply about Sherriff Tiraspol. Yes Sherriff are by far the strongest side in Moldova but the gap between them and the rest is getting bigger and bigger. Problems so for Zimbru, the former leading light in Moldova.

Croatia had a reputation for being boring with Dinamo Zagreb winning title to beat the band by fifteen to twenty points. But since Hajduk Split have got in order they have been making Dinamo work for the title.

Has Spain got a boring league? well with both Real Madrid and Barcelona running away to tussle for the title then yes this year has been boring in terms of number of teams fighting for the title. Certainly having both El Clásico clubs neck and neck is not boring but to spice up competition then yes Spain does lack that.

Serie A maybe with Inter Milan winning the title on offer since calciopoli in 2006. The other big names haven't managed to stop Inter.

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