In late eighties when England football was in a real crisis
situation, they started a domestic league for overcoming that situation & improving their standard in world football.
There was a time in late eighties when the organizers
of UEFA Champions league authority denied to take any British club in their
tournaments regarding the death of 56 people after a fire at Bradford City’s
Valley Parade ground in 1985, the disaster in Heysel Stadium in the same year& the nasty activities of British Hooligans. Due to those incidents UEFA
authorities banned British clubs for five years from taking part of their club
cup tournaments. Situations started to improve once again when England reached
in the semi-final of the World Cup in Italy, 1990,in the same year UEFA authority
lifted that ban on British clubs, result Man U lifted the trophy in 1991.
Though it was not sufficient enough to save British clubs, there were not any good endorsements for the football in England,
players started to move away in the other countries the condition in stadiums
were very poor. The popularity of Football league was gone towards the bottom,
even the standard & popularity have gone down of La-Liga, Serie A & Bundesliga.
Then top 22 teams of First Division introduced
this new format of English Premier League on 20th February 1992 for
taking advantage of a lucrative television rights deal which provided an
additional financial boost, was very
much necessary for British football. EPL Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on
a system of promotion & relegation with the football league,
it changed the landscape of English football forever.
The inaugural version
of the EPL was held on 1992-93 and was originally composed of 22 clubs. The
first ever Premier League goal was scored by Brian Deane of Sheffield United in
a 2–1 win against Manchester United. During the course of a season (from August
to May) each club plays the others twice (a double round-robin system),
once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of
38 games. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned the
champion & three lowest placed teams are relegated. Barclay is the current
official sponsor of EPL since 2007, so it is named Barclays Premier league now.
In the inaugural season of
EPL, Manchester United became the champion, their tradition is still going on
ahead, out of past nineteen EPL championships
Man U became twelve times winner of that crown. Apart from Man U the other
teams could be the champion in seven times only, Blackburn Rovers once in
1994-95, Arsenal thrice 1997-98,
2001-02, 2003-04 & Chelsea thrice also 2004-05, 2005-06, 2009-10. As the
Premier League prepares to enter its third decade there has again been a change
of emphasis at the summit, with Manchester City emerging as both a new force
and a legitimate championship contender after a concerted influx of the foreign
talent which continues to enlighten the division.
The EPL is not at all
artistic, skillful & lucrative like Spanish La-Liga rather it is full of
power, energy & strength, the footballers have to tolerate very hard-tackle
in that version, EPL is all about power& stamina. Whatever EPL in its 20th
session, day by day its gaining popularity & success. Success in Europe has
not been limited to the country’s biggest sides, though, and the Premier League
has been well represented in UEFA competitions during the last 20 years.
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