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[jazzypom]

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[blackjedii]

lol no the reason EPL has become so dang boring is that it is no longer about the game on the ground but the drama in the locker room. With Bundesliga (partially thanks to language barriers) you aren't spending all your time wondering when will be the next time Guardiola will go off on someone or whether Hummels will use his leverage to sniff around La Liga to get a new contract with Dortmud

[marsyke]

I do agree. The EPL has become a circus, soap opera and telenovella, all in one. The media are definitely at fault too. Transfers sagas, hypes and trainer drama get more attention than the matches themselves.

It hasn't been that way since 2010 tbh

[jazzypom]

In terms of say, footballers courting the press and such. That was the mainstay of Beckham, Gerrard and such. Once Rooney retires, it's the last of that sort of football player and accompanying WAG. I mean, save for the footballer who was a pedophile and the other one who was a rapist, I have no compunction about the media calling such things out? Apart from that, they've left the younger players alone. You don't see them on Hello! or OK! like the Gerrards, Rooneys, Beckhams of old. For instance, the only pictures of Harry Kane that I might see out and about are from fan tumblrs, not newspapers, where they would have been with Gerrard and his missus.

The up and coming footballers seem to have their heads down and their wives and girlfriends seem to be in professional jobs (not model/star columnist/singer), so you don't see that sort of thing anymore. The most you might see a footballer doing an interview is because of his sponsor and that's pretty rare.

With Bundesliga (partially thanks to language barriers) you aren't spending

[yamair]

I know what you mean, but I think this is more about the media. They report on the game as if they were reporting on the Big Brother house. The focus is on personalities and drama

[blackjedii]

yes. that. that is a good way to explain it.