Is the Premier League really the best league in the world?

The panel debate whether the Premier League is better than Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A. Visit http://www.lifesapitch.co.uk for interviews, expert pundits and blogs from top football writers.

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Sports

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• Mike Calvin
• John Cross
• David Walker
• Dominic Fifield
• Premier League
• Serie A
• La Liga
• Barcelona
• Real Madrid
• Manchester United
• Man Utd

[rafazii]

Stopped watching when someone described Harry Redknapp as 'astute'

[sriusername]

Wheres Andy Gray when u need him/?

[TH7]

I think the Italian League is worth a mention along EPL for best league. They don't normally rely on foreign owners. Van Basten, Zico, Maradona, Zidane, Ronaldo, Baggio, Weah, the players it used to have were better than all of the other leagues.

[RicardoVilla4]

As for La Liga, its only real Madrid and Barcelona, if you take away those 2 teams from the league the rest are about as strong as the French League. How many top class players are there other than Real/Barca? 4 or 5? compared to Serie A and EPL if you take the 2 best teams in those leagues away (Milan, Juventus,Man City,Chelsea) theres still so much quality in Maicon,De Rossi,Lucio,Milito,Sniedjer,Ca­vani,Hamsik,Lavetti,Rooney,Vid­ic,Evra,Gerrard,Suarez,Modric,­Bale,Van Persie,Nani ect.

[RicardoVilla4]

Also the squads are stonger now in Serie A, look at current Champs Man Utd vs Milan, how many Man Utd players would be defo starters in that Milan team? Obvs Rooney, Vidic, Evra but other than that Im struggling to think of another maybe Nani. Over the past year Milan, Juve, Inter and Napoli have all improved so much for Serie A compared to EPL where only Man City and Spurs have improved and Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal have all gone downhill.

[RicardoVilla4]

Serie A has improved so much since this was filmed. Milan have the 3rd strongest team in the World with the best defender in the World in Silva, Ibrahimovic is the 3rd best player in the World, Pato 1 of the top 5 forwards, Nesta 1 of the top 5 CB, Robniho, Cassano, Boateng, Mexes, Seedorf, Aquilaini all class. Juventus on the rise, Inter maybe struggling but they still have a champion team, Napoli/Udinese rising teams. Juventus with a new stadia, more top youth coming through, its looking good.

[RicardoVilla4]

Its funny how people have said the EPL has been the best league over the past 5 years, I live in London, here EPL fans who know nothing about Football bost its the best but heres a question for you, Serie A over the past 5 years has been dreadful I admit that. BUT in that time Serie A has won 2 ECL compared to EPLs 1 so yes the EPL may be the best league in the World. but tbh its nothing for EPL fan to bost about that they cant even win as much as Serie A when its going through its lowest point.

[FraneQACM1899]

Premier League, Serie'A, La Liga, BundesLiga, Ligue 1

[April5GenX]

1- Liga BBVA 2- EPL 3- Bundesliga 4- Serie A 5- Ligue 1

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[thenjay87]

hahah this guy says where the star talent at milan is, any club in england would drop 35 million to sign thiago silva

[PalMundo90]

how the fuck is the epl the most competitive league in the world? its the same fucking winners everytime. Bundesliga is the most competitive and most exciting

[hdaaap]

spain, england, italy, germany, france...the rest..