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It may have taken the extreme depths and European embarrassments we are currently seeing for everyone to catch on to the fact that the Premier League is pretty terrible at the moment, although it’s lacked real quality since 2011, but there’s little greater evidence of quite how far it’s fallen than the creeping possibility of Serie A taking its fourth Champions League spot. The issue goes beyond simply dropping into the second tier of leagues – Serie A hasn’t actually improved, the Premier League has simply got that much worse. Calciopoli marked the beginning of the end, but Serie A fell behind due to the riches flooding elsewhere. In the wake of Roman Abramovich taking over at Chelsea, the Premier League overtook Serie A in the mid 2000s with a flood of new coaches and stars from abroad, the brilliance of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona and the arms race it began to keep up in Madrid had a knock-on effect further down in Spain, while the Bundesliga has benefited from its focus on youth and a new generation of talented coaches, making it the hotbed of tactical innovation that Serie A traditionally was. Once the ban after Heysel ended England’s hold […]
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