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The English Premier league or in short EPL is officially known as the “Barclays Premier League” for sponsorship issues. It is actually a UK based professional football league for English clubs.

Twenty clubs compete in the English Premier league. Seasons continue from August and ends up on May. 38 games are played by each team.

The competition began as the Football Association or in short FA Premier League on 20th February, 1992. The very first game was held on 15th August in the very same year. Few of the clubs in the First Division of the Football League took decision to break away from the Football League in order to derive benefits from a more profitable TV right contract.

Since 1888, The Football League has been arranged as the main football competition of the United Kingdom. As a matter of fact, since its inception the Premier League has turned out to be the most watched and anticipated sporting football league of the world.

It is also one of the highest and most well paid football leagues of the world. In the 2005-06 season, the cumulative club revenue was approximately $1.4 billion. It may well rise to as such as $1.8 billion in the 2007-08 season simply because of the rising media attention and revenues received from it.

The number of clubs taking part varies each year. New clubs join, older ones leave, or get merged with other club to form new clubs. On an average there are 15 clubs on an average per division. This signifies that more than 7000 clubs are the proud members of a league in the EPL.

For winning one match teams receive 3 points and for a draw 1 point. The cumulative points and the goal differences identify the ranks of the teams participating in the league. As seasons end, the club having the maximum no. of points is declared the champion. Factors like the goal difference and the no. of goals scored, decides the champion if two or more teams ends the season with equal points.

Till date only 4 out of the 40 English Premier League clubs have been able to lift the title of the premier league. The teams are the Arsenals (also known as the Gunners), Blackburn rovers, Chelsea (Men in Blue) and Manchester united (The Red Devils). The current champion of the Premier league is Manchester United (also known as the red devils). They lifted the title for the ninth time in 2006-07 season. No Premier League team has ever won that many number of premier league titles ever.

The Qualification games for the Football World Cup 2010 are on the brink of coming to an end, with the main event to be played in less than just a year. Now it appears like a pretty good time to make prediction over which teams might be the ones to lift the trophy and which ones would choke in the bigger stage.
Once the playoffs are over, and the teams are finalized, a lot of these future qualifiers might easily turn out to lift the trophy.
One of the major factors in deciding the team most likely to become World Cup Champions is the venue where the event is going to be held. For the very first time, Africa will host the Football World Cup in next year i.e. on 2010. For the teams hailing from the Europe and America exhaustion due to travel might be a factor to consider, while the African nations could derive good bit of benefit by playing on their own soil.

When the Football World Cup was first played in the Asian soil in the year of 2002, a lot of the people said the same thing.
However, as always it turned out to be the European and the South American teams who toppled everyone else and showed their shear dominance. But, at the same time the African teams have also exhibited great bit of promise and are now in great consideration of lifting the trophy alongside the two other primary continents i.e. Europe and the South America.

Of the teams already qualified, only Brazil, Spain and England can be termed as the prominent title contenders. Leaving aside the mishap in the recent Confederations Cup, Spain is looking like the champion team that won the biggest European championship the Euro 2008. Their mistakes in the recently concluded Confederations Cup might eventually prove a helping hand in educating them on what they require in avoiding any of that in the next big event which World Cup 2010.

With convincing win in the Confederations cup and being the top ranked team in the Qualifying rounds, Brazil now surely looks invincible. With their recent demolishing win over Argentina they have sent the whole world a strong message and looks to be in ominous form to lift the 2010 Football World Cup. The ability of Brazil in combining shear talent along with the contemporary organized football appears to be a winning formula for them.

A few other noteworthy teams are there alongside Brazil and Spain who are also very much in contention for lifting the trophy. England, Holland, Italy, Germany is the ones to seriously look out for.

So, if things go right for Dunga’s team then it wouldn’t be difficult for them to repeat what they have done 5 times before!Get custom lanyards of your favorite team and start passing around to your friends to show strong support for upcoming games.

The English Premier league or in short EPL is officially known as the “Barclays Premier League” for sponsorship issues. It is actually a UK based professional football league for English clubs.
Twenty clubs compete in the English Premier league. Seasons continue from August and ends up on May. 38 games are played by each team.

The competition began as the Football Association or in short FA Premier League on 20th February, 1992. The very first game was held on 15th August in the very same year. Few of the clubs in the First Division of the Football League took decision to break away from the Football League in order to derive benefits from a more profitable TV right contract.

Since 1888, The Football League has been arranged as the main football competition of the United Kingdom. As a matter of fact, since its inception the Premier League has turned out to be the most watched and anticipated sporting football league of the world.

It is also one of the highest and most well paid football leagues of the world. In the 2005-06 season, the cumulative club revenue was approximately $1.4 billion. It may well rise to as such as $1.8 billion in the 2007-08 season simply because of the rising media attention and revenues received from it.

The number of clubs taking part varies each year. New clubs join, older ones leave, or get merged with other club to form new clubs. On an average there are 15 clubs on an average per division. This signifies that more than 7000 clubs are the proud members of a league in the EPL.

For winning one match teams receive 3 points and for a draw 1 point. The cumulative points and the goal differences identify the ranks of the teams participating in the league. As seasons end, the club having the maximum no. of points is declared the champion. Factors like the goal difference and the no. of goals scored, decides the champion if two or more teams ends the season with equal points.

Till date only 4 out of the 40 English Premier League clubs have been able to lift the title of the premier league. The teams are the Arsenals (also known as the Gunners), Blackburn rovers, Chelsea (Men in Blue) and Manchester united (The Red Devils). The current champion of the Premier league is Manchester United (also known as the red devils). They lifted the title for the ninth time in 2006-07 season. No Premier League team has ever won that many number of premier league titles ever.

Today in United States without a doubt, College football is the best sporting event. The enthusiasm level that one feels at the football games is unprecedented and unheard of when you compare it to any other major sporting event. The reasons behind these are pretty clear.

First of all, from the athletes’ point of view, they have got everything to play for by putting in their best. Secondly, the fans get grooved to the game forming a big group and majority of them have gone or are still going to the schools and lastly, each and every game has so much of an impact on the rankings of the teams that it turns a really enthralling roller coaster ride.
The urge to play quality football arises because of the fact that they want to convert themselves into a professional football superstar. In addition to this, majority of them have full ride scholarships that aids the out in getting good education, which might not be received by them if not they had played football. Additional zeal is infused in them due to these derived benefits of playing football.

Student athletes can be greatly motivated by the cheers and appreciation of the crowd. During the football matches, the bonding among the crowd is a real astonishment. These supporters are predominantly those have received their education at the same school and they are simply the best crowd to cheer their fellow mates. All these make the game a treat to watch for the followers of this game.

Finally, unlike the even natured professional football, each game in the college football will identify the ranking. It is so competitive that even a single loss can lead a strong team to be going to a less than desired bowl game which signifies loss of revenues for that particular school. With all these ups and downs undoubtedly, College football is the best entertaining sports today in US!