The teams outside of the top 4 are really stepping up but I also think that is down to the younger, smarter managers in the league and newly promoted teams coming up with an attacking mentality. The hoof and hope stuff is going out the window. I don't think we're seeing the effects of the new TV money just yet. How long ago did the FA start that grass root campaign to try and improve the standard of English football?
But let's say the gap is shrinking in terms of finances. That still doesn't explain our barren years with Wenger. The smaller teams are now giving the bigger clubs a run for their money and getting results. But there is no way those teams have a budget that can compare to what we had before our new sponsorship deals. Not even close. You've always said the the billionaire clubs with the infinite money cheat made it near impossible for us to beat them but now you're saying the league is more competitive even though the majority of teams still have less than what we had before our new sponsors. Does that make sense?
I get the concept that teams taking points off each other makes the league more competitive but I've always said we'd lose a lot of points to teams outside of the top 4. That's always been our downfall. It's not as if losing games to our top 4 rivals always prevented us from winning the league. We'd drop points across the board.
