Quote Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga View Post
Once again, you can't ignore Chelsea winning it though they are still English after all and you can't do better than win it. You can write us off as we're sh*t, we always know we're going out when the knockout stages (if another team made it they'd probably make a better effort of it) arises so make it 6 teams in 2 years.

Man U faced the best team in the competition, they are undoubtedly in the best 8 teams in Europe. Man City aren't far behind either, they are a bit like us when in the early years, we were a great team yet never progressed far enough, but that wasn't because we weren't good enough.

I think the best English teams can undoubtedly compete, they have the quality as Man U showed, those below the top 2-3 perhaps not so much however.
Point taken in that respect because I can’t imagine the Prem suffering a serious decline in the same way Italian football was struck unless the big clubs ran into serious money problems. At the moment they have can just continue to build and build until they get better. If the money were to get cut and owners ran into money problems, then we can talk seriously about the English league dying. As said before, I think most teams are in state of transition.