General Football forum • Re: Things You Miss From Old Football
I’ve only ever remembered football in the Sky era. But when looking at league tables and title winners before then it seemed that competition was relatively more level. Of course you would have the Liverpools and Man Utd’s exxpected to challenge, but there was also a very real possibility of a promoted team from Division 2 or a struggling Division 1 team from the season before actually mounting a title challenge.
Now it feels like it is the same teams who can realistically challenge for the title each season, Arsenal, Liverpool, clubs with billionaire owners like Chelsea and Man City and even Man Utd are expected at some point to click again like in the Fergie era.
There have been some anomalies like Leicester winning the Premier League and Aston Villa are still in the title race now but these occasions are so few now. And even for clubs like Everton, even if we were to recruit the next Baines, Coleman and Lukaku, it wouldn’t be near enough to challenge for the title, we would probably lucky to finish in the top 5.
Now it feels like it is the same teams who can realistically challenge for the title each season, Arsenal, Liverpool, clubs with billionaire owners like Chelsea and Man City and even Man Utd are expected at some point to click again like in the Fergie era.
There have been some anomalies like Leicester winning the Premier League and Aston Villa are still in the title race now but these occasions are so few now. And even for clubs like Everton, even if we were to recruit the next Baines, Coleman and Lukaku, it wouldn’t be near enough to challenge for the title, we would probably lucky to finish in the top 5.
Statistics: Posted by toffee_scot — Mon Feb 02, 2026 8:17 am