Hails The New Season
The most popular football league was resume
yet again. The Barclay Premier League or English Premier League as it also
known proved to be the most supported and watched in the world. The Premier
League is broadcast in 212 territories around the world, working with 80
different broadcasters. The TV audience for Premier League games is 4.7billion.
(www.premier.com)
The Barclays
Premier League has now been contested for 21 seasons. Man Utd won the first
League title in 1992/93. It was reported that a new survey in 2012 claimed that Manchester United, has 659 million followers worldwide, double
the number of fans the club had in 2007. If accurate, the Red Devils would have
twice the supporters of other global soccer brands like Barcelona, Real Madrid
and Chelsea, according to analysts. The survey, performed by Kantar, says the
soccer club has 71 million fans in the Americas, 90 million in Europe, 173
million in Middle East and Africa, 325 million in Asia Pacific, including 108
million in China. Kantor, which performed a similar study five years ago,
extrapolated its results from 54,000 respondents in 39 countries. (http://www.forbes.com
)
Kantar, based in
UK, was founded in 1993 as the Market Research, Insight and Consultancy
Division of WPP plc, a London-based public company.- http://www.kantar.com/)
In 2003, the
Premier League celebrated its first decade by holding the 10 Seasons Awards:
The most interesting were the Teams of the Decade segments. Man United players
filled most of it.
Teams of the
Decade:
Domestic: David
Seaman, Gary Neville, Tony Adams, Steve Bruce, Stuart Pearce, David Beckham,
Paul Ince, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Alan Shearer, Michael Owen
Overseas: Peter
Schmeichel, Dan Petrescu, Jaap Stam, Marcel Desailly, Denis Irwin, Fredrik
Ljungberg, Patrick Vieira, Roy Keane, Robert Pirès, Thierry Henry, Eric Cantona
Overall: Peter
Schmeichel, Gary Neville, Tony Adams, Marcel Desailly, Denis Irwin, David
Beckham, Patrick Vieira, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Alan Shearer, Eric Cantona
Now after played
for three matches for each club or 30 games all over so far 58 goals were
scored, 24 wins, 25 clean sheets, 99 yellow cards and four red cars. More to
come.
As for Man
United a slow starts again with hard games in the beginning of the
seasons. One win, a draw and a lost no
fare well actually but there are 35 games awaiting. To soon to conclude.
