"?If there's one football argument that will last until the end of time - or, rather, until football ceases to exist - it will be 'Which of Europe's Top Five or Six Leagues is the Best in the World?'
Luckily for 90min, football fans flocked to a recent poll we conducted to end this age-old debate and, suffice to say, there was a clear winner:
With almost 31,000 of the 42,696 votes cast, the English Premier League was the outright victor among our readership.
Realistically, it's not difficult to see why the world's most profitable league came out on top. Boasting two of the world's biggest ever clubs in Manchester United and Liverpool, a record TV £5.14bn television rights deal struck with the UK's biggest network providers and a whole host of world class players on show every week, football supporters certainly have it good in Great Britain.
The Premier League's global appeal is second to none too. More matches are now broadcast live in other continents than ever before, and more and more Premier League sides are taking advantage of their overseas fan bases by partaking in pre-season training camps in the USA, Dubai, Thailand and Australia in a bid to maximise their reach across the world.
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So great has the Premier League's brand become, in fact, that talks about those god awful 39th game propositions are said to still be taking place behind closed doors.
For all the positives (and not-so-positive) aspects of the Premier League, however, English football's elite has struggled to make themselves forces to be reckoned with in continental competitions, such as the Champions League, in recent years.
Not since Chelsea's 2011/12 triumph over Bayern Munich has an English side made it to the final of UEFA's heavyweight tournament, while Spain has seen at least one club progress to the final in each of the past three seasons.
Speaking of Spain, the country's La Liga division was second to the Premier League in our poll. Not surprising, granted, but what was shocking was the sheer gulf in votes cast between the two juggernauts of European football.
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Just over 7,500 people believe that Spain's top tier is the strongest European league which, quite frankly, is shocking when the arguments for La Liga are pretty strong.
Both Real Madrid and Barcelona are titans of the beautiful game, and the two clubs command the top two positions in Forbes' richest clubs list with values of £2.52bn and £2.46bn respectively. Only Manchester United come close to equalling those totals out of Premier League sides with a £2.3bn valuation.
The two Spanish giants also possess some of the world's biggest stars, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez just five world-class players plying their trade in the Iberian Peninsula. Along with other extremely reputable clubs such as Atletico Madrid and Sevilla, it's strange to see La Liga not voted for in greater numbers.
That is, until, you take into account football banning orders for the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid in recent seasons. And the customary insertion of release clause fees that some Premier League sides are only too happy to pay. And reports of some superstars being taken to court over unpaid tax. And the sheer wealth of the wages on offer in England's top tier.
Still, it could be worse for La Liga. They could be one of the other four biggest leagues in Europe that only scraped between 1% and 4% of the entire votes cast.
In spite of German giants Bayern Munich and other notable clubs like Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga's share of 1,700 votes is pittance in comparison to either the Premier League or La Liga. Unfortunately, the pull of those two divisions is just too strong for the stars of many of the clubs in Germany's top flight and, with vast sums of money at the top of the game in England and Spain, the vast majority of German clubs just can't compete and hang on to their prized assets.
The argument is the same for the other three polled leagues too.
Italy's Serie A was revered during its heyday of the 1990s but, with continuous allegations of corruption within the game and the rise of other top leagues, it's not shocking to see just 1,280 people vote it as the best league in Europe. Juventus have remained somewhat of a force on the continent, but with the likes of Inter and AC Milan suffering falls from grace recently, Serie A doesn't hold the appeal it once did.
Meanwhile, both the Portuguese Liga (over 850 votes) and France's Ligue 1 (around 430 votes) were pretty much laughed at and dismissed as contenders for the award of 'Best European League'. Benfica, Sporting and Paris Saint-Germain aside, there's not much to write home about in either league unfortunately.
Of course, the Premier League's financial bubble could end up bursting and send it careering off top spot, but the likelihood of that happening any time soon is unlikely. La Liga could go the same way as Serie A, but Barcelona and Real Madrid are here for a long time to come yet too.
All in all, unless one of Europe's other top leagues suddenly become awash with vast sums of money, the Premier League will retain the title of 'Biggest European League' for some time yet.
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