Becoming everything the fan boys laugh at and mock
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It's actually not.
They've been going over that cycle since 2000 when they started to think that they have the best league.
They have an argument for every situation they are in. They have arguments for everything that's bad about the other leagues, and they twist the narrative when that occurs in their beloved EPL.
More goals scored in England? Italy/Spain/whomever has a shitty defensive league.
More goals scored in Italy? England has more quality, don't concede as much.
It's funny if you have followed this closely and paid attention to their arguments over the past 2 decades and actually even more.
I don't care much about leagues etc, it's a stupid argument. Why should I defend Serie A, the league is corrupt as fuck? But when I see these douchebags I just love to go on an anti-rant mode, they're so easy to attack because their argument has foundations on quicksand.
But what I do find awkward for PL fans is that despite a long tradition and history, the number of derbies per month, let alone per matchday, is freaking limited.
There are times where we have Inter vs Milan and Roma vs Lazio on the same matchday, and then the next matchday will have Genoa vs Sampdoria and Juventus vs Torino. It's rare to find a matchday in Italy without a proper derby, with the correct sense and not the silly PR nonsense that "other" leagues took and every big game regarding the table is a "derby" (Greece does this a lot, Cyprus even more, there's like 3 teams but 25 games classified as derbies by the media).
Manchester City vs Chelsea is a big game, you can call it a Sugardaddy derby but it's really not a derby.
10 games in the league, not one derby, just one 'big' game.
Serie A has Atalanta vs Inter, which is a Lombardia derby and a relatively big game nowadays, which makes it a relatively weak matchday.
Next week we have Napoli vs Salernitana, huge historic affair for both sets of fans, we have Spezia vs Sampdoria, a Ligurian derby and Milan vs Juventus which isn't really a derby but it's considered a 'classico' in Italy. And of course it's a big game.
The following matchday there's just the Inter vs Milan, but damn...
PL next week has the biggest London derby (Chelsea vs Tottenham) and that's about it. Following matchday? Nothing. Matchday after? Still nothing. The next has Man City vs Spurs which is a relatively big game these days but not a derby (an equivalent of Inter vs Lazio from last week), whereas Italy even has a rivalry with the Verona vs Udinese game from the week after the Madonnina on top of a few big games (Napoli vs Inter and Atalanta vs Juventus), followed by a matchday that has Juventus vs Torino.
It's quite incredible how the PL lacks this, and there's like 6 clubs in London usually in the league so more cross-town games should be expected.
edit: Just realized that there was also Tottenham vs Arsenal but it's postponed, so I missed that. This was actually a highlight week for the PL, with two "big" games, one of them an actual derby.