The English Premier League is often referred to as the “Premier League”. It is a professional league under the English Football Association and one of the five major leagues in Europe. Due to its fierce physical confrontation and game watching, the English Premier League is very popular in the world.
The English Premier League created the history of modern football, in 1888 they established the Football League and the development continues until today, while the English Premier League was founded on February 20, 1922, and in the 1992/1993 season became the top football league in England, ending the history of the English league divided into four divisions for more than 100 years.
Since then, English football has experienced a lot of things, and fan safety issues have brought the league into a low point, forcing the league to reform. On 17 July 1991, the 17 top clubs in England signed an agreement which became the basis for the establishment of the Premier League.
From then on, the new league had operational rights independent of the FA and the Football League, and the right to negotiate broadcasting rights and sponsors.
The development of the Premier League is very fast, to a large extent and TV related, British Sky TV broadcast let many people gradually understand the emerging league, TV instigation coupled with the game itself of high quality, high intensity physical confrontation, the Premier League gradually fire, while bringing huge profits to the major clubs.
There are so many events in the history of the Premier League, here choose to enter the unparalleled world of the Premier League from the perspective of team introduction. Let me introduce some famous teams in the English Premier League. ‘
1. Manchester United
Manchester United is the biggest club in the Premier League today and the most successful club in the history of the league. It was founded in 1878 and is located in Manchester, England.
Manchester United’s home ground is the Old Trafford stadium, which is now the largest capacity of the Premier League stadium, the capacity of 76,000 people, so that other clubs can not reach, it is worth mentioning that the Old Trafford stadium has a loud nickname “dream theater”, the past 100 years, here staged countless classic games, let people remember.
Perhaps no mention of Manchester United is more poignant than the Munich air disaster of 1958. Manchester United and its fans were in deep mourning that year when eight players, including Duncan Edwards, were killed.
Then United rebuilt from the pain and went on to the glorious road we see now. Under the leadership of Sir Alex Ferguson, countless world-famous stars came out, from Cantona to Beckham, Giggs to Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, are so loud. Manchester United, always on the road.
2. Liverpool
Liverpool Football Club is one of the strongest clubs in the Premier League, the Reds Liverpool Club in Liverpool. Liverpool was founded in 1892 and plays at Anfield. During the glory years of the Red Army, there were countless superstars who were able to influence the entire history of football, and they are the perfect embodiment of the Red Army spirit.
Liverpool Football Club was founded in 1892 by John Houlding. Due to a series of disputes between Hodding and Everton club, Hodding increased the rent of Anfield stadium from £100 to £250, which Everton could not afford, and was forced to end the eight-year partnership and move to Goodson Park. In this way, Hodding founded a new team on the site, Liverpool Football Club.
Time flies, that year’s Liverpool has become one of the most powerful clubs in the world, creating countless glory of their own teams. Now the Reds have more to remember the great, Liverpool’s absolute spiritual leader Steven Gerrard in 2005 led the team to create the great Istanbul myth is to make all the Reds fans crazy.
Liverpool have a spiritual motto is “You’ll never walk alone” (You’ll never walk alone), which is also the name of their team song, which is the declaration of Liverpool people, but also the embodiment of the team spirit.
3.Arsenal
Arsenal Football Club is based in Holloway, London. The home ground was moved from Highbury Stadium to the Stadium, with a capacity of 60,301. Founded in 1886, Arsenal joined the English Football League in 1893, the first southern football club to join the league.
In 1919, Arsenal was elected to the First Division, which resumed after the First World War, and has never left the English top flight since, which is a record for an English team.
Frenchman Arsene Wenger took over Arsenal in 1996 and created a remarkable team. Vieira, Marc Ovamas, Henry, Ljungberg, Pires and a series of outstanding talents to make this Arsenal dynamic, they once again in the 2001-02 season against Manchester United, won the Premier League and FA Cup double, 2002-03 season won the FA Cup again.
When it comes to the Gunners, there are too many classics to count, there is the stunning 88-89 season Thomas beat Liverpool to win the title, there is Arsene Wenger led 49 games unbeaten, there is the perfect performance of the ice prince, and the king of Highbury Henry’s unparalleled. These are things that gun fans will remember for the rest of their lives. The Arsenal team song is full of humanistic feelings, incorporating the names of a series of outstanding players in the past, and making people remember these past achievements when motivating the players.
4.Chelsea
Headquartered in London, Chelsea Football Club is one of the traditional giants of the English Premier League. The team was founded on March 10, 1905, although it is a little later than some older teams, but it does not affect its greatness. Chelsea’s home stadium is located in the Hammersmith-Fulham area near the River Thames at Stamford Bridge, with a capacity of 42,055 people.
The mention of Chelsea always brings back memories of the “millennium”, that year due to the overall age of the team, the team’s poor results, the team is carrying a huge debt of $77 million. In June 2003, Ken Bates sold the club to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for a low price of £60 million.
He repaid the club’s £77 million debt, which not only reversed Chelsea’s lack of financial resources, but also dramatically increased Chelsea’s financial resources. The Chelsea team song is even more catchy, which shows the love of Chelsea fans for the team thoroughly. Blue is the colour, blue is the colour, blue is the colour.
5.Manchester City
Manchester City football club is headquartered in Manchester, the team was founded in 1894, Manchester City’s home stadium is called the Etihad Stadium, can accommodate 47,805 people at the same time to watch the game. They and city rivals Manchester United can be described as many years of old enemies, although the results are far less than Manchester United so brilliant, but they have been working hard to create their own legend and won the Premier League championship in the 13/14 season.
Manchester City won the FA Cup for the first time in 1904, but spent the next 30 years in promotion and relegation. In the 1930s, Manchester City won a series of honours, including the FA Cup in 1934 and the first league title in 1937, but, incredibly, the following year after winning the league title, City were relegated to the second Division as the defending champions. After 2002, he finally secured a place in the Premier League under the leadership of Keegan, and is now slowly growing up.
As with any major rival, the rivalry between the two teams has never ceased, with United fans often joking about City’s long failure to win the heavyweight championship, as Old Trafford is just outside the city limits, and City fans claiming that United are not from Manchester at all.
Both teams have a long history and excellent record, Manchester City in the 1950s and 1970s slightly dominant, while United in recent years has reversed the situation, the two teams in Manchester is almost 50-50 support, the east of Manchester residents more support City, and United fans from the west and all over the world. On 27 February 2002, Sun Jihai joined Manchester City from Dalian Shide for 2 million pounds, and is one of the greatest Chinese players in the history of the English Premier League.
6.Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is headquartered in Newcastle, England, the team was founded in 1881, Newcastle United’s home stadium is called the Center Field, can accommodate 52,409 people at the same time to watch the game on November 4, 2009 renamed “St James’s Park Stadium”.
Since its inception, Newcastle United have won four English top-flight titles, the last of which was in 1927, and the best results since the formation of the Premier League are two runners-up (1996 and 1997) and several FA Cup runners-up. Newcastle United Football Club is an established football team in England, not only in the United Kingdom, but in the whole of Europe is one of the first football clubs.
In the highly competitive First Division, the young Newcastle United dared to fight, not only did not relegate in the first few years of promotion, but also achieved quite good results, and won the league championship in 1905.
This was followed by two league titles in 1907 and 1909, the FA Cup in 1910, third place in 1902, fourth place in 1904, 1906 and 1908, and runners-up in 1905, 1907, 1908 and 1911. These proud records made Newcastle United a super team that all teams did not want to meet in English football at that time, this period can also be called Newcastle United since its establishment to dominate in English football’s first heyday, at that time it was incomparable.
In 2010, after another season in the Championship, Newcastle returned to the Premier League and achieved success, qualifying for the Europa League under the current manager Alan Pardew, and the club signed an eight-year contract with the manager, Alan Pardew, with the intention of building a big club.