Already the most watched and the most lucrative football league, the English Premiership was missing something - the ‘Hit’ Factor!

Who would have believed that Reggiani, a fictitious young Italian football character, would choose Liverpool as his favourite club? Yet this is a regular thing today. The pace of England’s football seems to have taken over from Spain's ‘juego técnico’ and Italy's famous ‘catennacio’.

It is an open secret that football is the most ungrateful sport in the world - for many reasons. One second you are the best, the next you are under a pile of garbage. Then there's the faithful and almost unhealthy attraction the media have for strikers - sometimes completely ignoring the merits of very good defenders and midfielders.

'When you have players as enthusiastic as Dimitar Berbatov, Arjen Robben and Tomas Rosicky, does it really matter if they can’t speak Portuguese?'


The striker is the heart of the team and the more flamboyant they are, the more the team are likely to attract attention. The Premiership doesn’t have Ronaldinho or Lionel Messi - so what? They have Cristiano Ronaldo and a new breed of English wingers who tastefully ally technicality with power and pace - Gabriel Agbonlahor, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jermaine Pennant to name a few.

Real Madrid attracted the world by reuniting an almost impossible constellation of stars with their ‘Galacticos' (Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo and so on). But since the arrival of a new wave of international investors putting enough money in soccer clubs to purge Africa’s debt,  unbelievable talents have been running around England's pitches.

‘Chelski’ led the way by spending humongous amounts of money to buy star players and offer them sky-high salaries, soon to be followed by many other teams.

It seems the presence of Brazilians or Argentinians lifts a league from a dull rating to ‘’I am never going to miss a game’’ status. If that statement is true, then the fact that the Premiership seems to be lacking the major players of the latino world should be considered a handicap. But when you have players as enthusiastic as Dimitar Berbatov, Arjen Robben or even Tomas Rosicky, to name a few, does it really matter if they can’t speak Portuguese?

The Barclays Premier League has it all. Joga bonito!