Is the Premier League eating the rest of football?

The Run of Play found this 4/18/2008 on blogs.reuters.com [flag]

It was with more than the usual haste that I strode off from the Nou Camp after Frank Rijkaard’s customary non-committal news conference on the eve of Barcelona’s Champions League match against Schalke on Tuesday. Liverpool against Arsenal was being shown on terrestrial TV here in Spain and it was one of those games that you didn’t want to miss. So I settled down to my ... [link]

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On Beasts and the Barclays Premier League
Published 4/18/2008 by Dr. Chesapeake Marchpane at The Run of Play
... The recent dominance of English teams in the UEFA Champions League competition has led to considerable anxiety among football writers and administrators and to claims that the English Premier League is “eating the rest of football.” This curiously gruesome but nevertheless oft-employed metaphor, which depicts the Premier League as a predatory beast devouring the corpse of all non-English and lower-English football, is intended merely to suggest the dramatic and, as it were, aggressive rise to power of a league that for the past two seasons has sent three teams to ...

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