Nope.
Typical example of EPL bias and ignorance among English fans that I find nuseating.
Perhaps you should look at Palace results in the Conference League, as well as how many times PL clubs have won the UCL in the last 10yrs.
There’s more to football you know than the PL…
I’m curious, how many games have you watched in those leagues in the past one year?
Yes, and it is Midt-Jylland, as in Middle Jylland for the likes of you, thank you very much 
It’s where the Jutes came from.
I now declare White Peace if you will accept it 
Edit: amusingly you wrote midt i jylland correctly in Norwegian/Danish (just without spacing), but I don’t know if you meant to do that !
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You are entitled to your opinion, but I respectfully disagree.
Spurs are 14th in the PL and finished 17th last season. They snuck into the CL by the back door and finished 4th in the standings.
Bournemouth came to Anfield and beat us and people seriously thought Marseille would be the tougher test. Nonsense. I think that if Bournemouth were playing in league un, they’d only be behind PSG.
Based on what exactly?
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Based the fact that they have better players and are better coached than all the other teams.
Who would you think have a better chance against us if they turned up at Anfield - Bournemouth or Lens?
I think Mascot is very righ that the premier League is much stronger than all other leagues (due to concentration of elite footballers aka money).
But there is a Cut Off (Wolves would not win the Norwegian league or do anywhere near as well as Bodø/Glimt in Europe, even with all their TV money) and it’s higher up on the table than Mascot thinks (in my opinion).
But Top 8-10 in England would be competative in any European league for sure. Unfortunately.
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In the first place, they don’t have better players.
2ndly they do not play better football
Third, they are not better coached.
Some of you need to realize that there’s far more to the global game than the PL…
As to your question, its frankly poorly thought out. That’s not a basis for assessing the strenght of leagues. Bournemouth is an English team playing in same league as LFC…
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By the way, don’t think this is a run thumping patriotic salute the glorious might of the premier league. It’s a shit situation, which leads to rubbish, stale attritional football.
The fact remains West fucking Ham are the twentieth richest club in Europe.
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Well Lens are just behind PSG
We know, mate.
You are not the jingoistic type. Pretty sure you lament the situation like most of us. Because honestly, it is not a good situation for…sportsmanship (see our complaints on this forum about City winning the league with their inflated money, same-same really).
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Outside the top 4, all others would struggle.
For one, the refereeing standards are different and you couldn’t get away with what the likes of Sunderland do in the PL
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I think they do, and we’ve just seen our football club brush aside the third best team in France and get beat by Bournemouth within the space of a week.
And I never said they play better football.
I don’t think Premier league refs are as bad as most people. What I do think, is that they have failed to get better at the same rate as speed of play has.
So in short, I am not so sure that the average Prem ref is worse than the average ref in Italy. But I stress that I have not seen stats on this, but speed of play in the prem is quite fast.
But maybe you are right.
Getting beat by Bournemouth proves nothing, especially given where we are atm. Its not a basis for comparison because it ignores every other thing except the result…
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They are just ahead of Marseille, who we (in our wretched form) beat easily in their own stadium.
Its not necessarily that they are bad. Its about the football culture and how the refs interprete the game within it..
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Yeah, I don’t think this science is so exact.
Marseilles is, imo, on an average day better than bournemouth. Certainly the stats show that.
And really, most every team steps up and approches a Champions League game with far higher intensity and concentration than a normal league game. You cannot say that just because we were untroubled by Marseilles, they are inferior to a team we may lose to in the league (this season we have lost to most weaker sides in the league, many of whom are clelarly worse teams than Marseilles)
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So much this.