30 Years Of The Premier League

[Cork Evertonian]

This coming August marks the 30th anniversary of the inaugural Premier League season. At first it was exciting i suppose. There was a novelty factor to Sky Sports coverage, and the influx of foreign players. The novelty wasn't long wearing off though!

Here we are 30 years later, and the sport has been ruined by corporate greed, clubs like Manchester City and Chelsea have become superpowers, we have clubs owned by Saudi terrorists now, we have the VAR bs, and Everton have been also rans for the entire duration of the Premier Leagues existence.

There's a sad irony to that because Sir Phillip Carter our then chairman, was one of the main driving forces in creating the Premier League. The Premier League era marked the start of the mega bucks coming into football, but we didn't take advantage of that, and lost our position as a major player in the english game.

Heysel didn't help obviously, but it was poor management and administration, in the years leading up to and throughout the early Premier League years, that caused Everton to lose it's position as a giant in english football imo.

If someone said to you thirty years ago, that Manchester City and Chelsea would get to ten league titles before us, then they would've been laughed out of it!

 

[riddick]

Hope they start the Super League and this whole thing resets itself.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

This was the role of honour in August 1992. Liverpool 18 League Titles, Arsenal 10 League Titles, Everton 9 League Titles, Manchester United 7 League Titles, Manchester City 2 League Titles, and Chelsea had 1 League Title.

Thirty years later and here is the state of play, Manchester United 20 League Titles, Liverpool 19 League Titles, Arsenal 13 League Titles, Everton 9 League Titles, Manchester City 8 League Titles, and Chelsea 6 League Titles.

 

[brieverton]

This was the role of honour in August 1992. Liverpool 18 League Titles, Arsenal 10 League Titles, Everton 9 League Titles, Manchester United 7 League Titles, Manchester City 2 League Titles, and Chelsea had 1 League Title.

Thirty years later and here is the state of play, Manchester United 20 League Titles, Liverpool 19 League Titles, Arsenal 13 League Titles, Everton 9 League Titles, Manchester City 8 League Titles, and Chelsea 6 League Titles.

Liverpool F.C. 1 League title. Never mind, but they're everyone's favourites.

 

[The Legend of Southall]

This was the role of honour in August 1992. Liverpool 18 League Titles, Arsenal 10 League Titles, Everton 9 League Titles, Manchester United 7 League Titles, Manchester City 2 League Titles, and Chelsea had 1 League Title.

Thirty years later and here is the state of play, Manchester United 20 League Titles, Liverpool 18* League Titles, Arsenal 13 League Titles, Everton 9 League Titles, Manchester City 8 League Titles, and Chelsea 6 League Titles.

Fixed it mate

Depressing how we're the only team to have stood still between those 2 lists, and in real terms, the only one to have gone backwards

 

[chrismpw]

Is it really 30 years since my love of the sport started withering? Well and truly dead now. All that history for nought.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Fixed it mate

Depressing how we're the only team to have stood still between those 2 lists, and in real terms, the only one to have gone backwards

Those stats show high dominant Man United have been in the modern era, they jumped from having seven titles to twenty titles.

Of course it was only five years, since our most recent league title back in 1992. I don't think anyone thought in 1992, that thirty years later we'd still be stuck on 9 league titles!

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Is it really 30 years since my love of the sport started withering? Well and truly dead now. All that history for nought.

While i do hate Leeds with a passion, credit where credit is due. They won the last league title that truly mattered imo.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Those stats show high dominant Man United have been in the modern era, they jumped from having seven titles to twenty titles.

Of course it was only five years, since our most recent league title back in 1992. I don't think anyone thought in 1992, that thirty years later we'd still be stuck on 9 league titles!

Of course i meant to say how dominant there.

Anyway here is some footage of our first ever Premier League game, it was a 1-1 draw against Sheffield Wednesday at Goodison. Barry Horne scored our first ever Premier League goal.

The poor Owls of course in later years, would fall even further down the mountain than Everton.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Good thing Sky were kind enough to invent football for us

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Here's our first Premier League win, when we smashed what was soon going to be, an all conquering Manchester United team at Old Trafford.

 

[The Legend of Southall]

While i do hate Leeds with a passion, credit where credit is due. They won the last league title that truly mattered imo.

Preston were the 1st Leeds were the last.

110 years were integrity was was mainly upheld and fairness broadly achievable. Don't get me wrong, Sky was a sympton not the disease, but it accelerated the decline

 

[Cork Evertonian]

As bad as we were back then, i did love the shirt we had that season. I think we wore it in the 1991/1992 season as well.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I actually watched the Premier League Years 92-93 recently and it was incredible how gaudy that first season was, with cheerleaders and fireworks after every game, and Sky doing the whole "This is the ONLY place you'll see live Premier League Football!!!"

They normally focus on the football on those shows but this one had so much self reverential back slapping that it almost made me feel ill

No Sky, you don't have to brag about how you had a big firework display after Man City drew 0-0 with Sheffield United at Maine Road

It was the beginning of the Americanisation of English football and it's only gotten worse as the years have progressed

Plus, I really hate when a TV company and streaming service brags about how you can only watch the thing you're watching with them. That's not a good thing. Hiding professional football behind an expensive paywall in order to line your own pockets is not something you should be bragging about. Football was the people's game and these TV companies came along and made it into a corporate brand where the actual supporters are the least important thing

It doesn't matter how many times you show Ryan Giggs making that slaloming run against Arsenal, or that 4-3 between Liverpool and Newcastle, or even the scenes at the end of the Everton/WImbledon game. The fact you own these moments and will do so for perpetuity, and far fewer people have seen them at the time as well as since on account of you essentially holding football hostage in your cavernous video vault, is not something you should be doing a victory dance over you self satisfied sacks of Rude Word Removed

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Here is our shirt from that debut premier league season.

Outside of Peter Beardsley and Neville Southall that Everton team was pretty mediocre, but the shirt was class imo.