Latest / The Bathwater Sports Podcast
Episode 28 - The Premier League is an Industrial Complex
Manchester United scraped past Roma, but did they actually prove anything? This week on Bathwater Sports, we use United's latest unconvincing performance to ask a much bigger question: Is the Premier League actually the best league in the world, or just the best-marketed?
Has the Premier League's middle class genuinely improved, or has the English media convinced us that every 12th-place club is a European powerhouse? We break down the league's financial arms race, whether all that money has actually improved the football, and why some of the biggest clubs in the world seem too big, too rich…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.