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Blackpool Beat Liverpool In Photos: Is There Life In The Premier League?

by | 3rd, October 2010

THE Premier League is the most anti-competitive football league in Europe. At the top of the pile are Chelsea and Manchester City – two clubs owned by billionaires who have bought and are buying success. So skewed and corrupt is the whole thing that the very rich clubs can go and buy more experienced top players in January.

But just as you give up hope and despair at the whole cynical made-for-TV sideshow that English football has become, Blackpool go and beat Liverpool 2-1 at Anfield. Of course, this is not the mighty Liverpool of old, but the impoverished Liverpool of now, the club that failed to see the potential of the Premier League and watched as Manchester Untied grasped the nettle.

But there is hope. Now, if Blackpool can find a billionaire buyer or rack up massive debt and sell out their fans they might actually win something – unless Man City buy all their best players…

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Liverpool fans hold a protest against owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett



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