{"id":14443,"date":"2017-11-09T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/09\/if-the-premier-league-is-so-strong-why-are-the-promoted-sides-doing-so-well-paul-wilson\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:00:29","slug":"if-the-premier-league-is-so-strong-why-are-the-promoted-sides-doing-so-well-paul-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14443","title":{"rendered":"If the Premier League is so strong, why are the promoted sides doing so well?  | Paul Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton, Huddersfield and Newcastle are surpassing expectations and are showing clubs such as Everton and West Ham how it should be doneWhen Pep Guardiola suggested an English team could win the Champions League the other day he was asked if he did not consider the intensity of the Premier League a potential problem. Intensity being the word normally used to promote the idea that the English league is somehow tougher and more demanding than other leagues around Europe, with more competitive fixtures each weekend and a festive programme that usually sets out to be as gruelling as possible when other countries\u2019 footballers are quite sensibly having a rest.\u201cNo,\u201d Guardiola said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in that. I think the best team will win; it\u2019s nothing to do with intensity.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2017\/nov\/09\/top-six-bust-premier-league-survial-system\" target=\"_blank\">If the Premier League is so strong, why are the promoted sides doing so well?  | Paul Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton, Huddersfield and Newcastle are surpassing expectations and are showing clubs such as Everton and West Ham how it should be doneWhen Pep Guardiola suggested an English team could win the Champions League the other day he was asked if he did not consider the intensity of the Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}