Re: Barclay's Premier League
Man City and Chelsea are your bank rolled/oil money clubs, not winning silverware for them is a utter failure and generally results in the manager being sacked. However, neither team has a long term history of winning things and have only won anything due to the money pumped in. Man City are one of the most exciting teams to watch, football wise. Chelsea are a crap team to watch, based on their current manager's philosophy.
Man Utd have a huge following, generally due to their dominance up until recently, always expect them to be in the hunt for the title. They have a lot of debt but due to their commercial standing it's not an issue as they are servicing the debt, so run within their means. Can easily put away teams but also can be on the wrong end of a thumping.
Liverpool and Arsenal have a chequered past with history of winning things the right way, within their means and have been playing good football recently. Liverpool fans are one of the most deluded sets of fans in the world, and believe they are "entitled" to glory. Arsenal are ****. But entertaining ones generally, they do have some very dislikeable players though, their manager is always good value for a funny gif.
Spurs and Everton are the nearly rans of the league, both with much smaller budgets and wage structures than the above teams, will sometimes sneak into the top 4 and can get a result every now and then against the big teams. Spurs have a long history and were the first English team to do the domestic double, things tailed off last season when Bale was sold but they have a new manager and have some decent recent acquisitions who should start bearing fruit this year. Everton have an excellent manager but doing as well as they did last year may be a struggle unless they utilise the loan market well again. Solid at the back but lacking up front.
The rest aren't worth it, simply because, TV. You will get to watch a lot more of the above as they are the top 6 nearly every year. Plus West Ham are ****.