The English Football Premier League is the most famous and lucrative in the world of football. Her income for 2013 amounted to $ 4.2 billion. The clubs from Manchester, London and Liverpool traditionally compete for the championship. London teams get the most attention from the public due to the prominence of the British capital.
First, let's talk about the most significant football clubs in London, which regularly take part in the championship race. It's about Arsenal and Chelsea.
Arsenal
The fans call the team gunners, gunners. T-shirts in red, long-term sponsor contract - Fly Emyreits, after which the club's arena is named.
The main achievements of the team are related to its current coach, Arsene Wenger, who managed to revive the club after a long hibernation. Under him, the championship was achieved, the top scorers of Arsenal became the leaders of the England championship in the number of goals scored (Robin van Persie, Thierry Henry).
Arsene Wenger actively uses young players, the club actively sells the most talented of them. Transfers are Arsenal's main source of income. One of the most famous football players in Russia, now a Zenit player, Andrei Arshavin, played for the Gunners.
Chelsea
Alternative names are blue, aristocrats. Although the British capital has an independent Chelsea district, the stadium and training base are located in a different area of London.
The team associates the main successes with its owner - Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Having become the owner of Chelsea, our compatriot has allocated hundreds of millions of pounds to buy expensive players. At first, there was no result - expensive stars could not play. Then Abramovich invited the ambitious Portuguese Jose Mourinho to the position of coach, who quickly put on a team game. With him, the aristocrats twice won the English championship, the Cup, the country's Super Cup and reached the Champions League final.
In the 2011-2012 season, Chelsea won the Champions League under interim coach Roberto Di Matteo. The team preaches power, fast game for results with the use of technical performers.
The former captain of the Russian national team, Alexei Smertin, became the champion of England with Chelsea
Other clubs
Of course, it's hard to compete with the above-mentioned TOP teams in terms of budgets, game and popularity for all other clubs.
The eternal rivals of Londoners in the Premier League are the teams from Manchester: Manchester United and Manchester City.
4 more London teams regularly play in the Premier League: Crystal Palace, West Ham, Fulton and Tottenham. The last two are better known, our famous striker Roman Pavlyuchenko played for Tottenham for a long time.
