I believe the EPL is the more competitive than the Italian and Spanish Leagues.These leagues are dominated by two teams each,Inter Milan and AC Milan and Barca and Real.M.On the other hand the EPL has 4 teams that dominate,making it hard for one player to consistently excel..

Malouda? Really? Have you ever watched football? Or do you simply listen to Chelsea's marketing executives? I'd say the same about Lampard, who hasn't been great for a few seasons and who has never been great for the National team. And Fabregas? While good, there's a reason why he hasn't gone to Barcelona, and it's because he wouldn't get into the team.

I think on a position-by-position basis, the English players didn't do as well as their compatriots overseas. Are you going to put Rooney above Messi or Ronaldo or Villa? Unless you're English, the answer is no. Are you going to put Fabregas over Xavi? Same answer, unless you're English.

EPL may be about pace and physicality, but the ROW doesn't care about that. There seems to be this EPL cocoon that somehow values whatever the EPL is good at more... ROW doesn't agree.

If the EPL players are so good, then they are welcome to go to other "easier" leagues which according to the theory should allow them to win awards right? Not happening.

English Premier League is the most marketable league, this is the same league that brought you David Beckham and said is one of the best .

or said Wayne Rooney is the the white pele,lol

real football is found in liga, bundesliga and serie A

if have observed most players that play in epl dont do well in the wc

apart from ronaldo and owen how many players from the epl have won world player of the year in the last 20 plus years?

Why do we always have at least 3 of the epl clubs in the sem finals of the uefa champ.league for the last 5 yrs?? do we rate football according to stats or acording to how much we hate what we have no reason to hate?? its all rediculous. Soccer, like the whole world, has gone crazy. just look at the goal of the yr and u'll laugh your head off!!!! Barbatov scores more beautiful goals day in day out. This hatred will do the game no good.

There is so much anti English bias around it's not funny. Obviously, it's born out of pure jealousy because English clubs get so much money. Why do they attract so much cash from TV and sponsors? Because they produce the most watchable most consistent product with which those sponsors want to be associated. There are so many rubbish games in Spain and Italy where top teams can play badly and still coast to victory. Let's face it, there are just two teams in Spain, Barcelona and Real Madrid, the rest of the league is a joke. In Italy you've got the Milan sides, plus Roma, Lazio and Juventus in a good year, the rest are garbage. In Germany, Bayern Munich normally dominate in anything but a freak season like this one. In England they consistently have the big-four. (Liverpool's having a meltdown right now, but they've replaced by Man City), but Tottenham is knocking on the door, and every one of the remaining clubs in the league will give any one of the top teams a real game and sometimes beat them, Look at the Premier League table right now...a couple of slips by a top-10 team and they're hovering around the relegation zone. That shows how competitive it is, and how much parity there is in this league compared to the others. It's not a level playing field in terms of finances, but even the poorer clubs have the ability and pride to give it a go, and even if the likes of Manchester United do eventually end up taking the silverware, at least the fans have been entertained, which is the whole purpose of the football industry!. But, if your idea of a great league is watching the same two or three teams beat everyone year in year out, have at it! Watch La Liga or Serie A or the Bundesliga go round on a loop season after season. But for a real competition you can't beat the Premier League, and, with the money it generates thrown in, that's why so many international players want to test themselves in England.

any as it matters liga, bundesliga and serie A will always produce the best players than ep[.

they continue to win world cups and other trophies

from 1992 when the Premier League was formed only 4 teams have won but during the same period la liga teams have that won la liga r 5,it could have been 6 if sevila did choke on the last day.

from 1992 – 2010 elp winners =Chelsea,Man u,Arsenal,Blackburn

la liga same period(Barcelona, Real,Valencia,Deportivo,Atlético)

Rooney is over rated... no surprise there. Best EPL player right now has got to be either Gareth Bale or Samir Nasri. Both have been absolutely stellar thus far this season.

FIFA's awards are for individual performances not for competitiveness of the League or the amount of revenue or viewership it generates. If the EPL was so fantastic, how come almost all EPL teams are completely made up of foreigners? British footballers are more team-players than individual game changers. Can you compare Drogba with David Villa? Or Fabregas with Xavi (or Iniesta); or John Terry with Carles Puyol (despite the age difference). The truth is that you seem to be in love with everything British. Of the five EPL players you mentioned, only two are British and no one can deny that they are the worst of the five. Conclusion: the EPL is overated and overfunded (as with every other thing British). How come your "all-mighty" David Beckham never won the Ballon D'or? The "all-great" Thierry Henry had to leave Arsenal where he had become a god in order to win a european trophy. Manchester City have inflated the value of even the most untallented footballers of all time, what's worse is that they haven't anything to show for all the money they're spending, except maybe mediocre performances. Or the most recent "Twitter Scandal" of Howard Webb in a Manchester United Shirt? Truth is, there's more drama in the EPL than on any soap opera (No wonder it makes so much money)

I love watching EPL than any other league in the world. But if you ask me to, I wouldn't put any of the current EPL players in the top 20 global elite players.

No rooney is not overated. he's just playing in the wrong position. He can do everything perfectly well on the pitch except scoring goals. In my opinion, he can be the best attacking midfielder, even better than Lamps but am not Fergie.

EPL is such an entertaining league, so unpredictable and that's what we want as a spectator. italian and spanish league is good too but it's so predictable.

about the all star selection – no doubt that the EPL players are good players as well but I was surprised by that selection too, but look at that fifa player of the yaer being messi which I believe a lot of people will not agree coz those spainsh players are way much better than him, especially during world cup. messi appears to be good only in barca, where their midfield line is so sufficiently supported so he can do all the attacking he wants smoothly.

EPL is a better league any day.Take this season for instance the level of competition currently being seen hasnt been for quite a long time.Its too close a call to really know who will win the league. La liga either Baca or Real M and its just the half way point. Wonder what would happen if the the top five in each league English, Spanish, Italian, German were put in a league of their own with the same demands as EPL would we see the same Messi or Ronaldo hattricks or tally of goals?.......I highly doubt. Ronaldo will tell you he is having a ball in La liga netting goals than if he was in EPL why coz there is no competition

I tend to agree that there are some good players in the EPL, but none is better than the 11 players selected. The EPL is overrated. English have to look inside and fix their own problems instead of blaming everybody else (FIFA, UEFA, voters, etc., etc.). The EPL has been the richest league for years in terms of money spent (...often wasted), and when there have been English players selected, I didn't hear anybody from England blaming FIFA, UEFA, the voters, the voting system, etc etc. Look inside before you start blaming others. Learn some humility on defeat.

Here in Nigeria, i am opportuned to watch a lot of European soccer and i can say that despite spain winning the world cup or Barcelona's dominance, the premier leaguee is still the toughest, totally unpredictable matches especially this season, it is not always like that anywhere else and EPL player(s) deserves a slot on Fifa's allstars list but anyway, the voters surely have their opinion but i disagree with them.

FIFA MEMBERS WITH BLATTER ARE VERY GELOSE HOW ENGLISH FOOTBALL IS VERY BEAUTIFULL AND NICE ,THAT S ALL,.

Buhahahaha. That's just it! You said it all! EPL is just run run run. And it is amazing how people forget so easily how bad English football was until Man United decided to play a more continental way rather than the kick and chase. Added to the fact that more non english players are dominating the EPL thus producing a more substantial success. Otherwise EPL would still be in the shadows of French Football. Of course there is always a bias towards a certain nation but considering Barca is so dominant and even so in the Champions League yet english clubs struggle internationally... I wonder what THAT says lol.