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In addition to the predictability, another factor that is turning fans away from the Premier League is the huge salaries and inflated egos that accompany the game's top players, plus the prima donnna behaviour, diving, etc that depresses most genuine football fans. There was a time when fans could identify with their club's players. The players were just like them, except that they'd had the good fortune to be able to win a living from playing football. Nowadays, it's very hard to feel any connection with guys who earn 100,00 per week and who live in mansions and date supermodels.

So whilst the lower leagues may have less talented players, they do still encapsalate what fans have always been so passionate about. The idea that your team has a chance at the start of the season. The freedom to dream, even if those dreams get crushed as the season unfolds. Of course, you can still follow the Premier League and marvel at the skills on display in that league. I would advocate, though, that you also pick teams to follow in the other English Football League divisions. The chances are that your chosen teams will be battling tooth and nail, either for promotion, a play-off spot, or to avoid relegation right up until the final weeks of the season.

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