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THE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE THREAD (EPL) 
Welcome to the thread of the greatest football league in the world. here you will find fixtures and results as well discussion! The Premier League is an English professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League. The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each. It is sponsored by Barclays Bank and therefore officially known as the Barclays Premier League. The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal. The Premier League has since become the world's most watched sporting league.[1] It is the world's most lucrative football league, with combined club revenues of £1.93 billion ($3.15bn) in 2007–08.[2] It is also ranked first in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years, ahead of Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A.[3] A total of 43 clubs have competed in the Premier League, but only four have won the title: Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, and Chelsea. The current champions are Manchester United, who won their eleventh Premier League title in the 2008–09 season, the most of any Premier League team. History Origins Despite significant European success during the 1970s, the 1980s had marked a low point for English football. Stadiums were crumbling, supporters endured poor facilities, hooliganism was rife, and English clubs were banned from European competition following the events at Heysel in 1985.[4] The Football League First Division, which had been the top level of English football since 1888, was well behind leagues such as Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga in attendances and revenues, and several top English players had moved abroad.[5] However, by the turn of the 1990s the downward trend was starting to reverse; England had been successful in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, reaching the semi-finals. UEFA, European football's governing body, lifted the five-year ban on English clubs playing in European competitions in 1990 and the Taylor Report on stadium safety standards, which proposed expensive upgrades to create all-seater stadiums in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, was published in January of that year.[6] Premier League champions Season Winner 1992–93 Manchester United 1993–94 Manchester United 1994–95 Blackburn Rovers 1995–96 Manchester United 1996–97 Manchester United 1997–98 Arsenal 1998–99 Manchester United 1999–2000 Manchester United 2000–01 Manchester United 2001–02 Arsenal 2002–03 Manchester United 2003–04 Arsenal 2004–05 Chelsea 2005–06 Chelsea 2006–07 Manchester United 2007–08 Manchester United 2008–09 Manchester United Television money had also become much more important; the Football League received £6.3million for a two-year agreement in 1986, but when that deal was renewed in 1988, the price rose to £44m over four years.[7] The 1988 negotiations were the first signs of a breakaway league; ten clubs threatened to leave and form a "super league", but were eventually persuaded to stay.[8] As stadiums improved and match attendance and revenues rose, the country's top teams again considered leaving the Football League in order to capitalise on the growing influx of money being pumped into the sport. FoundationAt the close of the 1991 season, a proposal for the establishment of a new league was tabled that would bring more money into the game overall. The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League.[9] The newly formed top division would have commercial independence from the Football Association and the Football League, giving the FA Premier League license to negotiate its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. This was considered necessary so that English clubs could once again compete with and beat the best of Europe, while attracting the best talent in the world, something which in 1991 seemed practically unthinkable.[10] In 1992 the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League en masse and on 27 May 1992 the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company working out of an office at the Football Association's then headquarters in Lancaster Gate.[5] This meant a break-up of the 104-year-old Football League that had operated until then with four divisions; the Premier League would operate with a single division and the Football League with three. There was no change in competition format; the same number of teams competed in the top flight, and promotion and relegation between the Premier League and the new First Division remained on the same terms as between the old First and Second Divisions. The 22 inaugural members of the new Premier League were Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Oldham Athletic, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, and Wimbledon. Premier League Stadia 2009-10 Home Club  Stadium Name Capacity Manchester United Old Trafford 76,212 Arsenal Emirates Stadium 60,355 Sunderland Stadium of Light 49,000 Manchester City City of Manchester Stadium 47,726 Liverpool Anfield 45,522 Aston Villa Villa Park 42,573 Chelsea Stamford Bridge 42,055 Everton Goodison Park 40,158 Tottenham Hotspur White Hart Lane 36,310 West Ham United Boleyn Ground 35,303 Blackburn Rovers Ewood Park 31,367 Birmingham City St. Andrew's 30,016 Wolverhampton Wanderers Molineux 29,396 Bolton Wanderers Reebok Stadium 28,723 Stoke City Britannia Stadium 28,383 Fulham Craven Cottage 26,600 Hull City KC Stadium 25,404 Wigan Athletic DW Stadium25,138 Burnley Turf Moor 22,546 Portsmouth Fratton Park 20,688  RESULTS
Tuesday 18th August 2009
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Sunderland v Chelsea 1 : 3
Wigan Athletic v Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 : 1
Wednesday 19th August 2009
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Birmingham City v Portsmouth 1 : 0
Burnley v Manchester United 1 : 0
Hull City v Tottenham Hotspur 1 : 5
Liverpool v Stoke City 4 : 0
FIXTURES Monday 24th August 2009  Liverpool v Aston Villa 20:00 Anfield Saturday 29th August 2009  Chelsea v Burnley 12:45 Stamford Bridge
 Blackburn Rovers v West Ham United 15:00 Ewood Park  Bolton Wanderers v Liverpool 15:00 Reebok Stadium
 Stoke City v Sunderland 15:00 Britannia Stadium
 Tottenham Hotspur v Birmingham City 15:00 White Hart Lane
 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Hull City 15:00 Molineux
 Manchester United v Arsenal 17:15 Old Trafford
Sunday 30th August 2009  Portsmouth v Manchester City 13:30 Fratton Park
 Everton v Wigan Athletic 15:00 Goodison Park
Aston Villa v Fulham 16:00 Villa Park CURRENT STANDINGS
PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE:
1. Tottenham................3 (+6) 9
2. Chelsea......................3 (+5) 9
3. Arsenal......................2 (+8) 6
4. Man United.................3 (+5) 6
5. Man City...................2 (+3) 6
6. Burnley......................3 (0) 6
7. Sunderland................3 (0) 6
8. Birmingham City............3 (0) 4
9. Stoke City.................3 (-2) 4
10. Liverpool..................2 (+3) 3
11. West Ham..................2 (+1) 3
12. Fulham......................2 (-1) 3
13. Wolves.....................3 (-2) 3
14. Hull City...................3 (-4) 3
15. Wigan.......................3 (-4) 3
16. Aston Villa...................1 (-2) 0
17. Bolton.......................2 (-2) 0
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18. Blackburn....................2 (-3) 0
19. Portsmouth................3 (-5) 0
20. Everton.....................2 (-6) 0
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