Everything But the Premier League | Is the Premier League still enjoyable for promoted clubs?01
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00:02 - To hopefully back me up on that,
00:08 but maybe not be quite so downbeat.
00:11 Danny, is it worth it?
00:14 I kind of posted a few weeks ago saying,
00:18 does anyone actually enjoy Grimmly?
00:20 And I didn't do that off the back of Sheffield United.
00:23 I actually did it off the back of the furore
00:27 over the VAR at Liverpool Tottenham,
00:32 in the Liverpool Tottenham match,
00:33 because I knew that that was gonna make up
00:36 all of our football content for the next week at least.
00:41 And it was driving me mad.
00:44 However, given my following,
00:48 there was obviously quite a few Sheffield United fans
00:51 in there, and they came back to me and said,
00:55 they obviously thought I was talking about United,
00:58 but they came back to me and many of them said
01:02 a variation of the same thing,
01:04 that the journey is much more enjoyable
01:07 than the destination.
01:09 And is that something that you also agree with?
01:13 - I think that's fair.
01:16 First of all, I'm trying to think of the fleeting moments
01:18 of joy that you talked about so far this season.
01:21 I'm trying to think what they might have been.
01:23 - There was a goal against Man City.
01:24 - There was a goal, yeah.
01:25 - There was a goal against Man United,
01:27 and that's about it really, isn't it?
01:30 - Yeah, we're scraping the barrel, aren't we?
01:33 But yeah, I completely agree on the whole journey
01:37 being better than the destination sort of theme.
01:39 It's difficult to sort of, to touch on really, isn't it?
01:44 Because everyone pulls apart the 8-0 at home to Newcastle,
01:48 everyone pulls apart the 5-0 at Arsenal,
01:51 but almost as frustrating for me have been the games
01:54 when United have been in scoreline so close.
01:58 But in reality, the gap, even to teams that are on paper,
02:03 not light years ahead of Sheffield United,
02:05 to Palace on the first day of the season.
02:07 - Forrest is that one.
02:08 - Forrest, the way, yeah.
02:10 Games like that to Everton, when you think
02:13 these shouldn't be stratospheres away
02:17 from where Sheffield United are,
02:18 but just those, obviously not in terms of Everton,
02:21 but in terms of Palace and Forrest even,
02:24 those couple of years in the Premier League
02:26 and what that sort of does for you as a club
02:27 and where that takes you,
02:29 the gap was just so big in terms of the resources,
02:34 the players that, you know,
02:37 Chris Wood came off the bench and we know
02:38 what he sort of earns a week
02:40 and the numbers are absolutely frightening.
02:42 And, you know, he's a player that Forrest
02:44 were trying to actually get rid of
02:46 and he'd walk into United's team
02:48 but they just couldn't afford him.
02:49 That's the sort of reality of life in the Premier League.
02:53 And that's been the most frustrating thing for me.
02:54 You know, when promoter teams come up
02:57 being pumped by a big team like Arsenal
02:59 who were sort of chasing the Premier League
03:01 and that sort of stuff,
03:02 that's not a massive kind of shock to me.
03:05 It's the sort of games when you think
03:08 that the gap should be, you know,
03:09 a hell of a lot smaller than it really is.
03:12 And when you sort of realise what these clubs have
03:14 and what they're dealing with
03:16 and how far United look from them,
03:19 I think that's the real eye-opener to me.
03:21 You know, teams like Sheffield United and Luton and Burnley,
03:24 they're not going to be defined by losing to Arsenal
03:27 or being pumped by Newcastle
03:28 or losing to City or United or whatever.
03:31 It's that sort of mini league at the bottom
03:32 that they're sort of exclusively competing in.
03:37 And, you know, at the minute,
03:38 United look quite a way off that even.
03:40 You know, all I can say is last week,
03:42 we're in our own mini league of maybe six to eight teams,
03:45 but at the minute, the bottom of that as well.
03:48 So that's the sort of biggest thing for me
03:50 in terms of the gap between what you would describe as,
03:55 with the greatest respect, average Premier League teams.
03:59 And even they seem so far ahead of where United are
04:02 at the minute, and that's the biggest concern for me.
04:07 - Do you think, and I've been thinking about this
04:08 for a little while.
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