[vincerooney]

its a fairly weak premier league to be honest. A lot of smaller clubs have been promoted over the last few years (fair play to them) but they dont have a big fanbase to really bring in the eyes both at the ground and to the tv.

for example tonight it was stoke vs swansea. At no point did i want to watch that. Its a nothing game.

Big teams are in lower leagues where they have less games on tv. for example newcastle, forest, leeds, sheff wed, birmingham are all big teams who would attract more viewers.

Bournemouth are a small club, Hull really dont bring anything to the table and watford seem to be a sort of generic london club (there are far too many london clubs currently)

champions league tv viewership can be explained by the fact that man utd and liverpool arent in the competition. They would a ton of viewership both in this country and around the world.

The casual viewer wont watch tottenham vs someone. Tottenham fans would. The neutral fan would watch liverpool or man utd vs someone. Purely either out of intrigue or to hope they lose but it'd still get more viewers.