The Premier League Is Like The PS1

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After his performance on Sunday, there has been some talk of Erling Haaland breaking Alan Shearer’s Premier League goal scoring record. Given that Haaland has played a single game and is some 258 goals off Shearer, this might be a little premature. Haaland would need to score 30 goals a year for the next nine seasons to best Shearer, which puts his exploits into perspective. But what a lot of people don’t realise is that Shearer actually scored 283 top flight goals, but ‘only’ 260 of them were in the Premier League. He’s also second overall to Jimmy Greaves’ 357, whose career took place decades prior to the Premier League. This is why it feels like the PS1 is just like the Premier League.

Everything in football changed when the Premier League arrived 30 years ago. For better or worse, the game has never been the same again. A huge injection of cash, rapid globalisation, the creation of household superstars, and a massive increase in sporting quality followed. These days, by most metrics the Premier League is the greatest league in the world. La Liga sometimes bloodies the PL’s nose, and the Bundesliga has Bayern, but the Premier League is in charge. It hasn’t always been this way - traditionally Serie A was the best of the best, but an agonisingly slow modernisation, hamstrung by corruption, has seen it slip into a battle for fourth with Ligue 1.

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Likewise, gaming existed before the PS1, but things feel very much like a before and after. With the arrival of the PS1 came a huge injection of cash, rapid globalisation, the creation of household superstars, and a massive increase in graphical quality followed. Sony was a bit-part player in gaming,