• Crystal Palace is a working class team which currently has a few very good young players. I respect them, but if you’re going to choose them as your team get ready for a very unattractive brand of football (at least for now) and a fight against relegation every season.
• Arsenal has been my team since I was five years old. We’ve been avergae and sometimes plain bad for the best part of 20 years now, but the last three seasons have been huge steps in the right direction. Attractive and attacking football are an essential part of the identity of Arsenal since the mid 90s and we currently have a very likeable group of young, very good players. It’s a great time to be a fan.
• Manchester United are like the Boston Celtics of the premier league, but their history is much more recent and is still relevant despite how bad they’ve been for 10 years now. Great team with a huge fanbase around the world and they are bound to come back from where they’ve been for a while now, which is something we’ve been saying a lot for a few years but their organisation is just very bad despite the recources they have, still, they’re too big of a club with too much money to find themselves out of the top six for a long period of time.
• Barcelona would’ve been a great choice in the mid 2000s or the early 2010s but currently they’re a shadow of what they were even if they are run a little bit more competently than a couple of years ago and they’re winning domestic titles. Great club that used to have the identity of the most beautiful and attractive style of play (for me at least) but they’ve become more pragmatic in the last few years.