Has it occurred to anyone that Alexi Lalas is actually an unwitting agent of the American state, programmed to throw a liberal western democracy into chaos, though not by assassinating a controversial politician with a well-lubricated media machine, but by defaming a controversial football league with a well-lubricated marketing machine. Clearly the English Premiership’s house of cards is a mere flick of the finger away from collapse, as evidenced by the in-fighting precipitated by an interview the former U.S. international gave to the (formerly Manchester) Guardian. There’s not much to say, really. Is it credible to assume that Lalas genuinely believes that the Premiership an inferior product. Probably. After all, he is not forwarding the argument that the English top flight is worse that its American counterpart, merely that an aggressive marketing strategy has convinced many around the world that English football is of a greater qual
ity than the top-heavy nature of the league more genuinely indicates. Isn’t he on the money there?
Or is he just distracting football lovers in England while corporate America annexes the Premier League?
Alexi responds to his English critics
