MANCHESTER, England : The Premier League celebrated its 30th anniversary on Monday, marking three decades that has seen English club football transformed into the world's leading sports entertainment product.
The American style approach, evident in mimicking the NFL's 'Monday Night Football', pushed the popularity of the national sport to new levels but at first some baulked at the razzmatazz. There were only 13 players from outside the British Isles on the opening weekend of the first Premier League season in 1992 but in the 30 years that followed players from 120 countries have featured in the league with 63 nationalities represented last season.
There have only been seven clubs who have won the league with only Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City coming from outside of the major cities.
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