Serie A (] ), also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Coppa Campioni d'Italia.
 It has been operating for over eighty years since the 1929–30 season.
 It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010–11 season.
 Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical national league.
 Serie A is the world's second-strongest national league according to IFFHS and has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists: Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record 27 different occasions, winning the title 12 times.
 Serie A is ranked third among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient, behind La Liga, the Premier League and ahead of the Bundesliga and the Ligue 1, which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League during the last five years.
 Serie A led the UEFA ranking from 1986 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999.
Michael John Standing (born 20 March 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
 Since terminating his playing career, Standing has become an agent for former teammate and long-term friend Gareth Barry.
 He has also played part-time for his hometown club, Shoreham.
The Homegrown Player Rule has been an initiative in England and the Premier League to allow for more domestic, English players to be a brought up from a younger age in hopes of creating more talented English players.
 Currently, the Premier League does not have a maximum restriction on the number of foreign players allowed on a team, but does require at least eight homegrown players.
 Greg Dyke, new chairman of the Football Association (FA), wants to implement much stronger regulation of foreign players.
 His intention is clear as stated in an op-ed piece so that England can win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
 Some of Dyke’s propositions include: homegrown players in a top-flight 25-man first-team squad be increased from eight to 12 two of which must be brought up in the teams youth system, and also changing the definition of what it is to be a homegrown player.
 Currently, to be classified as homegrown one must be on an English team for at least three years before the age of twenty-one in which Dyke would like to reduce to eighteen years.
 This would mean a teenager would have to be with the club at a maximum age of fifteen and players are not allowed to move across national boundaries, even European Union boundaries, before 16.
 Meaning such that, if a foreign player joined an English youth academy at sixteen, in three years time he would be nineteen.
 Thus said player failing to qualify as a homegrown player due to the fact he would be older than eighteen.
 This has become such a hot topic is because there are currently a group of players who have played 309 international games between them but none of them for England.
 While there is currently a list of foreign players, to show the disparity of homegrown players versus foreign players on any given team, the below picture will illustrate such ideas, SkySports hosts an image detailing the number of homegrown players in each Premier League team.
 With an apparent low number of English Players on some teams, especially the larger clubs, this "New York Times" graph in the article further outlines the disparity between table standings if the only goals scored in season counted were those scored by English players.
The 2015–16 Southampton F.C. season was the club's 17th season in the Premier League and their 39th in the top division of English football.
 It was also the club's first season in a European competition since 2003–04.
 Southampton finished the season in sixth place in the Premier League, having won 18, drawn 9 and lost 11 of their 38 matches.
 This result is the highest club finish in the Premier League and the highest Premier League points total (63) in the club's history.
 Aside from the league, the club was eliminated from the third round of the FA Cup, the fifth round of the League Cup, and the qualifying play-off round of the UEFA Europa League.
The Premier League 10 Seasons Awards were a set of English football awards which marked the first 10 years of competition in the Premier League, the top-level domestic league competition of professional football in England.
 The awards celebrated the first decade of the Premier League, which was formed in 1992 when the 20 clubs of the old First Division resigned en-masse from The Football League.
 Awards were presented in a number of categories for both teams and individuals, covering the period from the inaugural 1992–93 season which kicked off in August 1992, through to the 2001–02 season, which ended in May 2002.
 The awards were decided by the public through voting on the Premier League website and by a 10-man panel of footballing experts, drawn from representatives of the Premier League, League Managers Association, Professional Footballers' Association, as well as the football television and radio commentators and presenters and football journalists.
 Voting ran from December 2002 to February 2003, with the awards being announced throughout the month of April 2003.
 Nearly 750,000 votes were registered from 184 countries, in what the Premier League described as the "most widely subscribed fan awards ever held".
Gareth Barry (born 23 February 1981) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for West Bromwich Albion.
 He is the player with the highest number of appearances in the Premier League.
The following is a list of clubs who have played in the Premier League since its formation in 1992 to the current season.
 All statistics here refer to time in the Premier League only, with the exception of 'Most Recent Finish' (which refers to all levels of play) and 'Last Promotion' (which refers to the club's last promotion from the second tier of English football).
 For the 'Top Scorer' column, those in bold still play in the Premier League for the club shown.
 Premier League teams playing in the 2016–17 season are indicated in bold, while founding members of the Premier League are shown in "italics".
 If the longest spell is the current spell, this is shown in bold, and if the highest finish is that of the most recent season, then this is also shown in bold.
The 2008–09 Fulham season was the club's 111th professional season and their eighth consecutive season in the top flight of English football, the Premier League, since their return in 2001.
 They were managed by Roy Hodgson in his first full season as Fulham manager.
 They played in the Premier League by virtue of staying up on goal difference from Reading on the last day of the previous campaign and were hoping to improve on their placing of 17th.
 They eventually finished in seventh place in the Premier League table with 53 points, an improvement of ten places and 18 points.
 Their league position secured a place in the newly formed UEFA Europa League for the 2009–10 season as well as their highest League finish in their history.
 The club received a number of additional awards from the Premier League, namely the Fair Play Award, the "Behaviour of the Public Award" and the "Barclays Spirit Award" for manager Roy Hodgson.
The Welsh Premier League champions are the winners of the highest league in Welsh football, which is currently the Welsh Premier League, known as the League of Wales until the 2002–2003.
 Teams in bold are those who won the double of the Welsh Premier League Championship and Welsh Cup, those in "italic" are those that won the treble of the Welsh Premier League, Welsh Cup and Welsh League Cup in that season.
This is a summary of the highest scoring games and biggest winning margins in the Premier League since its establishment in the 1992–93 season.
 The record for the biggest win is Manchester United's 9–0 victory against Ipswich Town at Old Trafford on 4th March 1995.
 Tottenham Hotspur are the only other club to have scored nine goals in a Premier League game - in their 9–1 victory over Wigan Athletic at White Hart Lane on 22 November 2009.
 This game also boasts the record number of goals scored by both teams in one half of Premier League football (nine), and by one team in one half of Premier League football (eight, by Tottenham).
 Manchester United also hold the record for the biggest winning margin away from home with an 8–1 victory over Nottingham Forest at the City Ground in Nottingham on 6 February 1999.

Question: Who is the agent for the player with the highest number of appearances in the Premier League?
Answer: Michael John Standing