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prefered football on muddy pitches when you could get stuck in....more exciting. can't hack this chess like football nowadays, back to the keeper, keeper kicks it out , back to the keeper, unless your really good at it.
Premier League started things for sure but globalisation was the final nail in the coffin. Club owners who literally couldn't give a **** about the punters as there are always millions more watching who will never even visit the city their team is based in.
It isn't just here though, part of the ESL thing was in affect several other foreign clubs wanting to get a slice of the pie, as their own leagues cannot compete, for whatever reason.
I guess you could say it started with Blackburn actually buying in but the big change started probably with 2003 Chelsea being bought, however the actual globalisation is hard to know exactly how and when it started, the development of the internet making easier access abroad?
Still not sure how much the clubs really make in real terms from the fans the "claim" to have.
Alot of the vast sums seem to come from sponsorship and "partnerships" all over the place, and I guess branding perhaps - esdpecially in Asia, how much really comes from the average "fan" you see with a shirt on their back, I am not sure.
All started before the Premier League when the greedy bastards at Man U strong armed the clubs on gate receipts so that the home club could keep all the gate receipts.
Rather ironic those cretins banging on about the Glazers.
There was a disparity in the 80s, but the "Big Five" did not include the Scum, who were average around 16,000 although the 44,000 they get there have all been going "since the 80s".
It was the Premier League, Abramovic, the Sheikh and Liverpool's owners that have tried to take this all this to the next level.
Ironic that United were debt free when the Glazer's came in and are now reportedly £400m in debt.
Utter insanity and the only way they are going to carry on is by continuing the imbalance and finding ways to tap into their worldwide fanbase whatever the rules put in front of them say.
Horrible game, horrible business at that level; genuinely glad we're out of it (for the time being anyway). Still, as one of the Founder Members of the Premier League, we have to take a part of the blame...
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