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Inevitably Football will eat itself when Season-ticket-holders finally have had enough and stay away.

Not going to happen, unfortunately. While most football fans at most levels of the game know full well how unfair the financial set-up is, the dream of reaching the Premier League one day is still enough to keep people showing up week in, week out. The only fans who get jaded enough to really stop caring about the sport are those like us who've spent years in the Prem, hit the glass ceiling hard and realised just how pointless the whole division is.

The global TV market is what's creating the wealth in English football, and as the powers-that-be are throwing all their weight into tapping new markets in Asia and North America, it's not going to dry up any time soon, even if everyone in the UK ditched their Sky subscriptions. A breakaway Euro league is the only workable solution, but if the big clubs go then the riches will go with them, and within years we'll be back to crumbling old stadiums and shit facilities. Maybe that trade-off would be worthwhile, but it'd be nice to think that there's a happy medium.