01-09-2020, 15:52
It started going downhill before Sky. It was 1983 when the big clubs pressured the FA to put an end to gate-sharing in league games, so away teams no longer got a cut of the revenue from a trip to a big ground, and that set the tone for everything that followed. No surprises that Man Utd were among the prime movers in that particular bit of chicanery.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley