20-04-2021, 13:18
I've said for years that Sky was the best and worst thing to happen to English football.
The best because it did make football popular again after the dark days of football hooligans of the 70's and 80's
It enabled the English public to see the likes of Zola, Ronaldo, Hazard, De Bruyne, Juninho, Salah the list is endless.
Football Grounds improved
But then they (the clubs) forgot where they came from.
They raised ticket prices that priced out the working class supporter
They sold out to the Prawn sarnie brigade.
They no longer had time for UK sponsor never mind a local sponsor, they sold to the highest bidder which was usually a Far east betting company.
A quick look at the figures for last season
Total Prize money £2,451,000,000 for the twenty clubs
that's made up from TV money home and abroad, Commercial shared revenue and Merit share(final positions)
Of that the Big 6 took £869,000,000(roughly 35%)
Averaging £173.8m for each of them
The other 14 clubs £113m on average
That's nearly a 54% increase in revenue for the Big 6 and yet they want more.
None of the above takes in the fact that most of these clubs have the biggest capacity to create revenue, in fact when Spurs opened the new ground it was said that catering was worth £1m a match
Man Utd 74k
Spurs 62k
Arsenal 60k
Man City 55k
Liverpool 53k
Chelsea 40k
The best because it did make football popular again after the dark days of football hooligans of the 70's and 80's
It enabled the English public to see the likes of Zola, Ronaldo, Hazard, De Bruyne, Juninho, Salah the list is endless.
Football Grounds improved
But then they (the clubs) forgot where they came from.
They raised ticket prices that priced out the working class supporter
They sold out to the Prawn sarnie brigade.
They no longer had time for UK sponsor never mind a local sponsor, they sold to the highest bidder which was usually a Far east betting company.
A quick look at the figures for last season
Total Prize money £2,451,000,000 for the twenty clubs
that's made up from TV money home and abroad, Commercial shared revenue and Merit share(final positions)
Of that the Big 6 took £869,000,000(roughly 35%)
Averaging £173.8m for each of them
The other 14 clubs £113m on average
That's nearly a 54% increase in revenue for the Big 6 and yet they want more.
None of the above takes in the fact that most of these clubs have the biggest capacity to create revenue, in fact when Spurs opened the new ground it was said that catering was worth £1m a match
Man Utd 74k
Spurs 62k
Arsenal 60k
Man City 55k
Liverpool 53k
Chelsea 40k