[spireitematt]

The tv revenue has been brilliant for the PL, the problem is the affect it has had on the rest of the pyramid.

It has but we need to remember football isn't a TV show it's a sport. With all the money a wash in the Premier League you would think that clubs would lower ticket prices for fans and make it more affordable. The money that teams in the Premier League now get from gate receipts is only a small percent when you compare it to sponsorship and TV deals. As for the rest of the pyramid they get the crumbs off the table of the Premier League with this trickle down effect which doesn't work.

A lot of these owners and people who run the game don't understand the game, they see things through numbers on spreadsheets and graphs. Fans need to have more of a say in how the game is run and how clubs are run because football belongs to everybody not just the selected few.

I agree but to many sport is a tv show, either they cannot get to games, cannot afford it or just don't have a passion for it like we do, but they do contribute to it in their own way.  Armchair fans are only a problem if they would normally be going to games and since the PL came about attendances are higher across the leagues.  Like you say the issue here isn't the money, its the distribution of the money and the trickle down that needs to happen.  I think we would all like to have owners who not only know football but are lifelong fans of the clubs, but in reality what we need are owners who are going to run the club with responsibility.

Which is why fans should be allowed a say with fan ownership or something similar to the 50+1 rule like they have in Germany.

What really irks me about all this is American millionaire and billionaires coming over to England and buying clubs and then telling us how we should do football. Just who the hell do these people think they are? The current system we have with the pyramid and promotion and relegation works, it might not be perfect but it works. We don't want a league or a system like the NBA, NFL, NHL etc where it's closed off and if you finish bottom of the league then you are in that league next year. We like to see the underdog beat the giants.