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Even if Rupert Murdoch and all his minions had disappeared into a black hole in 1991, one way or another, televised coverage of football - and, with the advent of the internet, online broadcasting of it - was always going to evolve and increase. Even the money which has come along with that needn't necessarily have been a bad thing (consider the way Albion as a club benefitted from our yo-yo years, slowly developing from a near-bankrupt club to one with top-class facilities). However, the top-heavy distribution of that money has been catastrophic for the sport as a whole, and completely removed the ability of teams to compete on merit, which was part and parcel of football for well over a century.

Popping into the pub on a Monday night to watch a match? Not an unpleasant experience at all, and not one that football should necessarily abandon. Giving the top four clubs in the Premier League so much money that their dominance is permanently guaranteed and no one else can touch them with a barge pole? An unmitigated disaster, and one which should be challenged in any way possible.