12-02-2015, 00:35
(11-02-2015, 16:33)Thurnscoe_OWL Wrote: It's wrong though. This £5.1bn will just sit in the Premier League. We're getting less of the stories of Giant Killings in the cups and the gap between divisions is growing by the season. If you ask the people of Spain, Italy, France why football in Engalnd is the best in the world they will tell you it is because our league system is competitive all the way down and on their day, anyone can beat anyone.
This money will be spunked away on a few shit players from abroad whilst we have teams in the lower reaches of our system going bust over debts that are equal to on third of a weeks wages in the Prem.
We're eroding what English football was all about and helping those at the top keep themselves at the top.
I agree the gap between the divisions is definitely growing in terms of money, but as long as its still 3 up and 3 down, teams will have the opportunity to go up, but it will be a bit harder.
As regards giant killings, what about Bradford last season and this season at Chelsea, the Blunts have beaten a few prem teams in the last couple of years, Wigan beating Man city last year etc etc,. They are still there. I think the reason why people like the prem is because at the start of the season there are 4-6 teams who could possibly win it, there is not other major European league where that occurs!! In Spain it Real and Barca, with one other team thrown into the mix every few years, in Germany its Bayern, in Italy it Juve or AC Milan, in France its PSG, in Scotland its Celtic and so on. The premier league may well be streets ahead of the Championship in terms of money but it is still the most open league in European football.
As I said yesterday, the top teams have always kept the top places for themselves with very few other teams breaking into it, they just now get even more money for it. I actually thing the Champions League does more damage to the game as the prize money for that is huge and sets the teams in it well apart from their domestic rivals who are not in it. This has been a problem for Spurs, Everton, Liverpool and even Man Utd in the last couple of years. Also, not that FFP has been brought in, having a super rich owner doesn't actually mean as much, but participation in the CL means a lot of revenue that only 4 teams can get, and year on year that perpetuates their participation each year!!