We only got to the top tier in 2008, with plenty of hard times in the last quarter of the last century. But this who has the better fans talk is always pointless. People will do whatever they want with their time and money. Football was most popular after WW2, and that's when attendances were the biggest. If anything football attendances are likely to decline with prices, streaming, and alternatives. And football players are definitely overpaid.
Football was most popular after WW2 because most people worked Saturday morning and went straight to football. There wasn’t much else to do for cheap entertainment. Crowds are the highest they have been since the 1960s. The Championship average of around 27,000 is higher than most leagues in Europe, only the PL, Bundesliga and a couple more beating it. Film stars, pop stars, racing drivers, golfers and tennis players are overpaid compared to more useful people. It is the market.
