I found this article, with which I almost entirely agree. So, I thought I'd put it up here for debate. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...owners-are-killing-the-game-fans-used-to-love
I'm posting before I've read the article, NSIS, but I expect the writer to say it's down to money. Increased ticket prices, shirt prices, TV viewing prices. Less competition. The PL table reads as a rich list. Teams are rarely + or - two places from their position in the money league. Occasionally teams break into the PL elite, but it's usually one of ten or so clubs who hover between bottom eight of the PL and top eight of the Championship. It would be a breath of fresh air if Bournemouth got promoted. Money has always been a factor - let's not be naive - but everything's out of kilter now.
Basically, yes. But it's a bit more involved that that, Luke. It delves into motives, and generally goes beyond just the money.
Sky is the problem. All you can do is be a well-run club that meets FFP like Chelsea. Chelsea winning league on fourth biggest wage bill and only £10m net spend = victory for football
Some very good points in that, it's hard to argue against the idea that the ridiculous amounts of TV money and mega rich owners are destroying football. But the fact is none of us complain about the TV money when we are sat watching 3 or 4 live games over the weekend and we don't complain when rich owners pump money in and get some of the best players in the world playing in the premier league. Essentially we as fans are nothing but massive hypocrites if we pay for sky subscriptions and then complain about sky ruining football. The fact is that the big money from both owners and the TV companies is here for the foreseeable future, that being said something needs to be done to lessen the gap between the haves and the have nots. I believe that responsibility lies with footballs governing bodies, who need to be stronger and develop more effective financial fair play rules applicable to all of the major leagues as the current ones are simply not working and aren't being enforced (lets be honest Man City and PSG shouldn't be playing European football this year). I found this quote particularly interesting and it's a perfect example of how FFP and the footballing authorities are doing nothing to give normal clubs a chance to compete against the established footballing elite. "Another inequality is the fact clubs such as Chelsea have around 26 players—worth around £100 million, according to the The Guardian's Owen Gibson—out on loan."
