Quote Leeeigh Leeeigh="Leeeigh Leeeigh"Another game in a mess - [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/23/premier-league-clubs-europe-debt£3.5 billion of debt of clubs in PL[/url, who also dwarf european clubs for income gained from TV deals and any other sport. Just imagine if TV pulled the plug on them. That's not including clubs going under/administration on seemingly weekly basis.
Its not easy trying to control that monster of greed and must have success at any price - the football authorities certainly have failed there. Ask Portsmouth fans - who checks new owners out?
This is just another bitter thread that appears on here regularly.'"
Not a bitter thread, a thread started with a bunch of facts. Oh and on your TV argument, how many tv stations wanted the football, how much coverage gets sold from one station to another. Now compare that with RL, Sky doesn't even have to televise the championship, it certainly doesn't pay for it, the co-op do. Is anyone else interested, no.
Has it not occured to you yet that people are slowly starting to realise the mess we are now in, due to sponsorship being almost 100% from one source, and therein lies the problem as pointed out earlier in the thread. What will the clubs do in SL when the next SKY deal is 10 mill down on the last one because they certainly won't be able to replace that elsewhere, and if they try to the Sky will just pull the plug. They regularly get less than 90,000 viewers for the SL games. Put it this way, if Sky was my business, I would have realised by now that, if I wanted to I could destroy SL. The championship clubs however, would not be massively affected as they are raising far more of thir own funds as a percentage of what they need
