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Court Winding Up Petition 28th October 2020

Going a bit off topic and on a tangent, but thinking about how big an industry professional football is in this country and the sorry state we are in just cannot be right. I totally accept that essentially all lower league clubs are in the same boat, and we (ron) have made some poor investments over the last 20 years when of course priority should have been paying the bills.

Premier league clubs spent 800m during the biggest global pandemic of a generation, and yet here we are on the brink of oblivion over 500k. I know bailing out clubs every time they can't pay their bills isn't the answer, but there has to be something to redistribute the grotesque wealth generated in football in this country. There has to be an answer or this is just going to happen again and again with more clubs fading into history. Sad.

Years ago, when the Premier League was being formed, a football finance expert predicted that the country can't sustain 92 professional clubs and that, given time, the lower leagues would either disappear or become part time. The PL said they were doing it to reduce the number of matches played at the highest level which would have a positive impact on the England team. (Did anyone really believe that bollocks?) Oh, and because they didn't like the distribution of TV money at the time. They believed they deserved more. Given that, I can't see how they will agree to a fairer distribution of wealth. It simply won't happen unless they get something in return. On their agenda will be things like:

  • The ability to steal young prospects for even less than they currently do
  • B teams in the EFL (regardless of the arguments for why that will never happen)
  • Feeder clubs
  • Add your worst case scenario here
 
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