Andy Holt

[Lord Stiffupperlip]

We all know that real power in football today is in the hands of Sky & other big media interests, not the EPL or EFL.
He who pays the piper calls the tune!
Match times are dictated to suit TV schedules & beggar the inconvenience for fans.
Who decided that the last games in league 2 should kick off at 5.30pm?
Or that the final Championship matches should be mid-day on Sunday?
Was it some suit from the FA, or was it perhaps a TV executive?
The football authorities are in the pockets of the TV companies.
They pay lip service to football via the so-called 'solidarity payment', but they're scraps compared to the millions being generated.
It doesn't matter to those armchair fans watching live Premier League games that they can't pronounce half the names of the players they're watching, or that the manager needs an interpreter for a post-match interview.
What matters is that they keep paying for their Sky armchair 'season ticket'.
Andy Holt is right! League 2 clubs have to rely almost entirely for revenue from their gate receipts, whereas EPL clubs are handed money on a plate.
The top of the tree is in full bloom, but the roots are being starved.
One day it will come crashing down.
I know what I'd do with their letter Andy - somebody turn the shredder on!

[st06nc2]

Originally Posted by DAV007

Andy Holt is on the hawksbee and Jacobs show on talksport at some point between 1-4pm.

If you miss it, he will be on the show podcast which comes out around 7pm

Listened to the show, no Andy holt, not even on pods at so don't know where you got this info from

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

Only a sexist fool would come out with something like that.

The big guy treats the small guy like **** throughout capitalist society, you can't support it in some circumstances and not in others.

It was millionaire chairman who started the mess, and now it is the billionaires turn. A chairman throwing his toys out of the pram after 25 years like he has just woke up and realised is puzzling.

If it makes you happy,proving what i said you are,thats fine with me.

[Lord Stiffupperlip]

The minnows bite back!
Article in today's copy of the Daily Mail on this.
Right next to the investigation into the Pogba corruption story - very apt!

[Inspector Morse]

More money to EFL only lead to more money to players and agents.
Rather see it spent on grass roots football/infrastructure.

[SamF]

Originally Posted by Inspector Morse

More money to EFL only lead to more money to players and agents.
Rather see it spent on grass roots football/infrastructure.

Bang on.

If club in the league received a larger cut all it does is inflate wages & transfer fees. Look at what happened in the Premier League with the new tv deal.

[Lord Didsbury]

It's an old chestnut is the debate on money in football. I find myself agreeing with every point of view....

Andy Holt is correct - money is not shared fairly if you are a smaller club and if it wasn't for the smaller clubs there would be no big clubs.
The PL are correct - if it wasn't for the commercial success (and by gum has it been a success) of the big clubs there would be no money to share.
Chewbacca is right - the argument is 25 years too late and that Andy H, as a well off business man, should know that market forces dictate the spoils largely go to the victors (unless he pays his staff the same as he takes)
Others are right that football should not be a business
and so it goes on..... we all have different views on how we'd like football to be

It's the way the wind blows I'm afraid. No one has a master plan for where the game is going, no one to blame for how its evolved. there is truth and hypocrisy in everything we say.

You need these occasional broadsides from the likes of Andy though. If more money is never asked for then it sure as hell won't be forthcoming.

[football19]

No publicity is bad publicity!!!,well done Mr Holt ,got us in papers,radio and TV !!!

[st06nc2]

Originally Posted by football19

No publicity is bad publicity!!!,well done Mr Holt ,got us in papers,radio and TV !!!

Alot of fans from other clubs coming out in support of Andy, obviously the prem fans are disagreeing but even other chairmans are coming out and agreeing with him, he is showing little old accy are no longer a walkover, we're going to fight for what we believe in

[accybeme]

There you go, criticize the pl for wasting money and pl threaten to take away what you already receive, if this situation came up at work place I think it would probably result in the case being taken to an employment tribunal. I agree with Andy arrogant bullying tactics from the pl

[DAV007]

Originally Posted by st06nc2

Listened to the show, no Andy holt, not even on pods at so don't know where you got this info from

He was on between 3 and 3.30pm

[DAV007]

Hawksbee and Jacobs | talkSPORT

[maccawozzagod]

I heard it. Even called in this morning as they were still going on about it.

Good for you Andy. We should be mighty proud that we have a chairman who is willing to gob off at the inequalities in football.

Most Chairmen sit meekly in their offices and hold their plates out ready for the scraps to fall down - without them their clubs would crash and burn.

I cancelled Sky Sports immediately upon reading the PL response to Andy

[st06nc2]

Originally Posted by DAV007

Hawksbee and Jacobs | talkSPORT

He isn't on any of them I've listened

[Shurm]

Just seen him on BBC1 News