Is it Crunch Time for the Football League?

Pendle Red · 01-05-2010, 07:36

BBC - Dan Roan's Blog: English football on verge of civil war?

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Take a League Two club for instance. For the last three years it has received on average £72,000 a season from Premier League solidarity payments.

Under the Premier League's new three-year plan, starting from next season, they would receive a bumper £250,000 a season. Some may describe that as generous on the part of the top-flight, which is under no official obligation to give away anything to the lower leagues.

Others would say it only amounts to what some top Premier League players earn in less than two weeks!

cashman · 01-05-2010, 08:04

seems nuts to me on face of it.

if ya look at the big picture, can small clubs exist without it?

Redash · 01-05-2010, 08:20

What happens when Sky pull the plug, and they will, when they realise they don't have to put so much money in, because they don't really have any competition. Clubs like ours will get hurt, but not as much as many Football league clubs, and certainly not as much as most Premier and Championship clubs.

The premier league was formed to prevent a European Super League, that will still happen eventually. When it does 90% of the other clubs, not just in England, will go bust.

Nearly all clubs will have to think about going Semi-pro. The set-up from the top tier down would be similar to what is happening from the Conference down at the moment. Half the top tier will be pro the rest semi pro. The leagues will be completely turned upside down. Some current league 2 and Conference clubs will make up the majority of the top tier for a few years.

All clubs need to prepare for this, it may be twenty years away, but it's coming.

Oh by the way
the end of the world is neigh.

Willie Miller · 01-05-2010, 08:31

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Originally Posted by Redash

the end of the world is neigh.

Stop horsing around.....

Gateshead just gone full time, the worlds gone mad!

Pendle Red · 11-05-2010, 05:23

It looks like a compromise has been reached between the Football League & Premier League, I understand the lower leagues frustration but it did seem like a real take it or leave it scenario from the PL

BBC Sport - Football - Football League accept revised parachute payments

cashman · 11-05-2010, 07:18

thats good fer stanley i reckon,

Long time red · 11-05-2010, 09:07

I remember takling to the Chairman of Barnet at a game during our first season in the Conference. Barnet had been in the Football league when the Premiership was first being discussed. He thought it was a good idea to get rid of the 18/20 top teams these being the ones who had always demanded a bigger share of any pot. Only to find that a second generation of greedy clubs came to the front, and started to make demands. Sadly we are at the bottom of the pile and need to live off the rich clubs crumbs. Like the Trotters one day we will be millionaires.

Exile on Spencer St · 11-05-2010, 12:22

Like the Trotters one day we will be millionaires.[/quote]

Some Trotters are already millionaires, in Albania leks.