Greed was the foundation stone of the Premier League,so we can hardly be surprised by an outbreak of further avarice over overseas television incomeFirst they came for the Football League. And I did not speak up. Because I was not the Football League. Then they came for an outmanoeuvred Greg Dyke, blown out of the water by BSkyB’s covert second TV rights tender. And I did not speak up. Because I was not an outmanoeuvred Greg Dyke.
Finally, and a quarter of a century later,they came for Premier League clubs external the top six via a potentially divisive rejig of overseas TV-rights income. And this time I did speak out. Because I was Crystal Palace, Burnley, and Huddersfield Town and everyone else who stands to lose something from the innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) financial elitism of the Premier League being turned,finally, upon itself.
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Source: guardian.co.uk