If the market is working properly, in the longer term the big clubs' popularity, attitude to pricing and the restrictions placed on fans should be beneficial to the rest of the pyramid. As long as the big clubs can't/won't accommodate everyone at a time of peak interest, smaller clubs have a chance to pick up the apples who fall off the cart. Some PL fanbases - present company excepted - scoff at what's happening lower down, but attendances are growing at quite a few grounds. And there's one thing you see there that we all know you won't see at many Premier League grounds. Local young people, turning up on a whim at the turnstile with their friends and siblings, paying less than tenner, sometimes much less, to get in. Yes, the numbers are small, but these are the matchgoing fans of the future, and they are enjoying the game at a price they can actually afford with change left over for a pie and a drink. Looking at it not just as a Blue who wants his club to continue to grow and prosper, but purely as someone who still believes in the idea of football as working people's Saturday afternoon entertainment, that's healthy for the game.