MillionMilesAway
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i dont want the premier league to ever do that personally.
Me too.
The difference between the top few and the rest is already huge, making it bigger won't help the league competition.
i dont want the premier league to ever do that personally.
Me too.
The difference between the top few and the rest is already huge, making it bigger won't help the league competition.
This is the issue as far as I can see.http://www.espn.co.uk/football/engl...6-want-bigger-cut-of-annual-tv-rights-revenue
quite informative. about 10 clubs in favour, 14 needed.
overseas contracts only. Looks like Scudamore wants to bring overseas tv money into line with the domestic tv money: 1/3 merit, 1/3 equal, 1/3 'facility' (televised match).
currently overseas is only equitably split, 20 ways, but is much smaller than domestic deals. however with values of overseas contracts soaring, Scudamore is keen to have parity across all tv money (parity of structure i think), and yes will benefit us for good or bad. current tv money ratio is about 1.5:1 (best:worst), and this deal is looking to obtain a 2:1 ratio.
Actually TV revenue and Premier league prize money isn't massively different between top and bottom
Where there is a difference is when European prize money comes into it and the club's own commercial deals
I suppose a positive way you could look at it is it may make club owners invest more money to make their club more competitive, rather than settling for mid table safety and spooning off cash (e.g West Ham!!)
We shouldn't be pushing for individual bargaining rights for at least ten years, because that's how far behind the old Sky four we are