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Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can!
Topic Started: 3 Jul 2015, 08:40 AM (443 Views)
Darlington
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Depeche Mode once wrote in a song "Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can", I wonder if they knew about the Premiership back in the 80's when they wrote it or had a premonition. Perhaps not but it is so apt for the Premiership I think.

In a world of haves and have nots in football the difference in money is so vast that it is shown just in the difference £1.75m will make.

For any premiership side it wont buy much in the transfer window, well not world class players that's for sure. They may be able to pick out a bargain and future prospect from down the leagues but it can be a risky business as you may not get it right.
So most premiership clubs wont be jumping up and down if that was the windfall for them but lower down the league it is different.

Exeter City have just landed that £1.75m and to them it is the world. It now gives them some financial security and the opportunity to buy players where not so long ago they had an embargo imposed.

The sad state of affairs here is that football lets this happen and sits back while Premiership clubs bandy millions and millions in transfer fees and pick up TV money well in excess of the windfall for Exeter. In fact for finishing last in the premiership QPR received £64.8m in prize money. The FA watches the Premiership merry go round and money that is involved and does nothing to facilitate football in those lower divisions.

If they had just given £1.75m to all 24 league two clubs - a windfall remember for them. It would have cost them a mere £42m which is less than what QPR received for basically failing in the Premiership.

Think about this if all the 20 premiership clubs had given up £10m each from their prize money which is £200m in total and at worst 15.4% of the prize money for any club. If that was then given evenly to the 72 league clubs then they would all get a boost of £2.77m. Not a great deal is it? That though is a life saver for those League Two clubs, a veritable windfall and probably for League One as well. It might not be massive for Championship clubs but I bet it is a big help. Such a little from those at the top could achieve so much for those below and help keep afloat those clubs below.
Well we can all keep dreaming though can't we and just remember grabbing hands grab all they can.

Prize Money Chart - http://www.totalsportek.com/football/premier-league-prize-money-table-2015/
Exeter City Windfall - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32989704
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It is obvious, even from Over Here, that the English 'football pyramid' is essentially upside-down when it comes to money. That the Premier League could increase it's support for lower-tier teams very greatly without making a noticeable impact in the amount of funds it has to spend is very clear. I suppose the rationale is 'If we give them more, they'll come to expect it, so we'd best not start...'

English football's economic structure baffles me. Over here, most professional sports leagues do not directly support their 'feeder systems' (other than baseball, and hockey & basketball to a small extent), but that is largely because their feeders are US College programs, most of which are doing very well without help. Each of the 126 Division I-A football teams average an income of $22M (£14M; 2011 data), with the top 24 averaging over $100M each (£64M each), or about 3 times what the Championship teams in the UK draw, so the NFL doesn't need to pass much money on. Do you think the Championship clubs could use an extra £40M each per year? :O Wait, I need that hand!

Seems to me a top-level organization that has a feeder system for young players in such dire straights as most of the lower-tier (and even many of the Championship tier) clubs should find a way to support those clubs much better that the Premier League does currently.
Edited by Owlish52, 3 Jul 2015, 03:38 PM.
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The problem over here Owlish, and I apologise if you know this, is that any football team in order to play football professionally and amateur status have to affiliate to the Football Association (FA) and be bound by their rules. The FA take their cut quite substantially as the copywright for all games, fixtures etc. in the professional game is owned wholy by the FA. You can not officially reproduce the fixture list without their permission for instance or show games without having FA agreement and obviously paid for it.

So the game as you can believe generates vast wealth and while the clubs generate income from the usual food, tickets, replica kits etc. the big money for the games stays with the FA and they then give it to the clubs. This leaves most clubs struggling to make a profit as they over pay to compete and don't get enough income. Stupid I know but they do because they think they might just reach the promised land of the Prem and reap the rewards of big money and all will be well.

Since the big clubs got greedy back in the 90's the FA formed the Premiership to stop them leaving and setting up on their own and the big money comes there from those games. Consequently the FA is at fault in that they distribute the money from TV etc and plough it back to the greedy gits at the top who demand it as they performed for it, so to speak.

The FA is an old organisation full of old geriatrics who want shooting and don't stand up against the big boys enough. Like FIFA and Blatter we need them removed and replaced with more forward thinking individuals who can see that without the clubs football would wane and not have the large fan base it does. They need to distribute the money they get more fairly but don't. I am not saying they should not give a larger cut to the Prem but at the moment it is nearly all them and little elsewhere.

So we then get clubs going into admin as they can't survive and for some if the FA distributed more fairly it would be unlikely to happen.

While the game stays as it is you will rarely see the likes of a Wimbledon who rose up to the top and won the FA Cup which happened when the league system and money was fairer. Now take most League Two sides and you will be unlikely to see any reach the heady heights of the Prem unless some rich benefactor steps in to support and give money.
I sit here and I hate Hartlepool as they are Darlo's bitter rivals but why should they have any less chance of reaching the Premiership because they sit in League Two. They do though because those grabbing hands at the top grab all they can.
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Oh, we have our issues with money as well - the college bowl games, for example, are huge money-spinners, with a bit going to various charities to let the bowl committees retain their tax-exempt status. It just seems that the PL is cutting its' own throat to a degree by not supporting the lower tiers of English football. Obviously, they can 'splash the cash' and bring in foreign players, but the Rich get Richer and the game, at all other levels, gets poorer. Seems very short-sighted to me, but I am on the other side of the ocean, so I may lack perspective.
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It is short sighted and they are that blinkered they wont ever realise until it is too late and professional football is reduced to a number of elite clubs as the rest slowly disappear.
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