Extra £5m funding for National League

there will be uproar if they had all the slots and BT and Sky cant have any games.  Greedy b*stards

It is more of what we have come to expect from the top of the pyramid unfortunately.  

Another reason to boycott the premiership. Can't remember last time I watched a prem game but it makes zero difference to them what I do.

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It is more of what we have come to expect from the top of the pyramid unfortunately.  

Another reason to boycott the premiership. Can't remember last time I watched a prem game but it makes zero difference to them what I do.

I don't understand why people think that the Premier League should be funding the 5th tier of English football. I get that football in this country is different to other countries in the community aspect means more, but virtually nobody outside of the NL teams wants to watch it. If funds were distributed more, the PL teams wouldn't be able to sign the best players anymore, the standard would drop vs other countries that don't have 5 levels of 20+ teams to support and viewing figures would drop. There's then be less money to share around and the English game would be worse off for it.

The money at the top is obscene, but without a concerted international effort to change things, it's not going to change

No PP. You’ve got it wrong. The Premier League was able to rake in huge amounts of money from TV BEFORE the teams were able to win the top tournaments so often. Then we started seeing the multi-billionaires coming in who pumped more money in. It’s the money coming in first that enabled them to compete, not the other way round.

As for there being less money to share…..we’ll that’s not saying much us it.

The vast wealth in the PL and no effective governance on what clubs below do is threatening the English game. The top clubs scoop up ridiculous numbers of young players, far more than they are able to play, create inflation in wages, and poach lower League clubs’ young talent for a pittance. Championship clubs get dragged into spending way beyond their means, threatening their very existence. Look what’s happened to Derby, Coventry, Bolton, Bradford, Sunderland …. Probably loads more that I’ve forgotten.

Its a pitance and an insult  and they should be sent it back. Dont watch premsheit  circus clowns and never will.. I  dont even watch England play unless there is nothing else to watch. They dont give a crap about lower football its all them and money

I hate to get into debates about the prem. I cant stand it and only take an interest because ive joined an FPL league and stuck £70 in

The youth player situation pisses me off.
1 example is Jay Stansfield. Knew him as a boy growing up in Tiverton, follows his dad's foot steps and signs for Exeter. Making great progress and touching first team. Fulham snatch him for pennies and now he's made 3 sub appearances in around 18 months. If he'd had stayed at Exeter he'd probably be playing week in week out. (he's 18 at the moment)