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The Glasers, Romanaovich and hicks and gillete steamed into owning the clubs,Learner has trod carefully and its worked

then again we are owned by a Icelandic bankrupt, so new balls please!

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There is also a certain amount of English bashing here.

Years ago when the top European sides had all the money and were buying up all the talent,including a world record fee for Zidane and winning the trophies,not a peep was heard.

With the influx of the tv money and the forming of the Premier league suddenly all the top players were coming to England and English clubs were winning all the trophies.Now this is suddenly immoral!

The Champions league was built on greed anyway.It was created to stop the top European clubs breaking away from their domestic leagues and forming their own league.

The clubs in it were the richest clubs and suddenly thanks to the CL money they got richer and richer and so bought all the top players.For the clubs on the outside it was almost impossible to break through and as Man City are finding now,even having a sudden influx of money isn't swaying the players from wanting to join the established top four.A real catch 22 situation.You can't break in without buying or producing better players,no matter how much money you have got.

For years clubs not in the top four have been crying out for a more level playing field only to be brushed contemptuously aside by the big boys.Indeed Peter Kenyon of Chelsea told them to stop carping and it was their job to catch teams like Chelsea up,knowing unless a rich owner came in it was never going to happen.When the Arabs outbid them for Robinho they suddenly cried foul!

We will see where it will all end and a more level playing field would be good for all if it happens.

The flaw in Platini's plan is if a few top clubs are kicked out of the Champions League then it will become devalued and the tv money will go and games will be played in half empty stadiums like our League cup.

As for breaking into that big four, well Villa are going in, Chelsea are dropping out, and City are nowhere near it. So what's the deal? Arsenal and Villa are teams run on very tight purse strings, Chelsea and Manchester City are two of the richest clubs on the planet. So the notion that money equals success is frankly rot.

Personally I love to hear European football bitches cry as the English clubs trample all over them like the all-star conquering heroes they are. Our national side might be about as hard-nosed and motivated as a jelly baby but everybody in the world knows that football is played the best in England. The Premiership is the best league in the world by a country mile and it makes those European fuckers weep, because they know it's true. There is not one single club on the continent that could win the Premiership. And people know it. The last United versus Chelsea game had a bigger global audience than the Superbowl, and it was just a league match.

English football might not be owned by English chairmen, or played by English players, but I still think that the fact the football played in England is the envy of the world is a great thing.

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I would like to see evidence of that. I hope you aren't taking the figures Sky, like all broadcasters, give to boost the number of people who will be watching a programme by quoting the figure of TV sets capable of receiving the programme. BARB and its worldwide equivalents quote the numbers who really watched the programme. The last Man Utd v Chelsea game, on Jan the 11th, had an audience in the UK of no more than 2,224,000 people, or 4.3% of the UK population aged 4+. That is the daily reach for Sky Sports 1, the numbers watching the match would have been less than that. The US audience for the Superbowl was 84.27 million. The big difference between the Superbowl and The Premier League is the Superbowl is available on free to air TV, the Premier League is on pay to view TV.

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This is why Lyon have won the french title seven times on the bounce. I don't think he'll be able to get it passed though, as I'm sure they could have UEFA under anti competitive legislation.

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I wasn't talking about the UK numbers. Overseas, oddly enough considering what it costs us, the premiership is very often free to air (clever use of intertubes can usually hook you up live with any match you want to watch for this reason). Places like China often contribute tens of millions of viewers.

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No doubt you have the audience ratings figures to prove it. If only 4.3% of the UK public watches the matches I can't see any higher percentages watching it any where else.

When Premiership games are shown in the UK, it is 8 hours later in China, so the 3 o'clock match starts at 11pm China time, not traditionally an hour when you get peak audiences.

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what are intertubes and where can i get free premiership football ????

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