Is there anything good about the Premiership superclubs?
No. Greedy money-grubbing self-centred bastards who think football should be run totally for their benefit. And thanks to the FA, it now is. Not that long ago, all 92 league clubs got an equal share of all TV income. The split is now more than 100:1 in the Premiership’s favour. The result; whichever three clubs are promoted to the Premiership in a given year, all will struggle. It was great fun when, in the mid-nineties, the Premiership threatened to pull up the drawbridge and stop accepting clubs from the Football League – and the League clubs threatened to stop coming up anyway! Rather belatedly the Premier clubs realized this would destroy crowd numbers at most grounds in the latter half of the season, with there being nothing to play for. The proposal was duly filed in an appropriate receptacle. In 1996 Premiership club Newcastle United tried to bully Conference side Stevenage Borough into surrendering home advantage in their FA Cup tie; the big club were lucky to escape with a 1-1
