OP ignores the fact that football, like any sport is supposed to be about competing fairly; the excitement of unpredictability; the romance etc. That's what distinguishes sport from pure commerce, and is the reason why people love it.

Of course, we are coming increasingly further away from the Corinthian spirit, but once you stray as far from it as football is getting, the competetiveness aspect of the game starts to disappear and sport loses its essence.

So I would bracket Citeh and the Chavs along with athletes who dope. The result of what they are doing is nothing more or less than gaining an unfair advantage in pursuit of success. And the reason I would say that their situations are different from the 'have's/have not's that have always existed in the EPL is that they are basically taking out all of the variants that used to exist before the kinds of sums that they are now able to spend. Injuries/suspensions - no longer an issue for them. Players off form? - ditto - just bring in some international superstar from the bench. And they are not only making themselves immune to some of the variants that others are subject to, but they are effectively suppressing the competition by unsettleing their bast players; making transfer targets unattainable, and making all players more expensive - therefore destabilising or relegating the weakest of them.

Nothing to do with class politics, I'm afraid.