This.Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
The money had been creeping up in football for a while but Sky was a watershed moment. Suddenly you had to pay for a channel if you wanted to watch the game. And if you're going to pay then you'd better get value for money so suddenly it was saturation coverage, endless analysis and "build up". Who wants "build up" for West Ham vs Burnley ffs?
The expansion of the CL was another nail in the coffin, that created the little group of big clubs at the top of each league.
This is the next step in the evolution, and this time it'll be a pretty much closed shop.
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