English League Football [8th - 12th May 2010] **spoilers**

Linoge said:
The parachute payments that relegated teams now get from the Premier League, can anyone shed light on what these payments are exactly. Is it payment owed to them for competing in the league but paid in instalments, or is this another payment on top of tv money?
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I always understodd the parachute payments to be extra ontop of anything earned upto that point (ie ontop of TV money and other streams of income)
 
If the payments are extra, it's hardly fair on the rest of the championship, money really needs to be addressed as it's only going to make the same top teams stronger, I'd personally give it to the bottom half of the championship. :p And watch as the competition got better.
 
It isn't fair on the rest of the Championship, but the view is that these teams have earned that cash through promotion in the first place.

Give it to the bottom teams in the Championship and watch the gulf between the Championship and league 1 stretch.
 
Gilly said:
It isn't fair on the rest of the Championship, but the view is that these tea\ms have earned that cash through promotion in the first place.
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Yeah but surely (at least) a season in the Premier League financially rewards promotion in the first place. In a few years time it'll be even harder for the middle placed teams in the championship to push up the table, when the teams above them are receiving millions in payments over a number of years and at some stage you could see 6-8 teams on a yearly basis getting these payments, financially they won't be able to compete with them.

edit: Yeah the money issue definitely needs addressing in football.
 
Parachute payments aren't fair but they're there to stop teams dropping out of the Premier League, dropping out of football all together.

The financial gulf between the Championship and the Premier League is massive and it would be nigh on impossible for a established Premier League club to restructure itself to be able to survive without Premier League money immediately.
 
I think the Premier League is remarkably egalitarian in comparison to the other major European leagues where the vast majority of TV money goes to the teams that finish top of their leagues. Barcelona/Real Madrid will make twice as much as Chelsea do from their respective TV rights sales for finish top of the league.

But I would say that wouldn't I, as I support a team that is one of the 'haves' rather than the 'have nots'...
 
Barca and Real don't make more money because they finish top of the League, they make it because they're the biggest sides in Spain. IINM clubs in Spain (and Italy) sell their TV rights individually where as we sell ours collectively as a League.

Unsurprisingly whenever the Premier League discuss how TV rights should be sold, it's only Liverpool and Man Utd that are in favour of selling the rights individually.
 
BaZ got it right, other leagues (I know it is true in Spain, didn't realise Italy also) agree TV deals individually and therefore get whatever money they can agree on, where it is agreed centrally and then shared in the Prem.
 
Shocking performance from Forest tonight. We gifted Blackpool posession far too much. We can play a good passing game but tonight we just passed it to Blackpool all night. Best team won but I'm massively disappointed in Forest.
 
Well done blackpool! I used to like going there for an away day back in the CCC.

Now get your arse up here so i can return :D a proper football team! and more importantly one of sir stanley Matthews former teams in the top flight
 
BaZ87 said:
Unsurprisingly whenever the Premier League discuss how TV rights should be sold, it's only Liverpool and Man Utd that are in favour of selling the rights individually.
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It's kind of like Conversatives/Labour against proportional representation isn't it? :D

I like the current system, a rising tide and all that.
 
It would be epic to see Blackpool in the Premier league. :D


But...I'm really hoping Cardiff win tonight and win the final.
 
I would be happy if the final was cardiff v blackpool, was born in Cardiff and have lived/worked in bristol for the last 10 years or so I love me a bit of olly olloway, guy is a legend
 
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