Something needs to be done, but if not a redistribution of wealth then what?
We don't have an organisation like in rugby or NFL, where every club needs to be granted a license to play in a competition, every player needs to be granted a license to pay for a club..... then everybody plays for the organisation that runs the competition which manages commercials and discipline on behalf of 'the collective' and then redistributes earned wealth to the competitors and a huge range of supportive grass roots organisations like schools and lower earning clubs to both keep the fans interested and the players coming through.
We run football like a business, so much so that these days the 'business' side predominates over the sporting side.
Under these rules No Premier League club owes anything to anybody else, they serve the contracts that they bargain for and sign. The Premier League run themselves basically, and this uneasy alliance with the FA has been built on the threat of forming a separate organisation for the last 25 years.
For years, the idea of making payments to any lower league clubs that help sustain the sport has almost been seen as a charity or socialist relief payment to keep people quiet.
We've just spent 15 years voting for politics and promoting an 'I'm alright Jack' society that doesn't believe in any sort of benefit and a lot of supportive relief organisations now no longer exist, we don't believe in regulation, we say we want to promote free trade and become business competitive again, so is there any support for this except from supporters of lower league clubs? Or do we actually believe some things are worth subsidising? I don't know anymore, i doubt if anybody has a stable position on anything?
Wolves, like most EPL clubs are foreign-owned and directly funded by overseas money invested to a business, taking most of it's money from overseas TV contracts and a rich foreign man's pocket. What does any club owe to the grassroots or lower league clubs in England?
Here is why they think like that.
Lower league clubs have less direct affect on Premier League clubs then ever before.
The feeder for most Premier League clubs now isn't the lower leagues of English football, it's places like Portugal or South America.
Most Premier League clubs now have big academies where they vacuum up English kids direct from school and they do their player trading with other academies. Look at Wolves.....we get cast off schoolboy players from Man City and Liverpool when they're released, we rarely go to Walsall and pay anything because it's unlikely they'll have anybody good enough.
The only way a bunch of English players will get into the EPL is if they get promoted with a Luton Town or a West Brom, and even those clubs now have a high proportion of foreign players in preference to English ones, so where are their grass roots?
The only benefit in supporting these clubs to a small extent, is to allow the continuing deception of open competition when the hope is that they will be so rubbish they will get relegated immediately.
Let's face it....there is nothing any middling Premier League club like Wolves, Bournemouth or Fulham would like to see more than 3 weak clubs getting promoted every year. Why give them money to compete with you?
