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Re: [Football] Article on the Big Four and English Football
I agree absolutely. I'm just not sure what to do about it. Perhaps every team in the Premiership should receive an equal portion of the TV rights (or at least a smaller increase per place). Certainly the Premiership should be subsidising the Championship to make them more competitive when they get promoted.

A table of monies paid in the Premiership

Is the above a fair way of doing things? Should 30% of the TV money be passed onto the Football League? Thoughts on that itself would be interesting.

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All Premiership clubs receive an equal share of 50 per cent of the current £1.1 billion domestic TV deal, the bulk of which is provided by a £1.024bn exclusive live rights deal with Sky which expires in the summer. A further 25 per cent is divided up according to where teams finish in the league and the final quarter depends on how many times a club appear on TV. Money from the sale of overseas rights is split up equally.

With the league's new rights package set to earn clubs a 60 per cent rise in TV revenue from next season, some chairmen believe changes must be made now to avoid a disastrous divide between the big clubs and the rest.

Although the league argue that the new deal will lead to the smallest differential yet between top and bottom, Scudamore has forecast that the winners of next year's title will net £50m, while the bottom club will receive £30m.According to figures for 2005-06, the difference between 20th-placed Sunderland and champions Chelsea was £13.6m.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...1/sfnfro21.xml
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