MNAFETSC
23 Jul 2007, 12:13 PM
Mechandising, again I'd say no. I think every club should be able to benefit from their fan base, and merchandising is just one aspect of that. If it was shared then where would be the incentive to make good merchandise? I don't know how things are done over there, but I went to several AFL games in Australia recently and they have a lot of money-sharing, and I couldn't help but notice that not only was the merchandise exactly the same for every single team, it was pretty crap too.
You do appear to be making the mistake a lot make who haven't followed football in England long, and kind of assume that there's been an untouchable big 4 with nobody else having a chance for years on end. It's a pretty new thing. If it does continue in this way it will be unhealthy for the game here, but financially restricting every club so that Reading have a just as much chance of winning the title as Man Utd is not going to help the league.
With merchandising it wouldnt be so bad if the Premier League didnt have its global reach but since it does you have millions maybe even billions of people buying merchandise from premier league clubs but I imagine the overwhelming majority of those sales are for the Big 4. And I understand that the big 4 is a new thing back when I first started following the premeir league you ask everyone who they got in their top 4 and youd get various answers but I think the ways things our theyll remain the big 4 not to say another clubs wont pimp one of them out for a CL spot here or there.
You do appear to be making the mistake a lot make who haven't followed football in England long, and kind of assume that there's been an untouchable big 4 with nobody else having a chance for years on end. It's a pretty new thing. If it does continue in this way it will be unhealthy for the game here, but financially restricting every club so that Reading have a just as much chance of winning the title as Man Utd is not going to help the league.
With merchandising it wouldnt be so bad if the Premier League didnt have its global reach but since it does you have millions maybe even billions of people buying merchandise from premier league clubs but I imagine the overwhelming majority of those sales are for the Big 4. And I understand that the big 4 is a new thing back when I first started following the premeir league you ask everyone who they got in their top 4 and youd get various answers but I think the ways things our theyll remain the big 4 not to say another clubs wont pimp one of them out for a CL spot here or there.