 appear to be buying very expensive players and paying them a lot of money. Premier League salaries amount to around 3 billion euros, paying out over 70% more than Spanish clubs. Premier League broadcasting rights are set to be renewed at a level of more than 1 billion euros higher than any other league, from 2019-2020. Overall the  healthier than it has ever been, so it is perverse that owners should now be trying to illegally ma- nipulate the situation or can it be assumed that   years and consequently eyebrows get raised on a political basis, at such a pivotal time for British   the whistle blowing has been actioned. Regulation never appears to stand independent of politics.


As companies move into indices and gain up- ward traction, similar things occur in soccer, with the enormous bonus of media rights payments to English premiership teams, those clubs are propelled further away from the following tired pe- loton of lower division football, who see little of the monetary rewards or media hysteria. The bigger  and the bigger clubs in football charge up their own leagues with the increasing share of TV money.


-  happens in football. Bolton Wanderers, one of the founder members of the football league, in May have been relegated to the third tier of English football, owing more than a million pounds to - - gation but they also start next year with a 12 point deduction in their lower league as a punishment for going bust!


The regulation scales of justice can appear unbi- ased everywhere. Most interestingly, while bashing the beleaguered has been a haven for regulators for many years, UEFA now face the problematic decision of banning one of Europe’s richest and most successful clubs out of all European compe- tition and perhaps stripping them of their domes- tic titles too. If Manchester City are found guilty, in the pun- ishment we might see the true impartiality and political independence of the sport ….if not, and  hold that the bigger you are the more protection you will get.


Andy Ash 


13 | ADMISI - The Ghost In The Machine | May/June 2019


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