Premier League Must Spread the Wealth Around to Safeguard Future of Our National Game ; Football in Crisis
Daily Mail › December 07, 2004
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THERE SO NOW it's official. The Premiership really is in crisis, as David Dein admitted to an audience of the most powerful men in football that excessive TV coverage had reached ' saturation point' and left football in 'intensive care'.
Dein, vice-chairman of Arsenal and the FA and one of the most powerful men in English football, was speaking at the Soccerex convention in Dubai, two months after I revealed that attendances at Premiership matches and TV ratings were falling.See the full content of this document
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Premier League Must Spread the Wealth Around to Safeguard Future of Our National Game ; Football in Crisis
At the same event, former Leeds, Everton and Chelsea chief executive Trevor Birch warned players that their salaries might soon decline if the value of TV deals shrank. He added: 'We are in an unsustainable, fragile position.'
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