There is a massive change on the cards in the Premiership which has fuelled the ridiculous amounts paid to the clubs in recent times. There is an unprecedented amount of TV cash on the table and suddenly the size of your stadium counts for less.

Clubs are even dropping their prices to fill seats after they saw the payment packages on offer. They want bums on seats for the television audience. They want sell-outs and the change is phenomenal. Look at these stats:

Premiership winners: 2005/6 - £9,669,220;  2007/8 - £50,000,000.

Premiership losers: 2005/6 - £484,961; 2007/8 - £26,800,000.

Not only does this make England the dominant league in world football; it has another effect. Each time the television revenues increase, the importance of gate receipts and seperate sponsorships decrease. They become a smaller proportion of each club's income so that a club like a Wimbledon might actually be able to survive once they are there.

For anyone who doesn't follow, here is a fictional example:

Premiership winners - Manchester United. Before - Prize money: £9,669,220; Gate receipts etc: £60,000,000. Total:  £69,669,220. After - Prize money: £50,000,000; Gate receipts etc: £60,000,000. Total: £110,000,000

Sixth place - Everton. Before - Prize Money: £7,274,415; Gate Receipts etc: £30,000,000. Total: £37,274,415.
After - Prize Money: £43,500,000; Gate Receipts etc: £30,000,000. Total: £73,500,000.

The proportion in earnings (not including Europe in either instance) between 10th place and first goes up from 53.5% to 66.8% without their gate receipts and sponsorships having to increase*. Normally you're lucky if you can make 0.2% headway on the top four and usually the other teams are falling further behind, not catching up.

Don't think that's enough to change the Premiership? How about this: The Premiership prize pot is the biggest in the world this year, with £30m  for the winners. Next year that's pretty much what the losers gets. Anyone who tells you footballers value anything but money is talking rubbish. The middle-of -the-road Premiership clubs will be able to compete with signing the very best in Europe. More Tottenhams with Dimitar Berbatovs. More Boltons with Nicolas Anelkas. There are more top players than you can fill even six teams with in the world and the Premiership will have the pick.

If you believe that players demand European football rather than just money (after all, you have to get those lucrative sponsorship contracts), than it at least gives anyone who breaks into the UEFA Cup a better chance to step up to Champions League as the gap is smaller and they will be more easily able to afford the best talent from Europe and Brazil as the television deals in Europe pale by comparison. Imagine almost every top, money- grabbing player in the Premiership.

The future is English football, with possibly even a couple of Englishmen playing in it.

* Only the prize money figures are correct - the gate receipts are thumb-sucked but the principle works.

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