They see millions of it every year. The national leagues were given over £12m for the next three years. There is also funds set up for community stuff and stadiums. The stadium fund this year was something like £30m. Since 2000 the PL has given almost £200m to fund lower league stadiums.
people will always go and support their local team. i don't buy this notion that if 3pm games were available on tv then nobody would go to the games. arguably, if non-top 6 teams were shown on tv more, the more those teams' profiles will be raised and potentially more revenue streams identified. the current model of maximising profit from the top 6 and sod the rest might have been ok in the 90s but with the advent of streaming and mobile content, the whole enterprise needs a complete overhaul.
This feels the best answer for me. Let the football league and below have that slot to themselves.
I think my desire to watch games would disappear if we had no fans attending. The matches without them during lockdown were greatly diminished.
Possibly, it's strange to see though all the same.
The only positive in this instance is Liverpool don't play before us. Would be a nightmare if they won before we play and we were sat in 5th when we play later in the day.
We don't get a lot of them though, last week was the first one we have had for months, certainly beats a midweek 8PM game.
