American Couple/Sports Fans Reacts: How England's Premier Football League Is Breaking The Sport! WOW

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Nothing against foreign owners. But my objection is that football, from its conception, has belonged to the ordinary working man. Nowadays it’s a game for the better off. Most working people can no longer afford season tickets. The loss of football to the working classes directly coincides to the timescale of this video.

Football used to be the working man's sport, money has ruined the game with fans constantly being priced out of the game.

I remember a time when you could only have 3 non british national players, how money talks.

One of the worst examples of foreign owners taking over a club and then ignoring the fans was at Cardiff city, who whilst Welsh play in the English football league. Like Wrexham. Cardiff city were bought by Vincent Tan. The club play in blue and are nicknamed the bluejays. Tan did some researched and discovered that clubs that play in red get a higher amount of support, so he changed their strip from blue to red. Fans were outraged, and eventually he agreed to change it back, but it’s the pursuit of money at the expense of the hearts of fans that this shows. Yes fans like success, but not at the expense of the heart and soul of the clubs they love.

Don't be misled! While all this initial massive spending and investment was going on in the English leagues, the same was happening in many of the other top leagues in Europe. It might have given SOME clubs in England an advantage over poorer English clubs, but it certainly didn't give an overall advantage for English clubs over ALL the other European clubs.

Football to us Brits is tribalism, We don't care about profits or money, we care about what happens on the field. Sadly the money has attracted those that wish to take it for themselves where that money should be reinvested into the fan experience. If memory serves me, there was one year the TV rights deal went up so much all the clubs could have had free seats for the whole season and they would still have made more money than they did the previous year......what happened, ticket prices went up also. There are very few fans that want more money in the game, quite the opposite, but the solutions are no longer easy to implement as the mega wealth use their money to influence outcomes.

For me the golden era for football in the Premier league was from the mid 90s to the mid to late 00s....

Football in England is now firmly for the middle classes with the price of tickets going through the roof and ordinary,loyal fans resorting to watching the games on tv in a pub. As an Englishman and a Manchester United fanatic,it would be hypocritical of me to say it’s unfair when my club is the biggest,in terms of worldwide support (roughly 800million United fans around the world) and therefore one of the richest,but something HAS to be done as the Premier League is now just a cabal.

Applies not only to football but to 'British' companies as well. Most are now foreign owned from Rolls-Royce cars to Cadbury.

As a Liverpool fan for 50 years the worst thing is that fact that TV dictates when games are to be played. Traditionally every team played at 3pm Saturday afternoon , now teams play on all different days and times. Ultimately every club in the premier league will be a franchise like in the US , completely changing football and its traditions

Welcome to the UK where everything is for sale to anybody. 🙄

This is why some years ago I began to watch my local semi-pro team, they played with more passion, rather than just for the money. Morpeth Town went on to win the FA Vase against Hereford, a higher-league team, and my trip to Wembley was fantastic!

The transfer fees are different from salaries. It's the amount of money club A spends to negotiate a contract with a player from club B. The money goes to the club, not the player. The salary of the player is then negotiated separately. The world transfer fee record is about $240m which Paris Saint Germain paid Barcelona for Neymar in 2017. That's the amount PSG paid just so he would play for their club. They would also have to pay him a salary of roughly $500-700k a week. That amounts to $26-36m a year from his wage alone. He would've also earned extra for goal bonuses etc. PSG were willing to pay this much money for Neymar as he was the 3rd best player in the world at the time, behind Messi and Ronaldo respectively. PSG also paid $180m for Kylian Mbappe in the SAME transfer window as he was the best young player at the time too. He is arguably the best player in the world now, 7 years later.

I'm a lifetime football fan. Originally from the UK but been in Canada for the last 43 years. I am 70 now so grew up watching footy in the 70s. When I first moved to Canada in 1981 it was practically impossible to watch a European sport. Soccer as it's known here was just not a thing. When the premier league came along all that changed. The game became massive around the world. Even the US was not immune. At first sports writers tried to make fun of "soccer" but they couldn't sustain that rhetoric in the face of the global obsession. I used to hear from US friends about the super bowl maybe getting a billion viewers. Well that was for 1 game once per year. Premier League was getting over 3 billion views every week. I would hear about NFL super bowl winners being "world" champions" I guess so if your world only consists of 1 country. Same with MLB "world series" 1 Canadian team and the rest American for a total of 2. The world has almost 200 countries all of which play soccer. People outside the US are not surprised by the statistics from the European football leagues .

Hi from Suffolk and my team not surprisingly is Ipswich Town who were taken over by American owners 3 years ago as we were languishing in the third tier of the English league. After back to back promotion in 2 years they were promoted to the Premier League last season which excited Ed Sherran who is a fan and sponsor.

Awesome video,always interesting to see it laid out and recapped like that. Thoroughly enjoyed. Loved the amount of shocks you saw,love ur reactions. Thanks for what felt like 3 minutes,just enjoyed it so much it flew xx

Morning ladies. My sister's favourite football team is Southampton (been in championship for the last couple of years). They have recently moved back up to the Premier league but they will end up near the bottom of the league as they don't have as much money as the big teams. My football team (Plymouth Argyle) is in the Championship (league below Premier) but they are one of the lowest funded in that league. They are the highest they have ever been. My sister actually said that the football is best in the championship as it is more about football than money. I remember the Hillsborough incident. I have even spoken to someone who was there when it happened. I met her when I was at university. Argyle's owner lives in the US, but is from England originally. My team has made the news recently as they have hired Wayne Rooney as the head coach. I am not sure about this appointment, but will still support my team. The Premier league tends to affect the F. A. rules in their favour. I don't agree that it is now decided by how much money you have. With the exception of the Premier league there is now a spending cap on the rest of the football league.=

Im thinking 12 hours of old N & D videos to take me up to match time , aahh the beauty of being single lol 🤣🤣

Just a quick clarification for you - the numbers talked about in this video aren't salaries, they're transfer fees, paid from one club to another to buy a player. The player salaries weren't even mentioned in the video but obviously they're a significant outlay as well. Incidentally, check out Everton's soon to be opened new stadium. FC Cincinnati's stadium is basically its little brother. Same architect, very similar design.