Why we’re stuck with a Premier League in the clutches of the global mega-rich | Jonathan Wilson
There’s little prospect of the model changing in a country that welcomes wealthy international owners with open arms Football, the world’s most popular sport, played by laws drawn up in London in 1863. The Premier League is the UK’s greatest soft power export. Premier League clubs are owned by a deputy prime ministe…
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