Ok, so I guess I picked up from your post that the free market was the most efficient way of guaranteeing a stable structure for football, not a way of explaining that players will get paid what the people with money think they are worth paying (which I whole-heartedly agree with).
To me it's obvious that the free market, and the injection of TV cash in particular) will lead to the collapse of by far the majority of clubs and leagues, and lead to a very small amount of players earning a living from the game.
There have been suggestions for a Scandinavian league floated for at least a decade, but no appetite expressed for it.
Maybe the interesting argument is that the nature of football as a spectator sport has been completely changed by the free market. I have a whole working class lament about that...
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Date: 2012-02-21 04:25 pm (UTC)To me it's obvious that the free market, and the injection of TV cash in particular) will lead to the collapse of by far the majority of clubs and leagues, and lead to a very small amount of players earning a living from the game.
There have been suggestions for a Scandinavian league floated for at least a decade, but no appetite expressed for it.
Maybe the interesting argument is that the nature of football as a spectator sport has been completely changed by the free market. I have a whole working class lament about that...