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The sheer scale of the staggering TV deal that will begin next season, will rightly change the face of English football once again. However, this would also put clubs at odds with their own supporters.

For many years now, as the scale and self-love of the Premier League has grown, those who attend games have paid heavily for the privilege. 

source: Mail online

It has long been an irritant but the clubs justified it, albeit rather weakly, on the back of an argument that said the sight of many of the world's best players on our fields every weekend came at a price. Transfer values have to be met, wages (and agents) have to be paid.

Big English football clubs no longer need their supporters' money to pay their players' wages. They certainly don't need as much of it, if any at all. 

The finances driving our clubs onwards and upwards comes from sponsorship, commerce and, above all, TV companies who seem happy to invest so very much of their viewers' subscription and licence fees into this product. 

The debate about ticket prices has been with us for a while thanks to groups such as the Football Supporters Federation. 

It is TV and all associated with it, however, that has driven our clubs to a point where there should no longer be a debate. Simply, there is no longer an argument to which they can cling.

The actions of Liverpool supporters at Anfield on Saturday have certainly helped to bring the issue in to sharper focus. 

source:  Mail Online