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Common sense should be exercised whenever using WD Company products. Always follow the instructions and take heed of any warnings printed on the packaging. All Rights Reserved. Sign Up to our newsletter. First Name. Last Name. When British clubs dominated Europe. Kal Kozomos 28 October Change Cookie Preferences. Change Region. Accept Cookies. The Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears started the decade off hot as they took home the title four straight years from , setting a new record of seven-straight NCAA DII tournament championships.

They won every title from and were a strong two-seed heading into the tournament before being knocked off by Southwest Minnesota State in the second round. They ended up tacking on two more championships in and Led by their coach, Brady Starkey, the Golden Bears jumped out to a scorching start at the beginning of Starkey's tenure as Concordia-St.

Paul finished his first season, in , and made a run in the post-season finishing runner-up. Starkey has an all-time record of with Concordia-St. Similar to Concordia-St. For the 90s, that was just over a tenth, at It refers to how, no matter what happens in a game, they always find their way. But even the mighty Real Madrid did not used to win like this. Together with Barcelona , their percentage of wins by three goals or more has jumped from It has never been this bad.

And it might yet get even worse. The forces that led us to this are as important as the effects. The 14 other Premier League clubs were at first taken aback.

Then the feeling that they were being taken for a ride began to grow. The counter-argument is obviously that they need teams to play against, and that the attractive founding principle of the Premier League is equality. The more attractive they are to audiences. The better commercial deals they can strike. The better they become. And the more attractive they are. Thus strengthening a self-perpetuating cycle that just keeps on increasing the gap.

This dilemma — still live and present in the game and growing — is a microcosm of the wider situation that has led football to the brink. The game has been engulfed by capitalism, yes, but the compounding issue is that the most influential stake-holders have so fully embraced this.

There has been almost no resistance or regulation, which in itself has added multiple layers of self-perpetuation. The belligerence of the big clubs has been a huge part of it. This is why the problem is threatening to get worse.

The first in England was almost symbolic, as it came at the very height of Thatcherism in The FA at that time had in place a 19th-century regulation called Rule 34, which at least acknowledged clubs were a social institution. Rule 34 prohibited directors from being paid and restricted dividends to shareholders. Seeking to become the first club to float on the stock market, Tottenham Hotspur and their advisors asked if they could form a holding company to evade the restrictions of Rule The FA did not object.

Instead they waved it through. This was accompanied by the mids change to gate-money distribution, which saw home teams receive bigger proportions, inherently loading more towards the biggest clubs. By then, though, financial influence was moving from the stands to somewhere without fences or potentially any limits at all.

He felt it absurd that the biggest clubs were not regularly meeting in glamorously lucrative matches. Uefa rejected the idea, but the die had been cast. The first Champions League, in , incorporated many of the same ideas, right down to branding and an anthem.

It is no coincidence the Premier League was launched at the same time, influenced by the same ideas and driven by the same motivation: money. It should not be overlooked that the decrepit nature of football in the s — which ultimately descending into real-life tragedies such as Heysel and Hillsborough — made so much of this necessary.

The game badly needed updating and badly needed the funding to do so, as well as ways to raise that funding. Better broadcasting deals through glossy competitions therefore never had a more persuasive argument.

The problem is how far it went the other way. The ruinously decrepit gave way to the gleamingly decadent. Just as internal protections were stripped away, meanwhile, the game was further opened up by external forces.

Among the greatest was the fall of Communism, which meant Eastern Bloc nations such as Poland and Ukraine were unable to keep star players within their borders. There was then the influence of the European Court of Justice, and the Bosman ruling. This immediately made players free agents once their contract ended and also prohibited EU member states and Uefa from imposing quotas on foreign players. Three Dutchmen at Milan was considered unbelievably cosmopolitan.

It also generated the creation of a global network and system of agents and scouts. It created yet another mechanism of self-perpetuation. One that was to eventually be driven by the biggest mechanism of all: the Champions League. It is this tournament that has perhaps more than anything created this minimum financial threshold.

The competition has become so popular that its prize money is simply immense: life-changing for many clubs and game-changing for the sport as a whole. It is so drastic that it distorts football. That, by coincidence, is the figure Jack Walker pumped into Blackburn Rovers to make his club Premier League champions in by financial brute force. It would now barely make a dent. The Champions League does much more, however, than creating this huge financial capital.

It is just another way the game is so conditioned towards the richest. The massively free player market makes it a race to the top, where the richest are able to accumulate the best in a way never seen before. Every player obviously wants to be in such a competition. This means that even if clubs like Everton have the money to pay competitive wages, they are still mostly getting cast-offs, a level of player short of the true elite.

And when they do have a player who can perform at Champions League level, like Romelu Lukaku, he is quickly picked off.

There are too many ceilings to smash through, with so many layers of money on top.