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Originally Posted by sherer
it's a bit OT for this thread but without the football pyramid then there would be no talent for the top teams in the Premiership to field any players. Ok I know that will never happen but the top leagues need the leagues below them to survive with just a single league quality will go down and teams will have to import more and more players leading to high costs
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Yes there would.
They already get to cherry pick the kids from the school systems. They aren't going to suddenly have a lack of kids wanting to try out for them. They'll still get the best youth prospects. Kids will still be playing youth level football.
Very few footballers come up through the divisions, the vast majority of decent kids end up in the youth systems for the top two leagues, and those leagues would be fine with televised 3pms.
You could even argue that with just one league, without revenue being distributed down the leagues (because lets face it the Premier League subsidises the rest of the leagues) the teams in the league would be stronger as there would be stability. Rather than the up down yoyoing of clubs they'd be able to really invest for the future from a guaranteed top flight income.
That's assuming that it'd actually kill the lower leagues anyway. Televised 3pms = more TV revenue = more revenue distributed to the lower leagues. It's not a fact that televising 3pms would kill the lower leagues at all, it could actually benefit them as there'd be more revenue to trickle down. I think it's insulting to people who watch lower league football to claim that they only do it because there's nothing else to watch, and they'd drop it in an instant if they could watch 3pms from the premier league on the telly, which is the entire argument against televising 3pms.