The UK sporting model has largely been based on leagues with promotion and relegation for decades.

Rugby hasn?t had promotion or relegation for 2 years now in the top league and rhe result is for the bottom teams the last few games become largely meaningless.

The EPL has become such a cash cow that those who feed from it and have huge turnovers are likely to move to that model.

The sums of money now involved in football are insane sometimes - the total wage bill for PL clubs in 24/25 was about ?2billion.

The Deloitte report (so pretty accurate) for the 23/24 season showed total turnover ?6.3 billion.

For the same period the EFL championship clubs turnover was ?958 million noting that there are 4?more teams in the championship. In addition, the top 5 clubs by turnover accounted red for ?458 million of that with us having ?128m

The drop off between the EPl and the championship is staggering which means the gap between the haves at the top and the have nots is so wide as to now almost be unbridgeable.

The various PSR and other rules simply entrench the dominance.