You said try telling that to the fans, we didn't need telling, we knew who was at fault, as I'm sure many of them do. I still don't know what you meant by that?
Tell them what? That the lower tiers are looking healthy in comparison to past years at the moment, or that the Premier League is not to blame for their financial woes? :shrug:
There are many of that list who were completely responsible for their own downfall and really have no one else to...
There are many others, Maidstone paid £400,000 for a plot of land for a new stadium without getting planning consent first, which they then couldn't get. They actually remain the last Football League Club to go out of business completely in 1992.
In the lead up to the 90s and the formation of...
Charlton, Middlesborough, Tranmere, Newport County, Walsall, Northampton Town, Kettering Town, Aldershot, Maidstone United: all went into administration before or in 1992.
The Insolvency Act was only passed in 1986, so administration wasn't really governed until then. Some more recent examples...
Clubs were going to the wall well before the Premier League. Go to a National, Conference North/South game and the game has never looked so healthy in the lower tiers. The Premier League is it’s own evil beast, but not sure all football’s woes can be blamed on it.