3. There’s a Golden Sky

Six of the most powerful men in English football sat down for launch at a restaurant in the South Bank of the Thames one afternoon in November 1990. The product of that shared meal is the English Premier League.

Slightly over twenty years later, this book explores various ways the league has changed the landscape of football from the influence of television, to live in the championship, to referees, to even the non-league football.

Seemingly unrelated short stories that all have a common theme – the altering effect of billions of pounds that television houses have poured into the game. From Abu Dhabi to Hackney Marsh, the effects of that meeting between Greg Dyke and co remains profound almost thirty years later. The effects are mostly for good, but you can’t miss the bad effects, especially as the game seems to have sold its soul to the money men.
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