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Clough and his Forest/Derby are to blame for those days being gone marra.I too am too young to remember but I’ve always been fascinated by Brian Clough so have read tonnes of books about that period. Viv Anderson man, what a player.
Must have been great to be a football fan back then when you seen provincial clubs like Forest rise from the 2nd Division to European powerhouse within a few years. You could dream that one day your club would follow suit.
Alas those days are gone.
The big boys didn’t like the likes of Derby n Forest winning the league and EC or WBA, Ipswich, QPR, Stoke, Burnley etc finishing above them regularly through the 70s. So they threatened the FL with a breakaway super league unless home teams were allowed to keep all of their home gate money. At the time the away team received 25% iirc which helped the smaller clubs create a more competitive league.
The FL agreed in 79 iirc and there’s been a fundamental change in the distribution of trophies ever since. Of course the big boys weren’t gonna stop there and regularly threatened more breakaways culminating with the PL split putting an even bigger %s of the available cash into their pockets.
Now of course it’s the European Super League they use to threaten the PL for more money and they’re the actual owners of the PL anyway! Cloughies to blame.
The sooner they go the better.