Football Fans: Are the gate prices at the various football stadiums worth it?. What will be the financial future for football?

It's amazing that there have been cutbacks in just about every area in the economy, and in the whole Euro zone, and a lot of the world, yet Football seems immune to these financial challenges: Well that is until now, as we've already seen with the likes of Portsmouth FC hitting hard times, and now going into administration twice. And even the big clubs have started to come out of the Closet, with Rangers FC, one of the bedrock clubs of Scottish Football having to disclose that it was effectively bust. And that is not the end of it, as with less people being able to afford to go to the big games there surprising gaps/empty seats showing regularly in the Premier league, in particular the lower clubs such as Blackburn and Wigan showing noticeable absences in attendances.

In addition, this problem will be further compounded by the proliferation of p2p sites that show live matches, bringing about the slow demise of the dominant position Sky sports had on live matches. And of course this dominant position was favoured by the premier league who themselves, benefited hugely from it from the exorbitant fees sky were able to pay out.

At last there may be light at the end of the tunnel, with a brilliant suggestion from the Everton Manager David Moyes, who I'm sure has seen my crystal ball of what lies ahead for football!.. The bbc website has the headline this morning  "David Moyes advocates 20% pay cut to make game more affordable", and that's only the start, but a very useful, and helpful suggestion, if football is not to run itself aground very quickly!.

Football is a great sport, but it's going to suffer a self-distrust unless moves are made to align it to the current  financial times we are living in.

 (David Moyes ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17249760)