Yes up to a point, but there is a key element missing, for although they own, or can buy, the big clubs, fans still have an attachment to their own clubs, and a league made up of clubs that are not ...

On one occasion he took this further specifying that he wanted three goal-keeprs and 22 players he could choose from to play in front of one of them. Later he revised this upwards to 23 or 24 ...