{"id":1307,"date":"2024-01-08T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballcollective.org.uk\/?post_type=general&p=1307"},"modified":"2024-01-08T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:46:17","slug":"when-was-the-premier-league-founded-why","status":"publish","type":"general","link":"https:\/\/footballcollective.org.uk\/general\/when-was-the-premier-league-founded-why\/","title":{"rendered":"When Was the Premier League Founded & Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s sad, but true, that modern football is driven by money. With it, you can attract better players to your club and, theoretically, improve your performances on the pitch. Without it, you have to make do with feeding off the scraps of bigger clubs \u2013 long term, that doesn\u2019t feel like it would be a recipe for success.<\/p>\n
In the days before oil-rich sheikhs, deep-pocketed Russian oligarchs and big-dreaming American investment groups came along to buy out their \u2018lucky\u2019 clubs, football needed to get richer collectively \u2013 that was one of the reasons why the Premier League was created. Top-flight clubs wanted a thicker slice of the pie as interest grew in English football from around the world, and so the early 1990s heralded arguably the most seismic change in the beautiful game in more than a century.<\/p>\n