It’s all about the money, honey.
To put the increases in Premier League TV money into perspective, Chelsea’s earnings for last season were 50% greater than the amount Leicester City trousered when they won the 2015-16 title.
One interesting element of this table is that the next time those of you inclined to have one if those perennially dull ‘big club’ conversations, we can certainly see who the broadcasters deem the most popular.
Spurs finished second, but in in TV earnings we came fourth. Of course this is skewed because Man Utd, Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea all benefited from having more games beamed into people’s homes.
Liverpool fans got to watch the most games from the comfort of their Bright House furnished abodes, which is a strategy they might reconsider next season given how mind-blowingly dull they were to watch. Clearly the ‘Isn’t Klopp A Whoot’ factor overtook reason.
West Ham were broadcast 15 times too many and failed to earn £20million.
