Excesses of modern football pulling on the fans’ elastic

It is back. But we should pause to consider those we have lost. The latest defectors. Those who have seen enough. Who have, as they will tell you often, “lost interest now”.

Turns out €200 million was their personal trigger, the specific amount they regard as obscene. Too obscene.

They had hung in there. Stayed strong. Turned a deaf ear, 22 years ago, when Stuart Pearce decried the “huge waste” at Arsenal, where Dennis Bergkamp would get £25,000 per week.