Premiership Big Four top the money table

ENGLAND’S top four clubs in the Premier League are in a financial league of their own and earned at least £14 million more than fifth-place Tottenham from television cash and prize money in the 2006-07 season.

Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and to a lesser extent Arsenal all cashed in on making it to the knockout rounds of the Champions League.

Even with £2.2 billion flooding into the Premier League from a new television deal, which will mean every club in the top flight benefiting by at least an extra £12 million, the Champions League will still separate the ‘have-lots’ from the ‘have-less’.