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The Ripple Effect with James Lawrence Allcott

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The Future of Football in the United States

Our country has been sold to foreign investors. So you and I want to go and buy a flat in any major city right now, there's a good chance that we can't even put in a bid to buy it because they're being sold off plan to investors in another country. And that's what we've done with the football teams. We're basically saying like foreign investors, brilliant, pull the money into the Premier League, let's make the product as great as possible. Maybe we'll pay significant tax. But for me, it's, we're talking about the competition moving away from what we think it should, should be domestically. And we're wondering what the future might be

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