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Boxing Day obliteration is the latest example of the Premier League, Sky and TNT Sports axis of greed that destroys everything good about English football. I don't buy their pitiful excuses - and here's the huge cost about to hit them hard

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The Premier League and its principal broadcast partners, Sky Sports and TNT Sports, represent an axis of greed that is laying waste to the traditions of English football that millions of supporters hold dear.

Their disregard for the fans, their indifference to the history of the game, their scorn for the bonds built up between clubs and supporters, has rarely been brought more into the open than in the looming decision to wipe out the vast majority of Boxing Day games this year.