I don’t want to sound like a petulant five year old boy, stamping my feet and shouting 'IT’S JUST NOT FAIR!'. But it isn't, it really isn't.

I’m an Everton supporter and i'm beginning to wonder if I will experience an exciting season ever again, unless, that is, if we get drawn into a desperately terrifying relegation battle again.  The Premiership is increasingly dominated by the ‘big four and is too predictable, in fact the whole English league is too predictable.   

Whilst the Premiership is becoming increasingly predictable, it is at least becoming wealthier.  In fact, with the new television deal recently announced, the team that finishes bottom of the Premiership next season will get the same as the league winners this season (around £30m).  The benefits of this huge injection of cash should benefit the whole of English football, but it doesn’t.  Lower league teams like Crewe Alexandra are now talking about having to dispose of, or at least reducing the scale of their brilliant academies, because they are becoming too expensive to run. This, despite the fact, that their academy has produced players such as David Platt, Rob Jones, Geoff Thomas, and Neil Lennon.  We have now reached a point where good young English players are going to miss out on the opportunities that were once afforded to them.  And it’s not only sad, it’s embarrassing.  All this money swilling about ‘the game’ and young players, perhaps missed by the top clubs, are forced to leave the game all together.  And let’s not forget in the case of Crewe Alexandra’s academy, we are talking about good English players that improved so much, that they went on to play for their country.   

I know I am lucky to support Everton and that we are in a good position in the league and we are OK financially, but not so long ago a team like ours would be looking at challenging for the Premiership next year, but we are not.  We are looking at more of the same.   

If we compare our great sport to those in America, like basketball and American football, we see that they at least attempt to level the playing field.  By allowing the lowest placed clubs to pick the best young players, we watch the fortunes of clubs constantly evolve, so that no one team or teams are able to dominate.  Maybe Watford should have been able to pick Ronaldo and Fabregas for their first year in the Premiership; it would have made it more interesting for their supporters and perhaps for all supporters.  I know a similar scheme is extremely unlikely to ever happen in the Premiership, and know I'm being a dreamer here, but wouldn't it be nice if something was done to make English football exciting again?