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Originally Posted by Addick
Hopefully this doesn't sound rude but that's absolute rubbish.
Lower league football has become irrelevant in other countries because it has been allowed to fade. The growing interest in non-league football in England is the result of growing discontent with the commercialization of the game yet it shows what can happen when the lower tiers are given attention and a bit of love. If Occupiers and Hipsters can pump life into non-league football, imagine what the moneymen can do?
If FAs don't want clubs to become irrelevant when they drop into a lower league, make the lower leagues relevant. It wouldn't be a quick and easy fix but it wouldn't be another cycle of the vicious circle either.
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I don't disagree but that is trying to undo decades of lower league unimportance. I don't think in England the lower leagues got love due to commercialism, it was through tradition and loyalty. I'm sure Tranmere Rovers fans got it from their dad who got it from their dad. The other countries have not been able to keep that lineage going.
Here are the Italian attendence figures. Gets pretty dire in Serie B.
http://www.european-football-statist...ttn/aveita.htm