The right decision has been made in the end. However, the discussions since Sunday should never have happened. For a long time football hasn’t really been about the fans.

£14.99 to watch matches during lockdown, £850 a year (ish) to watch all matches (Sky/BT/Amazon subscriptions) + the soaring cost of match tickets when fans are allowed back. If football were really for the fans, why are they being priced out of it?

Whilst I appreciate the ‘big 6’ attract more interest, the proportion of media coverage they get feels disproportionate. It’s little wonder these 6 felt the need to go off and try to manufacture themselves an even bigger chunk of the pie.

The 6 clubs have been pandered to at every twist and turn over the last few years and these organisations (TV companies & governing bodies) that claim to be standing up for the fans about the ESL are the root of this.

The governing bodies have been rightly outraged. However these organisations putting themselves on superior pedestals is ridiculous. Corruption and bribery is rife. Presidents convicted and a World Cup handed out based on payments sums them up.

If this ESL saga has shown fans anything, I hope it highlights the greed and ignorance of all involved in football. Football isn’t about money, it’s about the joy of supporting your team. Leicester winning the league at 500-1, NUFC coming back from 0-4 to Arsenal to draw.

Fans are what matter in football and that has been forgotten. We can’t sit back now, patting ourselves on the back that we’ve stopped it. Sky, the PL, UEFA etc all need to readdress the priorities and ensure that something like this can not happen again.

Fans have shown their power and these organisations need to ensure the priority in all decisions made is not based on money. Put the fans front and centre of everything, they are the ones that make football.