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Where the rich get even richer

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GLANCING at the website of one of the clubs I used to report for at the Cambridge News, I saw St Neots Town would have won £25,000 had they pulled off a surprise at higher-grade opponents and win an FA Cup tie at Alfreton Town.
It got me thinking how awful the prize money for the increasingly devalued (by the ‘big boys’) FA Cup is distributed.
Alfreton now stand to win £36,000 on first round day – not bad for them but a drop in the ocean for Sunderland, whose reward for two seasons of failure was to start 2018-19 with an FA-approved parachute payment of £...

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