Football

You are telling me that -

Home fans nos. are what influences attendance most.
Home fans would like to see their team win every week.

Well fuck me sideways. I just can't believe it.

There is absolutely no contradiction between that and the fact that the PL would be better if it was less predictable.

FWIW I have no problem with the (pretty much inevitable) fact that the teams who have the biggest crowds and who bring through the best youth team players will tend towards the top, whilst those who have the smallest crowds and a useless youth set up will tend towards the bottom. I do have a problem with the fact that the PL could be more unpredictable and that many of the best players that we could be watching are bench warming, whilst much worse players get played week in week out at other clubs.

So are you telling me that having a less predictable league by forcing more players of better quality will result in more varied winners? And increased quality? (have you been reading Zen and motorcycle maintenance lately? is this what's given you a boner for this?)
let's look at the NFL:
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions[/ame]

that doesn't look predictable at all does it? Colts, Patriots recently? Steelers?
But they, don't they? They do. They do share talent around. They do cap salaries. They do all the things you probably want, sharing money around evenly, and yet. There are still teams that tend to do better than others over the long term.

And yet. PEOPLE STILL pour their money into watching the game there.
I take comfort in Derby being predictably a bit shit.