Players will get on board when they realize that 50% to 60% of the money will filter down to them.

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Their homes look like pages out of interior design magazines, their thoughts processed through the filter of too much money and not enough reality.

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And at the start of this month, the FA chairman called for more money generated by the Premier League to filter down the football pyramid.

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Now that the bank has clawed back money, perhaps the message will start to filter through.

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