COLIN BOAG

Assuming we getthrough this one, next season is going to be very different for the Premiership. For years the clubs have been living beyond their means, but the revised salary cap is finally likely to change that.
‘Living beyond their means’ needs to be clari- fied: it isn’t exactly what Mr Micawber said, but it’s where there is a relation- ship between income and expenditure that inevitably involves a rich owner pumping money in at the end of every season to keep the club afloat. In other words, clubs running up unsustainable losses driven by ev...