Look at the world of football and you'd think there was no such thing as a global recession. With BSkyB paying record amounts for TV broadcast rights and a seemingly endless supply of indulgent billionaire owners, the football gravy train shows few signs of slowing.
But how long before Premiership Clubs' mountainous debts begin to bite? What effect will the recession have on gate receipts, sponsorships and merchandising deals?
None of these questions is answered in my round-up of the world's richest clubs (reporting on the annual Deloitte Football Money League report for Sky.com), but read it anyway. Who's up? Who's down? Who cares? They're all a bunch of overpaid pampered poseurs anyway and football's lost its soul. But that's another story...
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