The principle of giving the lower league clubs some of the PL tv money is an excellent one. The problem is the lower leagues contain enough unscrupulous owners there's a significant chance it would disappear into their pockets at certain clubs.
For example, check the Northampton Town stadium issue. Not sure about their current owners so I'm not singling them out, just showing what can happen when a large cash injection happens at some places. There are other clubs but it's probably best not to mention them specifically.
If there was a way to ensure the money was used exclusively for football and non director staff pay maybe, but I suspect it would be opening a minefield to police.
Moreover, given the unedifying and unending appetite to dominate the game in this country from the top six, I'm sure they'd use it as some kind of leverage to later force through either B teams in the lower leagues or letting them take over smaller clubs as feeder clubs.
You also have to add in the fact that there will be a reckoning with the tv companies yet to come. Clubs in the PL have budgeted and given out contracts based on that circa £130 million tv money but that isn't all going to arrive. The season hasn't been completed and the chances of it being completed in full before the next one are slim to marginal.
Wisely, Sky and BT are just quietly letting subscribers pause their subscriptions at the moment. Now isn't the time to start quibbling with the clubs. It'll come though and the chances are the clubs will lose a big chunk of cash. Not to mention the same issue with sponsors, corporate box clients and so on.
A bit like getting a big pay rise and buying a bigger house, whilst the take home may look huge to others the outgoings close to account for it all. Take a big hit to that wage and you may be in just as much trouble as someone in a small house on a smaller wage.
Plus, it's Gillingham.
