THERE are some areas of society in which the cost of living crisis is but a buzzphrase on the six o'clock news: it is the preserve of the working classes not energy firm bosses, hedge fund managers and certainly not English Premier League clubs.
While the rest of European football struggles to keep the lights on the Big Six in England have spent at a rampant rate accounting for £628 million of the more than £1.2 billion total spent so far, which means the 14 clubs beneath them haven't exactly been tightening their belts either.
