It was in fact Graeme Souness on Sky Sports who said that spending money on the ground and infrastructure was lovely but naïve in a pre-match preamble when Burnley were on live. Sean Dyche was showing the cameras around the Gawthorpe training area (a place that floods frequently with waterlogged training pitches) and explaining all the improvements to drainage, pitches, buildings, the players centre and media centre. At the stadium itself security improvement and upgrading has been extensive. This was money that Premier League rules demanded be spent. There was no way round it: Premier League demands fill a 400+ page ring binder covering pitch size to dressing rooms including separate facilities for female referees. So, money had to be spent on upgrading dressing rooms to a standard befitting the elevated place in the Premier League. Turnstile admission is now by plastic card and computer. As a bonus it actually generated money by stopping the abuse of the old season ticket book system whereby many adults were buying cheap junior tickets. Security cameras can now home in on a fly landing on a pimple on the end of your nose anywhere in the stadium. Hooligans beware; the camera security system is now the best that technology can provide
