So, a domestic Spanish football game will be played in either the USA or Canada in the very near future, possibly as early as next year and the prospect of that stink wafting its way over to England begins to get stronger.

Spanish governing body La Liga announced the news it had struck a ground-breaking deal to play a game a year in North America for the next 15 years. Not a pre-season friendly or a glitzy money-grab blowout, an actual legitimate points-put-on-the-table regular-season game. What a terrifying prospect. As somebody who travels the country to support my team, I repeat, what an absolutely terrifying prospect.

I understand football has been globalised, even to the extent that now, these deals and this kind of 3,500 mile away day talk is only the start of it. In a now completely international business and sport dominated by billions and billions of pounds, money talks.

There were rumblings of an extra international game about this idea about a decade ago but that idea was flushed amid strong opposition.

In American football, the Jacksonville Jaguars play a game a year in London and will do so until at least 2020 and the team's multi-billionaire owner Shahid Khan, who also happens to own Fulham FC, will be rubbing his hands and that is because the Jacksonville team make more money from its London game than any of its games in Jacksonville.

A recent BBC investigation found that more than half of last season’s Premier League teams could have played in an empty stadium and still made a pre-tax profit.

As TV deals escalate and mutilate, clubs shared a record £8.3 billion in worldwide TV money last year, money from matchdays contributed less than 20p in every £1 earned by 18 of the top flight’s 20 teams.

Sadly, in strictly money-making terms, clubs do not rely on fans turning up and handing over money for tickets which is incredibly sad.

But I'm afraid this kind of deal is a punch to the face to loyal supporters. I think it would be a mistake to sell out to money when things so much greater and so more important than money are invested in football. It's more than just the actual match.

The lure of money may be there for owners but the loyalty and passion of fans is priceless.

If it did happen in England, at what price will it come?