Still can't fix why hockey never worked in U.K., seeing how big hockey is in Massachusetts and all the old Britain colons state in united states. Went to several Magnus league games in France, without being huge, french have quite a following, with exporting guys like Roussel, Bellemare, Huet...
One issue is nobody thinks future, only right now. The Elite league isn't interested in developing players - fair enough its an entertainment league. But the league below which has now gone, the EPL was a development league but only in name and was basically the 2nd tier trying to be entertainment businesses or they'd all have gone bankrupt.
Then you have IHUK - Run the Elite league and Team GB and English Ice Hockey Association who run the development of side and coaching but do basically nothing for anybody.
It needs to collapse and start over! its almost at that point now