How will you recreate the matchday experience when the PL returns?

Norman_Conquest said:
The BBC would like your suggestions.

:unsure: I think I will cancel Sky Sport's and watch anything else other than these soulless games.

These people honestly think the world revolves around the all singing and dancing PL. I have a feeling they might get a shock.


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I don’t think you could be more wrong TBH. There will be millions of people around the world watching these games, probably more than usual.
 
atypical_boro said:
I don’t think you could be more wrong TBH. There will be millions of people around the world watching these games, probably more than usual.
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I am not saying you are wrong , but what makes you think that there will be more people watching than usual?

The live games on the Beeb might initially see an uptake, but I feel that will soon drop off due to the lack of atmosphere.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I am not saying you are wrong , but what makes you think that there will be more people watching than usual?

The live games on the Beeb might initially see an uptake, but I feel that will soon drop off due to the lack of atmosphere.
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Because there’ll be no one in the grounds, there’ll be more watching at home, plus lots of people are actually missing football and will be glad to have it back on telly. Let’s not forget that the PL actually has 20 clubs in it all of whom have plenty of fans, some of whom around the world who don’t view the PL as the root of all evil.
 
atypical_boro said:
Because there’ll be no one in the grounds, there’ll be more watching at home, plus lots of people are actually missing football and will be glad to have it back on telly. Let’s not forget that the PL actually has 20 clubs in it all of whom have plenty of fans, some of whom around the world who don’t view the PL as the root of all evil.
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I just don’t buy it. Yes, you might have 40,000 home and away fans watching and the usual armchair fans, with the latter impacted on by the lack of atmosphere. The thrill of having football back will soon wane.

Edit: I forgot to say that other fans will be arching their own teams games on beam back, unless they stagger all the matches.
 
I agree it will wane at some point, and at that point it’ll probably return to its normal viewing figures, which are fans of both clubs and a few general PL fans.
 
Burnley v Crystal Palace - a "dead" game with no fans. Every word will be audible. Players not operating at full tilt in warm conditions? What possibly will be exciting to most neutrals watching that? I have to say it doesn't fill me with any excitement whatsoever and I do FPL fantasy football religiously so I do have some buy in to what goes on however tenuous.

By the way how do "we" create the match day experience? Throw toilet rolls at the TV, hurl abuse at the wife and kids for not "singing anymore". Throw a fiver away and have a cup of flaccid coffee and a luke warm pie?
 
There was a comment in the paper earlier this week from a top Bobby. He wanted to know what plans they had in place for crowd dispersal, etc.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
Is that true?
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I’ve just found this on the BBC. Apparently there was 6 million fans tuned in for the first games and the second week it dropped to 3 million.

Anyway, read it yourself.

Record-breaking television ratings

While the experience for television viewers might not be perfect, the ratings for Sky Germany, the main television rights-holder, have been record-breaking, with over six million tuning in to watch the first few matches after the break on 16 May, a market share of over 60% among 14 to 49-year-olds. A week later, with the novelty gone, a still-impressive three million were watching the Saturday games.
The numbers could be regarded as outliers because a portion of the matches were available on Sky's free TV and not only on their subscription channels. But the restart has paid off for the company, which continues to adjust the broadcasts, experimenting with artificial crowd noises to combat the silence.
 
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