TV coverage free-to-air etc. Back to normal next season
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hopesoboro
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They're businesses, they need to make money. Do you want them to get rid of staff?
Randy
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Well clubs need the money without fans in the ground.
Broadcasters aren't charities.
asredastheycome
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Could do with getting rid of Sky really watched very few (bits of) Premier League games since it came back.
Does this apply to EFL? Is this just a report at this stage?
BobUpnDown
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I can't stand the way football authorities have sold the TV rights & the way the sport is delivered to fans, Sky have been detrimental to the attending fans for years, BT is making up for lost time.
They pump more money into the game, however all they have done is widen the gap between the PL & the rest of football, plus make it more & more expensive for fans to attend, expensive to watch on TV & decimate the schedule with games almost any day it seems.
Players benefit with - huge & unmerited - contracts (for the vast majority of little more than jobbing players)
Money has ruined the game & it it is allowed to continue - fit & proper, pffff - the majority of the game will fall away for a few Franchise FC & criminally un-competitive (except for the richest) competition...
They pump more money into the game, however all they have done is widen the gap between the PL & the rest of football, plus make it more & more expensive for fans to attend, expensive to watch on TV & decimate the schedule with games almost any day it seems.
Players benefit with - huge & unmerited - contracts (for the vast majority of little more than jobbing players)
Money has ruined the game & it it is allowed to continue - fit & proper, pffff - the majority of the game will fall away for a few Franchise FC & criminally un-competitive (except for the richest) competition...
Lottowyn
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Article in Times only mentions Premier League games. Also says that some Sky viewing figures have been disappointing low.
McBrid
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Bournemouth if Howe is there. Can see the love in already.
Erimus74
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Couldnt agree more
TeaCider
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Is that really surprising?
This PL season has been dreadfully dull for the main part, the league was won in December.
lostinyorkshire
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Come on how else are the likes of Rudy Gestede going to become multi millionaires by been ***** at something
Corcaigh_the_Cat
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Anybody else feeling less bothered about football?
atypical_boro
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All sports have gone the same way though. Things just change. TV isn’t the same as it used to be. There is no going back to only one game per week televised for free though, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
theredrooster
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I get what you're saying but is it not important to try to maintain that contact with the common man otherwise people cease to care/have less interest in the overall product (hate calling it that).
Take the Champions League on BT Sport, I used to love it and take an active interest when on ITV sport (odd live game and highlights). Now, other than noting the teams that have made the final/won it, over time I have less interest in it as I can't watch it. Barely even note group game results these days.
I do think having the odd free game for the masses is a good thing, but to be honest BobUpNDown nailed what's wrong with football in his post. Too much tv money has spoilt it.
Erimus74
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Other than the Boro I couldn't really give two hoots for the PL, more in common with the championship & lower leagues
Erimus74
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Unfortunately no you can't
Brian Clough was right, he said too much live football will ruin it
atypical_boro
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Well he also sang “it’s only a sport, a wonderful sport, the television’s giving it support” in 1973
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret
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I think sky's choice of matches for the final day of the season showed the begrudging way they felt about showing games free to air.
I think the big impact coronavirus will have is on streaming matches. I think within five years I'll be able to watch every Boro game live via streaming.
I think the big impact coronavirus will have is on streaming matches. I think within five years I'll be able to watch every Boro game live via streaming.
atypical_boro
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Maybe less.
I’ll be crucified for saying this but even though I wasn’t in the ground this summer for our matches (no one was), I didn’t feel any less passionate about it?
