The premier League gone mad!

kayos

kayos

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So Sky and BT are paying £5.14 billion for the rights to televise football matches!!??

This is more than the GDP of some 50 small countries!

Has the world gone mad? Where will it end?

Million pound a week wages? £50 a month to watch Sky? More foreign players, damaging the international team's chances of ever doing anything? More players only playing for money, not pride in the club? More diving, cheating and conning the ref? No benefit to the supporters at all in lower ticket prices, just more games played at any time other than the traditional 3pm on a Saturday?

Thank goodness I am not a football fan...............or a Sky Sports customer!!
 
Considering murdochs personal worth is over 13 billion a drop on the ocean for him, what I can't understand is why the owner of Facebook paid silly amounts for what's app, it's life the rich get richer, and money makes money fact,
 
Bob C said:
Madness. & £50 a Month for Sky lol. More like £75.
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Probably Bob, I meant just the sports package, but as I don't have any sports with Virgin, I was just guessing! Can't understand how they will recoup their investment? I thought football was supposed to be a "Working man's game!" You would need some damn good work to pay for it these days!
 
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kayos said:
Probably Bob, I meant just the sports package, but as I don't have any sports with Virgin, I was just guessing! Can't understand how they will recoup their investment? I thought football was supposed to be a "Working man's game!" You would need some damn good work to pay for it these days!
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That's what there claiming that there investment is giving the sport back to the working class man haha yea right.
 
However my mate has a local pub that holds around 300 people max, sky charge pubs by the square metre and for that people they wanted £1400 a month subscription, then £500 plus for box office events. that's how they make there money.
 
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Philthebag said:
However my mate has a local pub that holds around 300 people max, sky charge pubs by the square metre and for that people they wanted £1400 a month subscription, then £500 plus for box office events. that's how they make there money.
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Nee the wonder loads of pubs and WMC are closing down. It wouldn't be so bad if they got to pick from all games played every week. It would bring a lot more people in regularly.
 
Nooo Fish said:
Nee the wonder loads of pubs and WMC are closing down. It wouldn't be so bad if they got to pick from all games played every week. It would bring a lot more people in regularly.
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I agree surely they could bring regional versions out all the weatherspoons pay £1million a month for sky!!!!!
 
Philthebag said:
I agree surely they could bring regional versions out all the weatherspoons pay £1million a month for sky!!!!!
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I have never been in a Wetherspoon's pub that shows live football matches, Sky news, with the sound turn down, yes, but not live games.

Is it different in England?
 
Are those android box thingy mejigs any good do they work, sky is a rip off like, but need dave for river monsters and top gear but I'm considering a box thingy, gone off point a bit, yes football gone mad, that Chelsea boss is boring egotisticàl knob
 
kayos said:
So Sky and BT are paying £5.14 billion for the rights to televise football matches!!??

This is more than the GDP of some 50 small countries!

Has the world gone mad? Where will it end?

Million pound a week wages? £50 a month to watch Sky? More foreign players, damaging the international team's chances of ever doing anything? More players only playing for money, not pride in the club? More diving, cheating and conning the ref? No benefit to the supporters at all in lower ticket prices, just more games played at any time other than the traditional 3pm on a Saturday?

Thank goodness I am not a football fan...............or a Sky Sports customer!!
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why make a thread on the English Premier league then? or the investment in it by SKY? especially since you're a jock non-football fan? doesn't make much sense to me :rolleyes::confused::confused:
 
paul davison said:
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why make a thread on the English Premier league then? or the investment in it by SKY? especially since you're a jock non-football fan? doesn't make much sense to me :rolleyes::confused::confused:
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Says the man who joined a fishing forum, but has never actually taken the time to post a thread about fishing!! :rolleyes:
 
The original post is valid too. Any non football fan would ask why these vast sums of money are being spent on something so trivial.
 
What's even scarier is the fact falcao is getting paid £300000 a week and is allowed to put up to 60% a week tax free into his pension same as all footballers as they have a short career!!!! Wow !!!! What about all the ex player who go onto manage or coach or tv or even go to lower leagues or abroad, it's stinks if you ask me if the footballers are on that type of money they should be made to pay super tax like anyone else who earns that type of money, it's preferential treatment like this which makes most off them bell ends who think there untouchable by the law.
 
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I think the tradition of grandfather, father and son, supporting their local football teams and passing on that heritage will be lost forever within a few years, if it hasn't been already.

When Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, 14 of the 15 man squad were born and brought up in Glasgow within 10 miles of Celtic Park, the odd one out was Bobby Lennos who was born 25 miles away in Salcoats. That was what football was about, being able to identify with your local heroes on the park and to dream as a youngster that you could emulate them when you grew up.

I fail to understand how people can still get so passionate about football clubs these days when most players are just mercenaries, with no connection or love for the football club, but there purely for the money? Players kissing the badge on their shirt when they score, while off the field their agent is planning the players next move to another club offering even more offensive sums of cash and the true supporter struggles to afford the ticket price every week.

The obscene levels of cash being poured into the game by Sky and BT will destroy the heritage of clubs and in the long term, change football for the worse and perhaps kill it forever.
 
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kayos said:
Says the man who joined a fishing forum, but has never actually taken the time to post a thread about fishing!! :rolleyes:
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i think ive made a total of 30 odd posts on the whole forum! i prefer to read not to post, but as it happens ive posted quite a few times on fishing topics

it was a simple question, just not sure how you formed your opinion about fans relating to players, atmosphere , passion etc when you're not interested in the sport , been to many games lately?

i still go to nufc games with my family, grand parent , son & grandson , 3 generations of us:cool:
 
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