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Good morning fight fans.
Every site is telling us that Dances with Scones has got away with ‘that’ incident. I beg to differ. He would have generated less publicity had he been carded there and then. All this business has done is ensured that every referee between here and Hong Kong has watched the footage – which in slo mo does Tommy no favours at all – and pretty much leaves him a marked man in Europe.
Another niggle revolves around Europe and specifically the Inter Milan game. Or rather the manner in which the whole ticketing deal is being handled. An allocation of 5000 seems on the low side and explained away by THFC as being down to operational reasons. Presumably that translates to how many gendarmes they can rustle up.
You’d think with all that filthy Champions League loot flying about some of it might be diverted from disappearing into Club coffers and go into making the event more accessible to fans… who will will not add to the occasion but also …ultimately generate …more money.
And there is of course the endless dramas faced by fans who want to simply stay either at home or go to the juicer to watch a game. The Landlord of the Red, White & Blue pub in Portsmouth is tilting the windmill marked, ‘Premier League’.
Karen Murphy is attempting to assert her right to buy what she wants in terms of televised games. Her argument certainly makes sense financially. The Red, White & Blue is typical of a vast number of British boozers. Not very big and probably in these testing times scrapping for every penny. The cost of Sky for any licensed venue can be in excess of £1000, whilst a comparable service from a company such as Nova bills in at about a tenth of that.
And you don’t have to put up with the monkey pawed Dicky Keys or the balloon with pubes stuck it’s sides that is Andy Gray.
If Karen is successful it’ll be not so much a landmark case but a modern day equivalent of the collapse of the Roman Empire. I wish her well, but if it happens I’d like to request my hat be marinated in Nando’s Peri Peri sauce prior to me tucking in.
My solution would be for the clubs to license the Premier League to flog TV Season Tickets. As longs as going to a game is 100 times better than watching it on the telly, attendances won’t be affected.
Many supporters simply can’t get to games anymore. Pick a factor. Cost. Kids. Travel. The general agg of getting from where they live to their stadium of choice. Membership charges, handling fees, recorded delivery, hotels, buses, tubes that are shut… the list goes on forever.
The cost of such a lunatic scheme would ultimately be against what the market could bear, but hey we need something to whine about. No?
Or you can go bald trying to get a naffing online stream to work.
Oh yes, here’s VdV tucking in to some old dear…
Professor Pot might “nedd to READ what you are typing” before slagging us kettles…
“your” :shocked2: right of course :-D
HH gets alot more abuse now its back on newsnow,like before oleole everything has its ups and downs,
to be honest i couldn’t give a twonk what foreign tv markets want or get,it would be nice to be able to watch english football on tv in england in this digi day and age,as in my choice
i suspect the powers that be want a euro super league or NFL style type system in which case i’ll start supporting a championship(or whatever is left in england) team and hopefully alot of others will do to,
then it won’t be long until the tv comes knocking on the door because of the atmosphere,style and local rivalry of english football that appeals to people and we will be off again,rinse and repeat
up the revolution,right on and hug a tree…. :-p
Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
Blaming Big Business for the money in the CL is kind of silly. Sure, there is a lot of money. And where there is a lot of money, there are a lot of people who’s only motivation is to put some of said money in their pocket.
If nobody watched CL, would there still be dizzying amounts of money in CL? No.
Not about the fans, eh? The problem is, which fans is it about? The 36.000 in the stadium or the millions watching on telly around the world? You do the math.
Though I thoroughly agree with your point HH, that if the shameful ticket alottment is down to an apparent lack of funding for policing, where the flying f*ck are UEFA’s money-buckets? Even the most retarded of UEFA’s sponsors know that empty stands is bad for business. And I’m not talking about the tens of thousands of pounds in ticket revenues, but the millions tied to the TV ratings the games receive. Believe me, for neutral fans: empty stands = I’ll check what else is on then.
Maybe it is time for the clubs / Premier League to start thinking about breaking away from the clutches of Rupert Murdoch.
I would rather pay the club direct £X every month to watch all our games rather than pay Murdoch £50 a month to watch loads of games, of which we are probably shown on average 2 or 3 times a month.
Yes something like this would make the rich clubs richer as they could charge more than smaller teams such as Wigan, Blackpool etc.
If we were to charge £20 a month & gained about 170,000 subscribers, that would be over £30m in revenue. That is a cost to me of about £180 over the season, which is about what it costs me & my son to go to a game on the train, with food & a few beers. I would have no objection to be Pay Per View for Cup matches either.
Blimey, this is rather swish… Hello everyone!
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