The Football Thread 2017-18

[Tomous]

Surprised Disney didn't get in on this, what with them hoovering up the world.

Seeing as they own 39% of Sky after buying Fox, they kinda did get in on it.

[Preezy]

Surprised Disney didn't get in on this, what with them hoovering up the world.

Seeing as they own 39% of Sky after buying Fox, they kinda did get in on it.

Good point

[Ecno]

BBC suggesting the two remaining packages are unsold because reserve prices haven't been met.

With Sky saving money, it does seem, at least domestically, the money is finally levelling out.

I'd rather Sky just buy it. Splitting the packages was the most damaging thing they did and having 3 broadcasters would be a joke.

That was the Competition Commission’s fault, who, in an effort to help consumers, made the situation worse by requiring the rights to be split across more than one broadcaster.

Competition that would benefit the consumer would be where more than one channel were able to show the same games.

The issue I assume was that the CC treated football matches as homogenous which isn't the case I don't want to watch any football match I want to watch specific football matches, i.e. no one thinks I want to watch football Sky is £40 BT is £20 I'll take BT. Though at least it got rid of the pre runner to Sky Sports PL where you basically paid another £100 to get to watch all the PL.

Completely agree about football matches being on more than 1 channel! I assume the end game though is for the PL to offer a direct subscription service like the American sports. They also need to get rid of that silly rule re 3pm kick offs.

[Photek]

BBC suggesting the two remaining packages are unsold because reserve prices haven't been met.

With Sky saving money, it does seem, at least domestically, the money is finally levelling out.

I'd rather Sky just buy it. Splitting the packages was the most damaging thing they did and having 3 broadcasters would be a joke.

That was the Competition Commission’s fault, who, in an effort to help consumers, made the situation worse by requiring the rights to be split across more than one broadcaster.

Competition that would benefit the consumer would be where more than one channel were able to show the same games.

The issue I assume was that the CC treated football matches as homogenous which isn't the case I don't want to watch any football match I want to watch specific football matches, i.e. no one thinks I want to watch football Sky is £40 BT is £20 I'll take BT. Though at least it got rid of the pre runner to Sky Sports PL where you basically paid another £100 to get to watch all the PL.

Completely agree about football matches being on more than 1 channel! I assume the end game though is for the PL to offer a direct subscription service like the American sports. They also need to get rid of that silly rule re 3pm kick offs.

We obviously don’t have that rule about 3pm kick offs so my sky sports subscription gets me about 20 extra live matches.

[shadow202]

Well this is going well, let's hope we don't Liverpool the second half.

[Mini E]

"Well that was nice wasn't it?"

- that was fantastic commentary on BT for Liverpool's second.

[shadow202]

"Well that was nice wasn't it?"

[emoji38] [emoji38] - that was fantastic commentary on BT for Liverpool's second.

Tbf he is right, it was nice lol

[Photek]

Relaxed as fook Salah was.

[Moggy]

The Premier League is nothing compared to the NFL, it’s equal with NBA and ahead of MLB (annual figures):

NFL: £3.24b
NBA: £1.7b
MLB: £1.02b
Premier League: £1.7b

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43002985

Dat NFL cash

[PES Fan]

The Premier League is nothing compared to the NFL, it’s equal with NBA and ahead of MLB (annual figures):

NFL: £3.24b
NBA: £1.7b
MLB: £1.02b
Premier League: £1.7b

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43002985

Dat NFL cash

To be fair that’s not really surprising. America is a bigger country and there are more NFL fans in America than there are more premier league fans in England.

The overseas rights, I’m guessing the premier league does better than NFL or any other sport.

I knew all this talk about Amazon or another company getting involved was just leaks from Scudamore to pressure Sky and BT.

[Moggy]

The Premier League is nothing compared to the NFL, it’s equal with NBA and ahead of MLB (annual figures):

NFL: £3.24b
NBA: £1.7b
MLB: £1.02b
Premier League: £1.7b

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43002985

Dat NFL cash

To be fair that’s not really surprising. America is a bigger country and there are more NFL fans in America than there are more premier league fans in England.

The overseas rights, I’m guessing the premier league does better than NFL or any other sport.

I knew all this talk about Amazon or another company getting involved was just leaks from Scudamore to pressure Sky and BT.

Oh yeah, I wasn’t arguing that it was surprising.

Although I think a lot of the NFL games in the US are on terrestrial TV, they must make a strawberry floating fortune in advertising to keep it mostly free to air.

[Blue Eyes]

Neymar should be off!

[Tomous]

Neymar should be off!

Ref bottled it

[Mini E]

Two English teams taking 4-0 leads into the home legs. Wow.

[shadow202]

Neymar should be off!

I didn't see it but strawberry float it, after Modric awful dive strawberry float them.

Looks like we are actually going to win this game and comfortably which is nice

[Photek]

5 strawberry floating nil!

[shadow202]

Get in, good to see Mane back on the score sheet.

[PES Fan]

Jesus, that’s a incredible result for Liverpool. Porto don’t tend to be mugs at home.

[Blue Eyes]

5-0?! Against Porto?! There’s something wrong with the Champions League when teams can absolutely piss all over another away from home at this stage of the competition.

[ITSMILNER]

Real 3-1 up now