I must admit Dude that I do enjoy watching footie on the TV and I'm looking forward to the Manc derby tomorrow. But I'm lucky because I can afford the subs Sky charge. They must be worried about this court judgement last week that allowed a Portsmouth landlady to appeal the charge that she couldn't buy footie from a Greek company.
If that is allowed it would kill Saturday football here as it wouldn't prevent 3pm matches being shown live for a fraction of the price we currently pay. Sky could fold but if that happens who takes up the mantle? You could have all games controlled by a foreign body who treat the clubs and the fans even worse than Sky.
Better the devil you know maybe?
if murdoch's empire were to crash in the morning, I would be cracking open a bottle of bubbly, ASI.
i cancelled my membership 5 years ago. I had been with sky since the start (late 80s). But I was just fed up with the ghastly money in football.
if a monthly full sports package subscription were to suddenly drop to 5 pounds a month, players would still be earning a massive wage (maybe Torres would fall from 175,000 quid a week, to 25,000).
if this madness goes on unchecked, then we are heading for the american sports model - where the fees and wages are even more ghastly that the english premiership.
and despite all the money at present in football - clubs still are stupid enough to be operating at massive losses.
sanity needs to be restored.