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TV rights deal: Richard Scudamore says Premier League 'not a charity'



Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
69,880
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31384481

How should grass-roots football respond to the utterances of these god-like creatures?

Tell them to cufk right off?

Bow at the knee to their omnipotence?

Cancel SKY Sports subscription and rely on MOTD that only shows the highlights and edits over most of their near-human hoofs and scuffs?

Personally really REALLY looking forward to the day when the whole deal implodes in an Emperors New Clothes stylee.
 


Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,730
Brighton
Who was confused, and thinking it WAS a charity?
 




Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Jul 11, 2003
59,199
The Fatherland
I caught him briefly on Radio 5 this morning and the guy is a total ****. When it was put to him people were being priced out of the game he basically said most single men without family earning average wage can afford to go....but others ie father and son have to make a choice.

It's sad what "English" football has become and this is another step I will take away from the game.
 


SAC

Well-known member
May 21, 2014
2,534
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31384481

How should grass-roots football respond to the utterances of these god-like creatures?

Tell them to cufk right off?

Bow at the knee to their omnipotence?

Cancel SKY Sports subscription and rely on MOTD that only shows the highlights and edits over most of their near-human hoofs and scuffs?

Personally really REALLY looking forward to the day when the whole deal implodes in an Emperors New Clothes stylee.

Although a lot of the money now comes from abroad, if people really do dislike Murdoch and Sky, the only thing to do is not give them any money.
 




nicko31

Well-known member
Jan 7, 2010
17,523
Gods country fortnightly
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31384481

How should grass-roots football respond to the utterances of these god-like creatures?

Tell them to cufk right off?

Bow at the knee to their omnipotence?

Cancel SKY Sports subscription and rely on MOTD that only shows the highlights and edits over most of their near-human hoofs and scuffs?

Personally really REALLY looking forward to the day when the whole deal implodes in an Emperors New Clothes stylee.

All booms bust it will, there is a limit what the public will pay
 


Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
NSC Patreon
Oct 27, 2003
20,938
The arse end of Hangleton
he's right but it would be nice if one of his now ex-members hadn't scewed over real charities. Maybe the PL would like to compensate them from the £5bn.
 


Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,324
Uffern
Personally really REALLY looking forward to the day when the whole deal implodes in an Emperors New Clothes stylee.

All booms bust it will, there is a limit what the public will pay

I keep seeing this - and something like it has been said for at least the last 10 years. There's little sign of it happening: one of the reasons that the money increased so much was that Sky and BT were under pressure from two other bidders, a US one and a Qatari. Next time round, there'll probably be more Middle East interest and maybe some Chinese and Indian one too.

Why? Because every time the issue of a Sky boycott is raised on here, the thread is full of people saying they're not happy to pay the increased costs but will keep on doing it. If people are happy to pay, the bids will keep on coming in.
 




seagullsovergrimsby

#cpfctinpotclub
Aug 21, 2005
43,690
Crap Town
The FFP rules will have to be rewritten too. Parachute payments to relegated clubs when the new rights deal kicks in will be increased pro rata.
 








seagullsovergrimsby

#cpfctinpotclub
Aug 21, 2005
43,690
Crap Town
If the recent changes to the FFP rules are anything to go by then that is the last thing clubs not in receipt of parachute payments should want!

The three relegated clubs starting life in The Championship for the 2017/18 season will get 70% more than the three relegated clubs from the season before.
 




Nitram

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2013
2,178
Sadly it's typical of the insulated world those in charge of the Premiership have. Greed and self interest over ride the bigger picture and common good. An illustration of how over the last twenty years the game has forgotten its roots.
 




Mo Gosfield

Well-known member
Aug 11, 2010
6,276
Sadly it's typical of the insulated world those in charge of the Premiership have. Greed and self interest over ride the bigger picture and common good. An illustration of how over the last twenty years the game has forgotten its roots.

The PL was established to safeguard and strengthen the biggest clubs in this country. To this end it has succeeded. It is elitist and self-centred. It looks after its own. It has little or no interest in the pyramid below it. The rest of us are surviving on scraps thrown from the table.
It encourages the armchair fan to throw his/her weight behind one of the top clubs. It doesn't unite football, it divides it.
 


Gritt23

New member
Jul 7, 2003
14,902
Meopham, Kent.
The whole Premier League marketing machine just spouts such relentless shite all the time, that we hardly notice half of the nonsense they come out with.

The piece of self-deluded shite that got me was when Scudamore referred to the Premier League as "having the BEST players in the World" and no-one (apologies if picked up elsewhere on NSC) batted an eyelid or questioned him on which clubs had just signed, Messi, and Ronaldo, not to mention Neymar, Ibrahimovic, Bale, James Rodriguez, Muller and Robben.

Yes, we have a few very good players over here, but the vast majority hit their peak and head away from these shores.

It's like the "best league in the World" shite, they just spout this nonsense without anyone ever challenging by what measure they make that claim. The best "marketing" of any league in the World, yeah, I'll give them that, but that it's what they are trying to tell us.

The whole thing just makes my blood run cold. Enormous money at the top, and what does it mean for fans? That they can afford to reduce ticket prices? Yes they can, and no they won't. Players, managers, agents and senior staff at clubs will earn phenomenal money, and we'll all end up paying for it. Modern football, please let it all explode soon.
 



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