Quote from: Matt Collins on October 03, 2011, 07:34:30 AMI've never understood how bars are able to so openly show games at 3pm on saturdays. I thought it was illegal? There is a European Court Judgment this week that may well do that. A landlady in Portsmouth has gone to court to retain the right to show PL 3 pm Saturday games via a Greek satellite, the argument being that she should be freely able to purchase the rights anywhere in the European Union.
I've never understood how bars are able to so openly show games at 3pm on saturdays. I thought it was illegal?
We have been brainwashed via sky that football is now a tv sport and the fans are merely a sound backdrop to the production - even that is claimed to be dubbed for foreign tv companies to add to the excitiment of the prem.
There is a row bubbling along in the Black Country via the E+S after comments made by Moxey about TV games at three affecting attendances at the Wolves.He sounded like he was having a right old whinge, and has provoked plenty of comment mainly pointing out that the prices are too high.This is a situation bought about by the games greed and avarice and rather than moaning, clubs should be pro-active in addressing the situation.
It's a scary thought as I was going to post that the income from people attending is decreasing as a % of turnover to the point where dropping the ticket prices might not make a huge difference to turnover (i.e. more people attending but paying a smaller amount each)
If it wasn't for sky would the games be cheaper or more expensive? Surely if Sky are pumping money in then they are bringing down the game to game cost?