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[Lucky Rathen]

For those of us who only have council telly it's very annoying watching Sky Sports snap up the rights to everything. The only thing worth watching on BBC and ITV is the Champions League and the Formula 1. Sky Sports has the Premiership, Scotland matches, the rugby, NFL, WWE, most of the boxing, Indycar/NASCAR, the darts...

The most annoying part of this is that if you grudgingly pay the fuckers for their monthly subscription, you then have to pay Setanta as well if you want to watch the other third of the Premiership matches, and the SPL. If they are going to split the rights between two companies it's not proper that it's two companies you have to pay for. Football used to be the working man's game but Sky have made it an expensive luxury that many people can't afford. Plus the cheeky cunts have the gall to put the big boxing matches and the WWE events on Box Office, so you have to pay another £15 to watch them - yes, after you pay them to subscribe to the SPORTS CHANNELS, then they charge you extra to watch SPORT. The hoors have basically got a monopoly going on sport and they can charge what they like cos there's no alternative.

Consider yourself roundly booed Sky Sports. BOOOOOO.

[kingofdeon]

I totally disagree. I think Sky have totally revolutionized football for the good. the Premier League provides the best teams in Europe pretty much since 2000 and is by far the best league to watch(closely followed by La Liga). The money Sky have put has made the game much better IMO.

Though the gulf between the Premier League and the Championship is getting wider.

Originally Posted by kingofdeon

Though the gulf between the Premier League and the Championship is getting wider.

Nobody mentioned golf. hehe.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by kingofdeon

I totally disagree. I think Sky have totally revolutionized football for the good. the Premier League provides the best teams in Europe pretty much since 2000 and is by far the best league to watch(closely followed by La Liga). The money Sky have put has made the game much better IMO.

Though the gulf between the Premier League and the Championship is getting wider.

All Sky have done is make the rich teams richer and made it less accessible to the fans. Absolute shithawks. Plus I shouldn't have to go and stand in sweaty pub if I want to watch a Scotland game, that should be on BBC.

[milner]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

All Sky have done is make the rich teams richer and made it less accessible to the fans. Absolute shithawks. Plus I shouldn't have to go and stand in sweaty pub if I want to watch a Scotland game, that should be on BBC.

yup i agree, the money sky has pumped into football has made the gap between the big and small teams untouchable, there is very very little chance of any team in england bar man u, chelsea, liverpool or arsenal winning the league in the next 5-10 years, yes teams like villa may have a good season everynow and then but they wont come close to winning the league.
The prem league is the most boring in the world to watch, every team defends for 90 minutes because place more importance on not losing rather than winning due to the amount of money the prem league makes them, a team going down could actually go bust, not a good thing for football at all.
Your right Elwood, the cunts have made it impossible for people to watch any kind of major sport unless you pay through the teeth for it, but nevermind Arsenal are making record profits and John Terry gets paid more money in a month than alot make in their life time so you know its going to a good cause.........

[Original Spies]

Sky have almost obliterated Setanta for Premiership rights though. I don't know if it's next season, or in a few years, but they are hardly getting any games pretty soon. So you only need Setanta if you want to watch NEC Vs FC Twente, or the SPL.

Originally Posted by milner

The prem league is the most boring in the world to watch,

Are you fucking mental?

[Didz]

Originally Posted by kingofdeon

by far the best league to watch(closely followed by La Liga).

If you're going to make such bold statements at least make sense

I've preferred La Liga this season, EPL has become boring and predictable, the West Ham's v West Brom's are atrocious and the big games become so hyped up both teams are to scared of losing the match. I can't remember a classic ManU/Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool against each other from the last couple of years. The game on Saturday wasn't even that great to watch. Two mistakes and a couple of pens. Its come to the point where i actually prefer watching Sky Sports Centre than the actual match.

I agree with you on Sky's coverage tho, its spot on. Altho it may be blamed for glorifying the EPL to a level above its standard.

[Lee Anderson]

la liga is much better to watch than prem

[delboy]

sky are annoying but i am more than happy with the bbc highlights via match of the day. then again i'm regularly attending matches these days. setanta are even more annoying because they keep rearranging cambridge united games for their tv coverage. then again they do give us money for appearing live!

there's far too much football on television in my opinion anyways.

[cap'n euan]

I hate when Scotland games are on Sky TV while England games are shown on BBC Scotland. Doesn't make sense!