Yep - this. I dont have Sky Sports (used to) and dinna miss it in the slightest.Originally Posted by 57vintage
I do have BT Sport currently as I get it with my phone & Broadband package for £3 per month. I've kept it since they started charging a couple of years ago as at least they've given a pretence of giving a f'uck about Scottish fitba the last few years & covering more than just the ugly sisters.
End of next season when they lose Scottish fitba rights its gone though. I'll be cancelling.
I could afford Sky Sports, but the money being chucked about down south is obscene (unless we get a big slice of the pie for Fraser & McKenna of course) and I simply refuse to be part of it. I dont understand why so many people are happy to fork out for this abomination if I'm honest.
As for the thread title, fitba was f'ucked the minute the "champions" league came into existence. Its just many of us didnt see it at the time - I certainly didnt. Gradually ever since the power and money has been massively shifted to the elite few & f'uck the rest of us.
They've pretty much got their European super league now with the way the Champions league slots are allocated. The only good thing about it is it tends to shaft Timothy as they are seen as one of the diddy clubs which is very amusing.
The fact its an absolute borefest until the quarter finals - ironically because even at that level the way its financed & seeded means little competition for the biggest 8-10 clubs - is irrelevant to UEFA & the big clubs as long as the dosh keep rolling in.
Successful & exciting sport is based on uncertainty & competition. Without that you have very little "product" to sell. Its a big part of the problem up here. The Americans realise this - despite being the most selfish capitalist nation on earth - & actively encourage competition & uncertainty in their main sports with their draft system & wage caps. Funnily enough they have the biggest commerical TV deals on the planet despite nobody outside the US really actually playing any of their main sports to any great degree.
The closed shop euro league for the biggest 18-20 clubs will happen - probably because people will eventually get bored with the procession to the quarter finals that the champions league has already become - but whilst English football especially is seen as the trendy must have plaything of the global financial elite, nothing will change anytime soon.
So just do your bit & dont fund it folks....
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