SKY TV

Its a football match. Not really that important.

A billion £ industry is not that important...

If I was Sky I'd more worried about losing subscriptions for Sky Sports due the the standard of football being screened each week. This season with a few exceptions has been dire and with the amount of money going up next season (cue SSports rise) they will be in danger of losing their audience.

Couldn't agree more, Mr Spock. This has been the least exciting Premier League ever which is capped by a really mediocre side p1ssing it.

Viewers will pay for the rise in money to the clubs (players) and I for one am close to having enough.

between them, the fa, premier league and uefa are destroying the top flite of english football.

I cancelled sky sports,mine,was switched off last monday,really fed up with sky coverage,poor commentators tyler apart,niall quinn was the final straw,any game where he was the analyst,had to press mute button,really fed up with their arrogance and over priced package.So many poor games this season as well.

Got to agree about Niall Quinn today.  I dont support newcastle or sunderland, but I couldnt believe how biased he was today.

add to that, the fact that redknapp is useless

Half the PL starts out games trying not to concede and try and steal a goal because being relegated is now so costly the emphasis is on not to lose.

The general lack of quality commentators and pundits is startling when compared to other sports such as cricket.  Sky no better or worse than BBC or ITV.  I couldn't name more than a handful of decent ones.

I'm more annoyed at sky for their scheduling and match choices in recent weeks which have been shocking (including for Spanish games).  They should be pulling out all the aces to see off imminent competition from BT yet they've been poor recently.

They are always going on about the PL being "the league of late goals".  I can't believe there are more late goals in the PL than in other leagues!  The other one that they were spouting on about until recently is that the title race will definitely "go to the wire".

Half the PL starts out games trying not to concede and try and steal a goal because being relegated is now so costly the emphasis is on not to lose.

That why FIFA need to offer more reward for a win. In Rugby they offer a extra point rewarded if a team scores a number of tries but not sure how many.

The general lack of quality commentators and pundits is startling when compared to other sports such as cricket.  Sky no better or worse than BBC or ITV.  I couldn't name more than a handful of decent ones.


agree 100%


i wonder if that is because cricket attracts people with more understanding of their game, that need to find a career after playing, whereas..... most footballers struggle with speaking about the game, and those with that ability have the lure of management.... which is better paid (usually) than football punditry

i also dont know why england coverage needs to be so biased, im english but
dont need the jingoism of it all

(and again not just sky sports at it)

do you mean that as english teams in the CL? because the favoritism of the comm's on those games are pathetic

well yes that is also true, i was meaning more engerland internationals, it would be
nice to get a balanced view for some of the bigger games we play


our local radio splits coverage for derby games, sunderland bias on one commentary, and
newcastle bias on the other, also happens for games involving middlesboro

i dont get the need for it all

Not paid for SKY for about 3 years now,can usually get a stream 5-6 seconds behind live. I never ever listen to pundits during a game.

most footballers struggle with speaking about the game

Last three words not needed imho..

Sky have vastly overpaid for the new 3 year contract.

Now they will try and recoup it from the mug suscribers.

Always thought football would start to struggle due to the ability to stream stuff on the internet so easily these days.

Maybe another 5-10 years.