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Sky put in a big bid but when it went to the 2nd round and they knew BT were going in they pulled out.
I think SS5 "The home of European football" needs a name change. Sky just left with their handful of EPL games now.
Still a sad end to an era. Goodbye Balligue, Revista etc.
Hello Robbie Savage
I think SS5 "The home of European football" needs a name change. Sky just left with their handful of EPL games now.
Still a sad end to an era. Goodbye Balligue, Revista etc.
Hello Robbie Savage
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Sports5 will have Dutch football and the SPL so keeping the crucial foriegn stuff
 Don't know about Sky having 'a handful' of EPL games though. Showing 3 or 4 a week. |
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Happy BT customer checking in
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just cancelled BT today.good luck to anybody wanting CL.can get most of the football on the NET.
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I have just signed an extended contract with BT
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Great for the consumer this.. higher bills, and less Sport on your tele. ffs
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extended contract ..wtf is that all about ?
cancelled myself ,overpriced carp ,there coverage of Scottish football is for infants with learning difficulties ,a know footie fans aint the sharpest tools in the box but they really take the p1ss . enough is enough ...10 Million to the EPL game for one game ....15 million to SPFL for entire season . FCK THEM ...JUST SAY NO |
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Next season will be the first for me without televised football since Sky Sports started showing it, cant say I'll miss it (apart from the odd really big game). As a layer of scores its far less stressful not having to watch donkeys on £80K+ a week blasting over from 6 yards out when you need a goal. Also knocked £60 a month of my Sky bill.
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what does Sky Sports have left?
Prem football, F1 and Rugby League  |
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MR SPOCK-U ARE SPOT ON.im cutting back on watching football,a lot of it is RUBBISH.just cancelled BT and SKY will be next.
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Si-K 01 Aug 15 18:59 Joined: 09 Jun 11 | Topic/replies: 4,844 | Blogger: Si-K's blog Great for the consumer this.. higher bills, and less Sport on your tele. ffs ^ Nailed it all the idiots saying happy BT customer lol |
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how is it higher bills, ditch sky and BT is still a quarter of the price ?
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when does this start next season?
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Makes me laugh that the regulators think that by having more choice the prices will come down...
I have three sky boxes and they will go and get the illegal choice for a months payment upfront.. |
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So sky have pulled out of the bidding in protest and have effectively told La Liga that they don't need them
 Hopefully as BT have got them on the cheap there wont be any need for any massive price hikes. |
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Sky have tried to shaft BT into a stupid bid, SKY had LL on the cheap for many years.
SKY will go all out on promoting the EPL, if they not annoyed everyone with it so far. |
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I mean BT have already bumped their prices and at £10 a month, it will be £20 a month soon when they add some womens netball and the odd ufc fight
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£10 !?!
so you would rather pay £60+ for something you can live without and call the £20 a waste. I reckon you have to have sky for other reasons. |
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when does this start next season?
Yes, this season being now or 2 weeks when it starts. The consumer is losing out no doubt about that. But there is now an option to watch a handful of EPL games, La Liga and Champions League, Europa League at a fraction of the cost if you drop Sky. Of course you'll miss out on the overrated EPL matches but they can be streamed easy enough these days. |
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So you are effectively saying that Sky are no more..
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So sky have pulled out of the bidding in protest and have effectively told La Liga that they don't need them
Yes Sky put a bid in with what they thought was a fair price. They were other bidders (BT) so La Liga took it to a second round. But Sky said sod that we ain't interested. So BT got it on the cheap. |
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The EPL has deteriorated relentlessly for about 10 years now with 8 out of 10 matches boring people to death.
Take the 3 games as follows: 1. Hull v Man Utd 2. Burnley v Spurs 3. Burnley v Man Utd That would be £33m forked out by Sky next season for 3 matches that had one shot at goal in the 3 matches combined!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The EPL pays World Class Wages for mediocre players such as Rooney, Di Maria, Costa, Sterling, Wilshire, Walcott ............ the list is never ending. The current Sky model will collapse soon as they have paid far too much for what is a pile of poo, lost the Champions League and soon to lose La Liga. Watching Ajax pass the ball about the half way line does not cut it with customers paying top dollar. The day will come when there is a stampede of subscribers cancelling and the whole model comes tumbling down along with the big clubs without rich owners. Hopefully that day is soon to end the obscene wages in the Moneyship. |
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Like i have signed any contract
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Only if you are stupid enough or made to keep sky.
I really dont get the point that it is more expensive, its like going to the shop for 1 mars bar but buying 2. BT new content rises are only just behind SKY's yearly rises. |
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Ok so once upon time SKY had everything and charged X amount
Then BT came along and everybody said HURRAY!! Great news for your average Joe! Cheaper prices etc.. Now sky costs X+5 and you get far less money BT charges £10 for the content you no longer get |
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Far less for your money*
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what bt bit you no longer get ?
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Dear God.
Sonko Sky used to have all the PL, La Liga and CL. Now BT has a small number of PL matches, all the CL and now La Liga it seems. So what you used to pay say £30 a month for on Sky now costs the current Sky subscription plus a BT subscription on top. It's not a difficult concept to understand honestly. |
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Im still confused i pay £15 for bt sports and zero for sky.
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I started with Full Sky Package then RUK then Premier Sports then BT came along. I have gone back to the first two and considering dropping Sky and listening to the football on 5 Live, but it's the cricket and RL that I would miss.
Sonko don't you have Sky Sports? Or how do you get it for nothing? |
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cancelled.
I just get this feeling that the punters on hear are sticking with sky because of their partners. |
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Surely they are sticking with it because next weekend they have 4 live games
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last season i watched far less football than usual as quite frankly it was boring me to tears...
apart from real madrid v barca, i very rarely watched a spanish game... the champions league is usually bollox until the last 8, so no real loss there either... im quite happy with just the prem games on a sunday really...and even some of them i dont bother with...plenty of other things to watch... i think maybe that over the last 20 years or so, my football watching on tv has reached its own saturation point... |
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apart from real madrid v barca, i very rarely watched a spanish game...
you miss out on some footballing sides who actually play a better brand than those 2....celta and villarreal for starters. |
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Ffs the only proper football sky had
 when the lose the NFL i will be getting rid!! |
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they could replace the lost channels with more babestation channels.
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