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How can someone justify the cost - e.g a regular football fan watches a couple of games on the weekend and the odd Champions League or cup game when that's on.
Sky Sports - £27.50
BT Sport - £22.99
= £50.49 per month to watch around 10-12 live football matches. That's £605 per year to watch 120-144 matches. Around a quarter where you will be at the pub or similar anyway.
No thank you. 👍🏻
The issue is that people happily pay it, you hear people saying, i could spend £500 on a season ticket to watch 23 matches a season or i could pay £600 and watch 150, and that would be the top matches around Europe.
People in this country consume football on TV, they pay a premium for it, and SKY and BT then pay forever increasing sums, for coverage.
People complain that fans who attend are treated badly, however we created a system where the person at home paying his subscription is more important than the fan that attends. We are getting the treatment that football fans in the UK demand.
How much does it cost to watch Cardiff over 46 games a season? I remember paying a total of £200 to watch the semi final and final of the FA Cup at Wembley. If I had my two kids at the time, it would have cost me about £500 in tickets alone (not to mention being forced to get a season ticket early).
A dad and his two sons getting to watch 2 games every weekend for £7 a week ? Show me a top level club that offers anything better than that deal.
Yes, you can watch it in the pub- that would be fantastic because too many pubs are closing down.
Last edited by Kris; 15-03-17 at 15:15.
Actually both Liverpool and Hull offer adult tickets for selected games from £9. There is no comparison with watching a football match at the ground and from the sofa. The price of football in this country is wrecked, but to justify £50 a month to watch a few football games on the tele is excessive (if you are the average working man that is).
I agree, nothing beats being in the stadium. But, attending is very expensive especially with kids. An average working man can pay 40 quid to watch a Championship game with his kids. One game. Or, for £50 he can access a match most nights from the English leagues, Spanish Leagues, German leagues, World Cup etc.
You're asking how can BT and Sky justify charging £22 and £28 a month. How can Ipswich justify charging £30 for a single ticket?
My biggest issue with these Kodi boxes is that if we all did it then there would be nothing to illegally stream. With films for example, if law abiding citizzens didn't pay to watch films on tv or in the cinema then people wouldn't be making films. So it's all well and good for a minority of people using these boxes to say the production companies are still making millions but why should some people get to enjoy these things free of charge while others are funding the prouction of them in the first place?
Some games that you would otherwise have to pay for are shown free on German free-to-air satellite channels.
Just wang up a satellite dish, buy a cheap receiver and Bob's your uncle.
Another way I look at it, if you were in a shop would you walk out with some items without paying for them? If not, but you saw some other people doing it, would you then do it? If not, why do you do it with TV? Is it because you're at home, and you've somehow justified theft because there isn't a physical product, or that the product is being stolen from the comfort of your armchair.
If that is the reason, would you fiddle your gas/electric meters? Why is it ok to steal TV, but not ok to steal electric, gas, or water?
shit analogy! It's not stealing, if i take something from a shop it isn't there anymore. However sharing a movie its still available, nobody is missing out. And if revenue streams start to dry up as people stop going to the cinema then these chancers might start thinking about making something good rather than the continuous garbage they put out just for the sake of it to rip people off and make vast amounts of money in the process!
Last edited by OurManFlint II; 16-03-17 at 08:41.
Not really as those that watch football or movies would not buy the product, so there was no market originally. Plus that arguments doesn't stand up as movie, music and football are turning record profits year on year despite the ease in which you can watch, and cinema visiting figures have been on the rise since the 80's.
Really. Like people who make a claim on their car insurance for whiplash injury has no effect on me? You can justify it to yourself maybe but it's still stealing my friend. Just like taking a few envelopes or a pen from your place of work. But everybody does it.... so what?
Do you honestly believe Sky would lower their prices if everyone who streamed suddenly joined Sky and got sports?
It would just justify what they are charging and they would probably hike their prices to see how far they could milk it. The Premier League would then want more money and garbage footballers would get another couple of mill on their already obscene wages.
Does anyone still religiously watch football on the telly? I binned Sky years ago because I didn't watch every game and couldn't justify it, I don't miss it at all, had the Chelsea/Man U game on the other night but didn't give it my undivided attention. I don't feel I'm missing out at all, perhaps it's an age thing where we were only used to the odd game every now and then. Watch the City home & away is enough for me, more than enough sometimes!