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[Pedro de la Rosa]

I was listening to radio conversation on this on the way home from last night's match where someone was saying that his young son had not played a single game since November because his team were finding it impossible to get a pitch in a good enough condition to play on and Chris Waddle chipped in to say that he is involved with a Sunday League team that has to pay £180 per game for the pitch they use - in a game as awash with money as British football is (in some areas at least) that is a disgraceful situation which completely mirrors a society where the gap between the very rich and the poorest grows every year.

That isn't a one off either, the team I pay for are lucky enough to have a long standing arrangement with a school but one the odd occasion we've had to hire a council pitch and it was about £150-200; with a portakabin as a changing room.

[Llanedeyrnblue]

I thought Amazon and Netflix were bidding? They must have offered peanuts

[Fine Lines]

I thought Amazon and Netflix were bidding? They must have offered peanuts

im surprised they weren't more heavily involved in the bidding.

The gate receipts are now such a small percentage of club revenue, it baffles me why you can't subscribe to a "season ticket" to watch your clubs games online regardless of kick off time. The technology exists. Its already possible via iFollow if abroad. If you open it up to online, reduce the price of match tickets.

[Badly Ironed Shirt]

im surprised they weren't more heavily involved in the bidding.

The gate receipts are now such a small percentage of club revenue, it baffles me why you can't subscribe to a "season ticket" to watch your clubs games online regardless of kick off time. The technology exists. Its already possible via iFollow if abroad. If you open it up to online, reduce the price of match tickets.

That's where we are heading. The interesting thing is that one of the packages yet to be sold is for 20 midweek games. Those 20 games will happen over 2 rounds! This package will, I think, go to an online streaming company like Amazon and is an early experiment of having every EPL game available on "TV".

Sorry the other package is the same - one round of midweek games and one of bank holiday fixtures.

[blue matt]

im surprised they weren't more heavily involved in the bidding.

The gate receipts are now such a small percentage of club revenue, it baffles me why you can't subscribe to a "season ticket" to watch your clubs games online regardless of kick off time. The technology exists. Its already possible via iFollow if abroad. If you open it up to online, reduce the price of match tickets.

For me it isnt about gate receipts, its about the atmosphere of the game, if we allow a " streamed ST " then the fickle fans will not bother to go and see a game as CCS, they will sit at home in the warm, we have enough " fans " who do not go to anything other than the big games, we do not need to encourage anymore , I know its rich coming from me as i know i do not get to every game, but real life often gets in the way, If i am free, i get to the game