Football Association vs Sky

Since the inception of the Premier League we’ve seen football evolve in this country. At first it was an exciting venture and a quite competitive league, the coverage by Sky was excellent and you generally got a good sense of the atmosphere, the passion, the excitement. But now football is in danger of losing its most important asset – the fans. A large part of this is due to the revenue generated by the TV deal the premier league has with Sky Television. It’s now a case of what Sky wants to do to fill it’s schedule, there doesn’t appear to be much though given to the fans and the FA seem quite happy to sit back and not do anything. My team Norwich City ...  Read the complete review

For those who read my first review - so sorry about that. Put it under the wrong heading. I am currently doing a study at Southampton University about the influence of Sky television on the English football leagues. Basically what I have found is that Sky television has so much power over the game now that it can make or break any team that it chooses to. After all, Sky has complete rights to the media coverage of the games played, the rights to every Premier league match. In the modern world, the FA seems a token body. What power has it really got? It can organise matches and determine what day they are laplyed on. Hang on- then Sky can come in ...  Read the complete review

The idea of getting 2300 professional footballer to X mark the spot doesn’t sound to tricky, plenty of them sigh their greedy big money contracts with the Roman numeral. It would be really intriguing to find out who the twenty are that didn’t go with the yes vote for the ridiculous strike. I suspect a few of the Ipswich Town lads were bullied into a no vote by the Football league and the clubs chairman in David Sheepshanks.He proudly announced a couple of weeks ago that he had “talked his players round” in to rights and wrongs of the vote. Shame he cant bully them onto playing football in the Premiership!. The unprecedented yes ...  Read the complete review

We not want to think about it,but we are heading for a players strike in the depths of the gray winter when we need it the most. All live English league games are going to be boycotted by the players in pursuit of a bigger cut of that TV revenue. All players join the union paying seventy pounds a year membership. The top three percent go onto make big bucks and often become millionaires. But that ratio is dropping every year with more and more mercenary foreigners flooding the game on short-term contracts. They are irrelevant as far as unions go and supporting young players who don’t make the grade are not what our imports are about. The loss ...  Read the complete review

i hate thefact that the fat cats are getting fatter and fans POORER - Advantages: none, none, none - Disadvantages: cost, sunday games, early time kick offs