Fan Activism for charity thread. Tottenham Versus Brighton Nov 1st pay per view.

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will you pay the PPV charge

  • yes

    Votes: 19 17.3%

  • no (inc streamers)

    Votes: 91 82.7%
  • Total voters
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Under normal circumstances I would quite happily paid for 2 good tickets for my wife and I, 2 rail tickets, 2 pub meals and drinks in pub and at ground and taxi from station home. But even if they reduce the PPV to £1 I will not on principle pay it. I pay enough to Sky & Bt and will not give them any more.
I do hope others will boycott PPV as well.
 
I’m all for giving to charity but in this instance it’s the thieving, greedy cunts at Sky and BT who should be doing it, not members of the public in this difficult period.

Thankfully, good quality streams are easy to come by and are always linked on here so no one should miss out.
 
Matt1882 said:
Personally, I'd love all our games to go PPV.
I'd cancel Sky Sports and BT sport immediately and just pay for the games I can't get to.
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that's not really the point though mate, people can't physically go to the games right now so they should have left it so that everyone could watch their club for free during Covid.
People are struggling right now, it's the timing which is the issue.
Imagine you've just been made redundant due to Covid (I know 3 people that have) and now your being asked to stump up £15 if you want to watch your club.

It's a piss take, just indicative of the greed of the game, and anyone that knows me on here knows I'm pro Capitalism anti-Socialism in a big way, but this is just super predatory Capitalism at its worst.
 
Matt1882 said:
Personally, I'd love all our games to go PPV.
I'd cancel Sky Sports and BT sport immediately and just pay for the games I can't get to.
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So for those who can't get to many games if they wanted to watch all of the PL games they would be looking at £570 , i wouldn't be opposed to PPV games if it was a reasonable and affordable price say £4.95 per game, Live football has already priced out the majority of Fans as they dont have the luxury of being able to spunk over a grand on a season ticket each season and can only get there fix from televised games, what we are suggesting now is that those less well off fans won't even be able to afford to watch games live on TV (legally) and will have to make do with the radio and MOTD?
Again its not about those who can afford it, its about collectively making a stand against the greed that is football these days, and if the PPV trial is a failure it will be discontinued, if its successful you may well get your wish in a few seasons where you can watch every game for £15, unfortunately there are some fans who cant afford that, and i'm on there side on this one.
 
I've donated the 15 quid plus the 10 voucher money to CALM which is my charity of choice through amazon smile. (In case anyone didn't know, if you do your amazon shopping through smile.amazon.co.uk , they make a donation to your chosen charity everytime you buy something)
 
Spurs_Bob said:
The Premier League voted to allow PPV in light of the current Covid-19 virus

- in order to generate a contribution towards the financial impact of each club's losses through gate receipts
- to give match going fans the option of still being able to view their team's games live

The only games that are available via PPV are games that were not scheduled to be televised by football broadcasters in the United Kingdom

Said games, under normal circumstances, are only viewable live via a match day ticket in the United Kingdom

The 20 clubs came to the interim decision after a recent meeting in order to "enable all fans to continue to watch their teams live"
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you make it sound like the PL clubs are doing the fans a favour? They just sat together and come up with a way to milk more cash out of fans, and be under no illusion if this turns out to be successful it will be the new normal in a few years time, and any CAT A games, IE spurs vs woolwich will only be available on PPV. I agree clubs might be struggling with gate receipts, maybe now they will realise that without fans football is nothing.
 
paddygspur said:
Thinke we should choose a suitable charity to bung our £15 at instead

One of tottenhams charity patners who do a fantastic job

Homepage - Noah’s Ark Children's Hospice

At Noah's Ark Children's Hospice we help families make every precious moment count.
www.noahsarkhospice.org.uk www.noahsarkhospice.org.uk
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Cool idea. It's a fuck you to outrageous greed with an additional layer of altruism and whatever the opposite of hypocrisy is.

Anyway, I won't ever be paying that bullshit. The business of football has been bleeding fans dry for too damn long now. It must be nice to have job security with your multimillion pound salary..
 
Mandy said:
To the nearest £1k the totals raised by each club's drive so far are as follows:

Spurs - £77k
Leeds - £22k
Man Utd & Man City - £25k
Burnley - £24k
Newcastle - £22k
Wolves - £2k
West Ham - £2k
Everton & Liverpool - £8k
Southampton - £1k
Sheffield United - £2k
Fulham - £2k

The follow clubs supporters are donating direct to their chosen charities so there is no running total of donation amount, but they do all have their own campaigns running:

Chelsea
Aston Villa
West Brom
Crystal Palace
Leicester City
Woolwich
Brighton

So as it stands at the moment over £185k has been raise for charities plus however much has been donated directly. Most clubs are donating to their local food banks except Sheffield who are donating to a hospice charity, Leicester to The Vichai Srivadfhanaprabha Foundation and Fulham who are donating to CALM.
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Pretty pathetic showing from Liverpool fans.

One of the most widely supported clubs in the UK and they can only muster £8k jointly with Everton.

YNWA is nothing but a song
 
Rocket said:
Ours or generally?
I heard there was a rumour that one in particular (don't know which) garnered less than 1,000 purchases.
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There were rumours last week that the Burnley West Brom game had less than 100 subscribers.
 
No more PPV after this weekend

The Premier League are likely to scrap the controversial pay-per-view system after this weekend’s games, report Amitai Winehouse and Luke Brown. The model — whereby fans are charged £14.95 to watch a single game — has come under serious criticism from fans’ groups, clubs and the government since it was introduced in October.

Who will show the games instead?​

All of the Premier League’s games will still be broadcast in the United Kingdom, as they have been since the division returned following the initial pause due to the pandemic.

The rights are likely to go to the Premier League’s existing broadcast partners instead, which means they will be shown on Sky Sports, BT Sport and Amazon Prime Video.

What did they discuss in relation to PPV?​

The Premier League discussed the £14.95 price point and the nature of the PPV model itself, and word from the meeting suggests that they are likely to scrap the model for a period.

What did fans think of PPV matches?​

The PPV model was unsurprisingly deeply unpopular with supporters.

It was reported that the first nine matches under the controversial broadcast model averaged 39,000 domestic PPV buys.

However, supporters’ groups campaigned against PPV matches and instead pledged to donate their money to charity. And last month, The Athletic revealed that fan groups had warned the Premier League that protests against the PPV scheme would not end even if the £14.95 fee was lowered.

What else was discussed at today’s meeting?​

As well as PPV matches, Premier League clubs also discussed the financial impact of a second COVID-19 lockdown, the need for vigilance on matchday protocols, post-Brexit access to overseas players and a potential bailout for EFL clubs.

The Athletic understands, however, that no hard decisions were made any of these issues.
 
Matt1882 said:
Every home game I don't go to is saving me £65 at the moment.
In the current situation they should have the same number of televised games they normally would + fill the gaps in (not all games are televised normally) with PPV
It's amazing how quickly people have become accustomed to getting every game televised and forgotten how often games used to kick off at 3pm on a Saturday and no TV coverage.

If at any point all games go PPV I'll be binning the subscription to sports channels.
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The thing is if they see PPV as being successful being the greedy cunts they are at Sky and BT they will make it the norm, and slowly more games will be on PPV , if this happens we will soon be in a situation where all games are PPV, what happens then to those who like to watch all the games on a super Sunday? It would cost £45 for the 3 games, add in your Fix on a saturday afternoon and you have £60 a week just to watch 4 games.
 
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