Yes or no? Depending on how old you are will dictate your answer! My answer is yes, the actual playing of football comes way down the list of priorities merchandise,money,tv,agents,wages,advertising seem to be far more important....thoughts
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WoolwichYes. The negatives far outweigh the positives.
Expensive TV subscriptions
Meaning the big clubs are protected financially to preserve the ratings
Match day tickets are expensive
Footballers salaries in the top flight are obscene. I don't blame the players but their is something wrong with society where we can pay someone that amount of money while the NHS can't afford cancer battling drugs
Most football pundits and analysts are absolute morons
Games get moved about to suit the TV powers with no regards to supporters
Players cheating
Commentators afraid to challenge the cheating
Matches being hyped up beyond all proportion
Lazy young English players being paid too much when they have achieved nothing
The national team suffering as a result
Football pundits moaning at the national team but then getting back into the world's most exciting league every August
The devaluing of the FA cup
Pop stars muscling in on the game purely for their own benefit
Advertising betting companies
Corrupt FIFA awarding world cups to countries with atrocious human rights records where the summer temperature is over 40 degrees
The gentrification of football stadiums
Mk Dons
Wembley stadium and it's sucking up to everything corporate
Can the current financial clout of football be sustained?....
I believe the English domestic market, BT Sky and then secondary ITV and BBC are maxed out. Both Sky and BT are loosing viewers not gaining them, there is no way they will pay more for broadcast rights next time come to renew. However, these potential losses could feasibly be made up and surpassed by improved international broadcast rights of the PL, namely US and China the PL audience is still growing in these areas and as long as that continues then so will the money.Premier League clubs heading for financial ruin says new report
I don't know whether the authors of the quoted report have any interests or are completely neutral, but surely, SURELY there's a ceiling on the amount of money available to football?
I believe the English domestic market, BT Sky and then secondary ITV and BBC are maxed out. Both Sky and BT are loosing viewers not gaining them, there is no way they will pay more for broadcast rights next time come to renew. However, these potential losses could feasibly be made up and surpassed by improved international broadcast rights of the PL, namely US and China the PL audience is still growing in these areas and as long as that continues then so will the money.
Good time to build a stadium though, the Sky/BT deal runs for 3yrs, first year was last year, so two more years to run. Plus we have in a most un-Spursy way coincided to get into CL!
Yes or no? Depending on how old you are will dictate your answer! My answer is yes, the actual playing of football comes way down the list of priorities merchandise,money,tv,agents,wages,advertising seem to be far more important....thoughts
Can the current financial clout of football be sustained? If all supporters refused to pay the subscriptions then surely the money would dry up?