SKY TV

[AjcW]

Why couldn't you speak before?

Oh I could I was just waiting for the bias against sky to stop

[Brainy]

Religious reasons.

[lildave3]

Oh I could I was just waiting for the bias against sky to stop

Grow a pair.

[Sir Fynwy]

I have Sky Sports & ESPN.

I like it.

I watched the match on TV and really struggle to reach the level of rage and anger being put into this thread.

Yes, the coverage was skewed but that just made it funny. They get bigger crowds, they have more expensive players, they have turmoil in the boardroom, they have professionals out of the game with a vested interest in the club, they scored an outstanding goal and have a ground which makes ours look like the little identikit stadium it is. The city is more vibrant, the countryside more stimulating and the history of failure more alluring.

It's not bias against Leicester, this slant on the match will be the same for all visiting teams this season apart from Middlesbrough. The coverage was a league above the shite offered up by ITV or the current Football League programme (the wonderful Mark Clemmit aside).

Sorry, but as I say - I like Sky Sports.

But you are so much of an armchair fan you even have a motorbike with an armchair!

[Father Ted]

Religious reasons.

Init.

[Daggers]

But you are so much of an armchair fan you even have a motorbike with an armchair!

[Budweiser]

Sky have ruined football.

[Basingstoke Fox]

Oh fooking brilliant, one of the main games that I have been waiting for and looking forward to for years has now fooked up as SKY have intervened for Reading away. Doing QPR was bad enough but to ruin 2 of the only games I will be able to go to takes the fooking piss. Not as many people will travel down now and it is going to be a shit atmosphere.

fook YOU SKY :@ :@ :@

[samjohnson]

Sky have ruined football.

Sooo true

[davieG]

Sky have ruined football.

Not really the Football authorities as in The FA, The Premier League and The Football League have done that. Sky didn't force them to accept the money and to agree to the date moves.

The conditions, that is the dates/KO times where the price the football authorities paid in order to get the big sums of money. That money has gone straight out of the game via players wages and club directors very little if any has gone to support the fans that actually attend games.

Whilst the players and directors shove ever more money into their fat wallets they're probably looking out of the window laughing as they watch all us suckered fans turning up and paying over the odds to watch the games and to make them more of a spectacle so they can get even more money off of Sky and co.

Considering how much money they fork out I'd say they were entitled to show the games as and when they want and on the whole do a damn fine job.

All this aggression and anger should be directed at those football authorities but as they don't give a hoot for us fans you'd be wasting your time.

[Budweiser]

Not really the Football authorities as in The FA, The Premier League and The Football League have done that. Sky didn't force them to accept the money and to agree to the date moves.

The conditions, that is the dates/KO times where the price the football authorities paid in order to get the big sums of money. That money has gone straight out of the game via players wages and club directors very little if any has gone to support the fans that actually attend games.

Whilst the players and directors shove ever more money into their fat wallets they're probably looking out of the window laughing as they watch all us suckered fans turning up and paying over the odds to watch the games and to make them more of a spectacle so they can get even more money off of Sky and co.

You win. Sky & co ruined football

[Tilley]

:laugh:

Makes me laugh how angry people get over Sky tv

I like it.

[Basingstoke Fox]

I don't care about bias or anything like that much to be honest. But it really can fook things up for some fans who can't go to many games for whatever reason. I can see DavieG's point though.

[Joe.]

I reckon the majority of those who moan at Sky probably a) Have it b) Watch games on it either at home/pub c) Would be disappointed if it no longer existed.

[CosbehFox]

Without sounding like some kind of super football fan, I was very tempted this Summer to subcribe after having enough money to pay for it but refused. Not just for Sky's ruin ing of Football but just not to give one of the world's powerful man in the world more money.

[AjcW]

I reckon the majority of those who moan at Sky probably a) Have it b) Watch games on it either at home/pub c) Would be disappointed if it no longer existed.

Damn you beat me too it.

[Shrenchel]

Waiting for someone else to say something for you so you don't have to change your username again is not being beaten to it.

Anyway it's bollocks in my personal experience. Me and my mates that properly dislike Sky contribute fook all towards it. Yeah of course we'll watch it in the pub sometimes but we always used to try go to one inchin it from foreign satellite before Sky got on top of that in court. Nowadays watch far more on the internet than I do in the boozer, once or twice a month I'll head to the pub to watch a game but if everyone did as little as that then the whole thing would collapse.

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Who's going to be the first to go on a hunger strike in order to get the commentators changed????

[jockkkk]

The commentators seem to have decided that as Newcastle are the biggest team in the league (and by biggest do I mean the least likely to have been relegated?) then they have to be hyped up for some reason. West Brom and Middlesborough have played better football and are better placed behind the scenes to have a smooth transition back to the PL.

Oh but let's be thankful that my most hated sycophant Andy Gray isn't commentating. Considering that his employers pretty much pay for the PL you'd think he'd have the balls to say something even slightly controversial.

[Brainy]

Waiting for someone else to say something for you so you don't have to change your username again is not being beaten to it.

[ozleicester]

I dont give a crap about the commentating, at least i got to see us play, so Sky..or Fox..or whoever, i dont care, you can have a drug affected Tasmanian riding a unicycle whilst assaulting a teddy bear commentate for all i care..just put LCFC on telly.

Anyway...dont listen to the commentary, put the TV on, sound down..and spend a couple of hours chatting to the delightful AOWW in live chat, what could be better?

[SOCCERROO FOX]

I dont give a crap about the commentating, at least i got to see us play, so Sky..or Fox..or whoever, i dont care, you can have a drug affected Tasmanian riding a unicycle whilst assaulting a teddy bear commentate for all i care..just put LCFC on telly.

Anyway...dont listen to the commentary, put the TV on, sound down..and spend a couple of hours chatting to the delightful AOWW in live chat, what could be better?

Chatting to me

[Guest]

I reckon the majority of those who moan at Sky probably a) Have it b) Watch games on it either at home/pub c) Would be disappointed if it no longer existed.

Damn you beat me too it.

Looks like I am in the minority then.

[renards]

Having seen so many people moan about commentary.

Did anyone actually make a complaint?

I went to Newcastle so didn't get to hear the commentary, but have often thought the commentary on games has been extremely biased when i've watched from a neutral point of view, especially Don Goodman.

yes

[Ford Super Sunday]

Looks like I am in the minority then.

You're not, I join you, but almost didn't

I had Sky for a month back in April, but because of a technical problem, which they were absolutely incompetent at solving, I cancelled, and screwed them for every penny I could (getting a £20 apology and then £46 from them because it was credit left in my Sky account, which wasn't at all true but I took it anyway)

But I was so, so thankful that I had that get out clause, because paying £36.50 per month for Sports was totally not worth it in hindsight, glad I got rid. It really wasn't worth it in the end. Granted, I got to see Arsenal-Liverpools 4-4, but there wasn't anything that said 'wow, 36.50 well spent there'

So I don't have Sky, I don't watch it at the pub, and the only thing i'd be sad to see go is Sky Sports News. Sky Sports can die a painful death for all I care. Then maybe some of the big premier league teams can try and cope without all that money, which maybe minescule in comparison to some of their earning, but is still crucial for teams like Man Utd who have a heft debt to pay.

But we all know Sky are probably here for our lifetimes and after. They now have football in the same place as Rugby League, PDC Darts, Speedway and Cricket, totally reliant on their cash for the sport to function properly. While people want it, they will pay for it, and people will continue to pay for it the more and more they hike the prices. Give it 10 years and it'll be £60 per month for the sports package.

We may get pissed off by Sky, but it ain't ever gonna change is it? if ESPN, Virgin, BBC, ITV, Five, any of those got the rights, they'd do the same thing, stick games on a Monday night, Friday night etc. without any consideration for the fans.

The best scenario for the football league is to give the contract back to BBC or ITV, let's go regional again with SOCCER SUNDAY, and let's do it like that, I may only have been in single figures in terms of ages during that era, but Soccer Sunday looked brilliant. When a game was moved to a Sunday lunch, it was local, i'm sure some of you remember going to WBA and Derby in the 95/96 season. Those WERE the days.