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Don't think this is hugely relevant. This is a factor of the Europa league being downplayed to fuck by everyone in involved, so no fans really gives a shit about going to the games in the first place. The early rounds of the tournament are just treated as a total after thought and the fans have reacted accordingly. I don't see this as being hugely comparable to bread and butter games in the league. Surely the more relevant stat would be how attendances at televised premier league games have been affected. But somehow removing the # of season ticket holders.

This is a mid night wake up message, so I'm going back to sleep to leave you to fight alone. But ultimately there is little point in arguing. You're fighting against the magical element of tradition. Its immune to criticism because people love to pretend its still 1996. No solution will work unless its exactly how it is now. No comparisons or stats can be used when tradition is in play. Plus, they're all good being nearby, and anyone outside of the city isnt relevant. Newcastle for newcastlians. People have already admitting they could go see any 3pm premiership game because of worldwide streams, and yet haven't mentioned the fact the pyramid has not crumbled because of it. Only a matter of time before more games are available anyway. Whether it's 3pm premier league games being streamed in England or lower league games being available through club websites or something.

Even in Sweden, every second division game is on TV these days. It's pathetic they aren't even being filmed with more than one camera. How do Swedish teams in the 2nd division manage to get a crowd when the games are on TV? * Don't answer affordable ticket prices. Obviously crowds aren't great, don't know what the average would be mind. Not strange considering the level would be around league 2 at best. You need to be a real fan of the team to bother with it, with how bad the quality is. Don't think championship crowds would suffer much from being televised. Are there really any evidence from around the world with crowds going down because of TV? It's incredibly shortsighted as it seems to only think about the people in the general vicinity who attend matches, not the fans all over the country and world who would like to see their football club play. I just hate that Sky is sat there recording every single match and cutting in to show goals live, so technically they are just creeping about with the feed. God, how awful. It's got very little to do with that anyway. It's to do with protecting the quite extraordinary depth within the English football pyramid. It's to try and prevent, for example, the huge amount of clubs in the Greater Manchester area from haemorrhaging new fans because the kids want to stay at home and watch Man City on the telly, and judging by the amount of people watching third and fourth tier football (and below) in England and Scotland at 3pm on Saturdays, it works extremely well in doing so. "No soul in football", you're so wrong it's frightening. The soul remains at the games that the blackout is there to protect. But this is just standard scaremongering, despite the fact there'd be many solutions that didn't actually involve the death of the football pyramid. You act like it's black and white, rather than there being plenty of grey options that could well benefit teams from all necks of the wood.

You could just... y'know, not watch every game that's on TV?

I mean, some beers are just not good. i.e. there's a beer of the exact same type that is just made better, doesn't have the same off flavours etc.

Well done, they're 8.

Love Sunderland me. Nice little town. Much better than Pisscastle.

Good for you guys. Make it so no locals can view it without attending the game. Easy. Now make it available online for everyone else, given it'd be a monumental piece of piss to do so.

Unless she's got cold hard stats on viewership for MOTD/BAKE then I think she's just assumed a whole fuckton of genders right now.

he's got a book out next week, he's just doing a bit of PR, got to make himself relevant again

Is that a different person to Lee Marshall then?

i am sackpardew

bit fucking weird this is like

Because they're bellends

Suarez's (first) finish

That sounds just like beavers mate. Solid simile.

mitro gol

be class if there was any video evidence of this game

CSQUARED

JONJO TRIES A BENDER

streamer man is playing this shite for those fortunate enough not to have to rely on dodgy streams

why is this radio streamer man doing this to me

jsquared cant be stopped

then we sack Rafa

Showed his rapidness at one point, which was impressive. Otherwise meh.