bobloblaw

So you didn't know what it was, and just googled it and regurgitated the first result. It is an extension of the Great Man Theory. That theory has been eschewed for over 100 years. Evidence: First google result is this - https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/bad-man-theory/ EDIT: It is interesting that you would support that interpretation, instead of the "history from below" interpretation.

Write a book and peddle it on facebook. You'll be worth more than the pet rock guy in a couple of weeks. Just need need to superimpose it over a girl in leggings doing squats.

Well not too distant future, but like I said, just win and make it all irrelevant.

On the final match day if the following is true, then finishing 1pt above the team currently in 18th won't matter. A 17th - 17pts B 18th - 13pts C 19th - 11pts D 20th - 10pts Teams ABD lose, team C wins. BCD still get relegated, even though they passed the team in 18th by a point on the final day. Being in the relegation zone, you need to win enough to drag another team into the bottom three to escape. Of course, just win some games, starting with Everton, so nobody has to talk about this tiresome stuff.

He's saying that in the current position, to gain safety you will need to overtake the team in 17th place, which is not the same as gaining 1 point more than the team in 18th place, because that won't necessarily put you in 17th. It will just rearrange the deck chairs of the teams in relegation.

Maybe we just need to W A I T for it.

25% revenue sharing for club sponsorship deals.

Interesting read, thanks. This had me laughing though "The elite teams of western Europe are stocked with stars drawn from Africa, South America and all points in between. "Are there many stars from the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific oceans?

Read through it twice and was trying to figure out if I made some crazy statement pages ago

Not sure why you quoted me.

Was trying to be generous

This reads like someone quoted a terrible vacation guide book. Edit: this might be partially true, with games being shown in the AM before college football (saturday) and NFL (sunday) games.

I have to come back to this. If someone told Bills fans they had to spend $100 a month to watch their local team, Roger Goodell would be getting powerbombed through a folding table.

Probably that, and more ad revenue. Companies will pay more to advertise here. Part of the reason the tampa bay rays are worth 3x as much as NUFC. Something that is getting lost in all of this is that selling targeted ads on a streaming service are worth more than generic ads on a larger broadcast. Also, the teams would be able to monetize the data they get from a team owned streaming service. That is where the big money would come.

Sure but it is easily worth it for the bigger clubs if they get to recoup all the revenue from it. There are colleges in the US with their own networks (Texas).

Meant on tv, and holy shit at the bolded. You guys are getting taken for a ride.

It is pretty easy, the reason they haven't is that they (I assume) don't control their broadcast rights for PL games. NESN and YES are huge money makers for the red sox and yankees, and they were allowed to create those channels because of the way MLB broadcast rights were handled.

Biggest reason I haven't bought it. I'm a red sox fan, and every game against the cubs, white sox, brewers, twins, royals, and cards are blacked out for my region, even though we only get the white sox games locally.

Since I don't live over there, how much would it cost a local NUFC fan to watch every game live? I mean I can watch every Packers game live on Hulu, without paying anything extra.

I think the reason for that is that producing the games is easy, but producing other content, and generating revenue from it, is more difficult. You could see that in the US with the first few years of the Big Ten Network.

Just another way for the bigger clubs to get a larger cut. I'd assume teams would get some cut of the revenues from the PPV for their games, and their games will get the most buys. Over the course of a season Liverpool games will get more buys than Fullham games, and so Liverpool would get more PPV revenue than Fullham.

Ah, that makes sense. I was just confused by the state and cities part. Thought you might be implying it was run by local and state governments, which is what confused me. Something to keep in mind when making comparisons with US sports models is that the US is the size of your continent, so we are naturally going to be more decentralized.

I was wondering that too... do they just mean streaming?

I'm confused about what you mean by the bolded. Are you talking about team owned channels like NESN/YES, or regional stations like FSN, or what? The biggest issue with the league passes like MLBtv is all the game blackouts.

That would be Penn. Guess he just posted the information on the wrong forum all along Being wrong doesn't sound like him It's crazy to me that a team like the Red Sox, in a sport that commentators here constantly claim is dying, is still probably more valuable than the bottom 12 premier league teams combined. EDIT: I'm a red sox fan, but they are only the 3rd most valuable MLB team at best.