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My only real experience of a Friday night game was Cardiff back in the Championship. Back then though I was a third-year student so probably didn't get out of bed until mid-afternoon.

 

Now I couldn't think of anything much worse than finishing a grueling 40 hour week at work then immediately having to drag myself to watch Mike Williamson for 90 minutes.

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When does the bubble burst then?  Surely we'll reach a point where the broadcasters are paying so much money it's no longer profitable.

 

The whole thing's smoke and mirrors now like, a very cleverly marketed sham.

 

Maybe it's because I support a hollow shell of a football club but I see very little entertainment value in this Premier League compared to ten or fifteen years ago. Even most of the good teams are so fucking boring, and the rubbish ones are absolutely appalling.

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My only real experience of a Friday night game was Cardiff back in the Championship.

 

5-1 wasnt it? Took wor lasses uncle from London to it, his first ever footy game, 60 odd years old, he loved it and now keeps asking me to take him to another game... urgh no :(

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My only real experience of a Friday night game was Cardiff back in the Championship.

 

5-1 wasnt it? Took wor lasses uncle from London to it, his first ever footy game, 60 odd years old, he loved it and now keeps asking me to take him to another game... urgh no :(

 

Aye. Battered them. Their fans just got pissed en-masse beforehand and started chucking a few coins and lighters down as the goals went in. Acted like absolute arseholes around the town afterwards.

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

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My only real experience of a Friday night game was Cardiff back in the Championship.

 

5-1 wasnt it? Took wor lasses uncle from London to it, his first ever footy game, 60 odd years old, he loved it and now keeps asking me to take him to another game... urgh no :(

 

Aye. Battered them. Their fans just got p*ssed en-masse beforehand and started chucking a few coins and lighters down as the goals went in. Acted like absolute arseholes around the town afterwards.

 

Aye before the match as well, loads around china town acting right nobs as we had something to eat there beforehand. Was a totally dominant performance IIRC. Happy days in the championship. Loved that season, that team and Chrissy Hughton  :smitten:

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

 

Burnley will bring in more revenue this year than Ajax I read earlier.

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

 

Burnley will bring in more revenue this year than Ajax I read earlier.

 

By 2016 the lowest placed Premier League team will probably bring in more than double what our top teams bring in. It's disgusting.

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

 

What's with the 20 year duration? Seems illogical from the leagues financial standpoint.

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

 

What's with the 20 year duration? Seems illogical from the leagues financial standpoint.

 

No idea. Deal is with Fox Sports and was a huge upgrade on the previous deal. Safe to assume they couldn't get any better though.

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

 

What's with the 20 year duration? Seems illogical from the leagues financial standpoint.

 

No idea. Deal is with Fox Sports and was a huge upgrade on the previous deal. Safe to assume they couldn't get any better though.

 

It's a massive deal, but I still think over 20 years they could've gotten a lot more if they'd sold in 4/5 year packages and then re-negotioate rather than the next 20 in one.

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It's going to get to the point with this deal that even the Champions League money isn't worth going for. The league will be as it is forever. No incentive for clubs like us, Everton, Villa, etc to even try because they're rich regardless. Sickening.

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That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe.

 

Luckily most English clubs are incredibly wasteful with said money otherwise it would get very ugly very quickly.

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The end of football as folk knew it. Shame. Still at least shit players and directors will coin it more than ever.

 

Cements everyone bar 4 clubs now being effectively feeder clubs for big English teams too.

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Aye he's never going. The figure is going to increase to at least £8bn by the time the foreign rights are sold. Next time I think it may break the £10bn mark for domestic games.

 

Is there any word on the highlights package?

 

 

I think this should be used to let fans in for next to nothing since the income from match day is already irrelevant.

bbc got the highlights a week or two ago

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The end of football as folk knew it. Shame. Still at least shit players and directors will coin it more than ever.

 

Cements everyone bar 4 clubs now being effectively feeder clubs for big English teams too.

 

Yup which is crazy.

 

If we were run properly we'd actually have the prospect of looking forward to seeing really good players play for us but with Ashley it's hopeless, literally more money for him and nothing else.

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The end of football as folk knew it. Shame. Still at least s*** players and directors will coin it more than ever.

 

Cements everyone bar 4 clubs now being effectively feeder clubs for big English teams too.

 

Even before this deal, a club like St Etienne becoming Man City's feeder club. But we see poor/average clubs currently signing players from big European clubs, this is going to get worse. It's horrible.

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