Not only Preston match moving to the Sunday at the start of November, now the Cardiff and Wednesday games later that month are 12.30 kick offs, are they all for TV purposes? What makes us so popular
As I mentioned on the other forum, it's always Pay TV first and fans last now. The football most of us remember growing up watching has been overtaken by commercialism and paranoia. Players drinking in local pubs? They're all hiding behind their security fences nowadays, only venturing out in their bullet proof Bentleys. And the genuine community spirit of supporting your hometown Club has been replaced with rip-off ticket prices, fakery and insincerity from the PR departments of football Clubs and supposed 'partners' of football like Barclaycard (utter w*nkers) and the endless repetition that you can only enjoy a game if you've got twenty bets placed on it. Match of the Day and the Big Match were good enough for decades gone by. And are we more entertained now we have 500 channels to watch? OK, maybe just a bit.
Back on topic... There is absolutely zero consideration or respect shown to away fans with these changes. How many would we take up to the Massives for a 12.30 kick off live on TV ?
Sky don't care. Like the money men who run the Premier League, Sky think they invented football. It used to be just a running bad joke that football in this country simply didn't exist before 1992, so completely is that era (well over a century) ignored by Sky and the EPL. Now it isn't even a joke at all. A generation of armchair football fans raised on Sky have no knowledge of, or interest in, the glorious history of our national sport. Some of them (and not just the ones watching from abroad) don't even seem to know there are such things as lower leagues. 3 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon holds no meaning to them at all.
Thing is lardi quite a few of us are part of the problem. I've sky tv and although I don't want our games changed from 3pm on a saturday I'm happy to watch premiership teams play at all hours.
I take your point. And I watch some football (mostly Prem or Championship) at other times as well on Sky. But if it was not available to watch I can't say I would miss it that much. Watching football on TV isn't something I'm addicted to. Sometimes when I'm just not in the mood to watch football on telly I'll go for long periods without bothering to tune in to a game. I think too (though it's an obvious thought) that I and many of us would cherish our trips to actually watch our team on a Saturday more if there was only the occasional game televised, or just MOTD, like there used to be for so many years. And younger fans would be attracted much more too. I know that kind of world won't ever come back - unless maybe there's a global depression worse than the 1930's. But I still have regrets that it's gone. Guess I'm just a bitter old bugger.
