Did anybody catch "Game Changer: 20 Years Of The Premier League" on Radio 4 at 5 p.m.? I came into part of it and it sounded pretty damning of Sky and their deal with the F.A. to stitch up the League. (Over to you, Mussie...)
over to iplayer for me. i ve just seen that the yorkshire post has it covered. the hull daily mail are busy producing an exclusive on the catastrophe that awaits rugby fans next season with the onset of season cards!!!!!
www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/episode/b01lt2vj The 'Wimbledon-isation of our game' The '...disenfranchising of fans from what used to be their Club'. A great assessment of the Murdoch League, and some brilliant comments from football sage and ex-Man City fan, David Conn. Interesting programme though. Also ironic that Greg Dyke was the main culprit, who later tried to run Brentford against this runaway train. A great 38 minutes listening with a lot of stuff about its original inception which I wasnt aware of. Cheers Stan. Over to you Chazz!!
You mean the BBC produced a programme that was critical of the deal that gave Sky exclusive live coverage of top flight football in this country? Fancy that.
it was a good balanced programme to be fair. did you listen? it was also fairly critical of the old incumbent council tv football deal? in as much, a long standing accepted way of doing things. the main implication of the programme questioned the original aims of Murdoch/Greg Dyke League with respect to wider football finance and an improved Natonal team. as i paraphrased in this thread earlier, it asserted that English football is no longer a National game with home-grown winners in abundance. it simply a similar model to our 'National' tennis tournement, with worldwide involvement but little interest from our own participants. As they state: "English football has been 'Wimbledonised' by the monster that is the Premiership. David Conn, who doesnt work for Auntie, also made some hard hitting realisms about the future of football and his once favourite 'club', Manchester City.
I thought it'd appeal, Mussie. Haven't iPlayered it, but from what I heard, it's obvious that Dykes sold it via chairmen's greed, and that Sky (once they had outbid all for the TV coverage) outsmarted evrybody and took control.
thought i'd put this here as its about premiership football - a bit So Barcelona buy Song for £15million and the put a release clause of £63 million into his contract . What does this amount to ? Arsenal sold Song rather cheap or Barcelona try to give a false increased valuation of a player to their own fans . In effect is Song now worth £63 million Plus to Barcelona ?
Its getting to the point now where players are being bought for the wrong reasons. Song signs for bargain £15M. Barca agree to a % sell on clause with Arsenal. £63M release clause. Barca play him a few times. Then sell him to Man City in a couple of years - split the profit with Arsenal.
How does any of that even relate to that? I know you hate sky and the business side but come on...... Every player in Spain must have a release clause in their contract, they have to. So clubs put it at ridiculous levels, as none of them want it as a rule. Real Mallorca have two players release clauses's set at over 500 million does that mean all of a sudden there worth it? Course not its just what they have to have so they set it ridiculously high so that its never met. How does that really to business, money laundry and personal gain?
