http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/anger-...m-sky-sports/story-29784173-detail/story.html No great shock tbh, Sky keep giving to the Premirer League rejects. This why I stopped buying Sky Sports before I left the England.
We'll just carry on our business under the radar, we all knew sky would have a love in with Villa and Newcastle on tele
Quite agree- Stopped Sky when I moved house 12 years ago. Handy that we can watch away games, ie Cardiff, but I will be there for the Brighton game anyway. As said earlier, want to watch the game, buy a ticket-
But those life-long City supporters who now live abroad, or in a different part of the country for various reasons can get to see their team occasionally when its shown live on the tele.. Well, lucky old you for being able to watch it live at 3pm on a Saturday
Fair point. Overlooked that. I live in Devon and can't always get to home midweek matches.I would love to live on a Greek island but football and the grandkids are two of the things I would miss most. Where sky winds me up. I have a life long Arsenal fan that I used to work with. Yet he has never seen them live.Guess that's why Newcastle,Villa and Norwich have priority.
My old dad was an Arsenal supporter. He grew up at the top of Highbury Hill, played for Islington schoolboys, didn't miss a home match right through their '30s glory days, won a packet on their double win of 1971, and was Arsenal through and through. Then he moved to Weston, had a son, and we grew together watching Bristol City. I will never forget the look of the thrill he got from watching Donny Gillies prod Leeds Utd out of the cup, nor the incredulity and delight at seeing City beat his precious Arsenal in '76. He still retained a big soft spot for The Gunners, but Bristol City had become his team and we became a team watching our own glory days through the 70s. In some cases, a leopard can change its spots. But to fully understand a club's ethos one has to experience the area, so its really not enough to just become a supporter by proxy through Match of the Day.
I feel a bit of a hypocrite here, but I totally agree nothing compares to being actually there in person. I have not been to as many games as I would have liked for a variety of different reasons over the past 20 years : work, money, kids etc, but I am now approaching a period in my life where all my kids have gone through uni and no longer rely on the bank of mum and dad, so a new day is about to dawn. Me and mrs R&W are planning on getting season tickets next season once again (if of course they don't sell out!) but in the meantime I go when I can and watch on Sky when I can't.
2007/08 season City played away at Stoke for what could have been one of the biggest games in Citys history. The game was moved to a sunday at 4-5pm. The thousands that should have been there for one of Citys biggest games in history stayed away. Stoke won 2-0 the rest is history. Games on sky are shafting fans. £30 plus to get in ton plus train fares no subsidised travel with the £££'s being made. As the handful of City once sang at an away game on sky. Sky sky leave the game alone, fans should not have to stay at home, with no fans, you have not a got a game, football is played at 3pm.
Totally agree however, with the amount of money that is put into football by TV companies, I can understand that by all kicking off at 3pm doesn't maximise coverage. Friend of mine is a Villa fan. Has a season ticket and travels from Devon, like me to home games. When they were in the Prem, he used to say that planning was a nightmare. Kick off times weren't certain until about a month before. He used to tell me that when the game was switched to a Monday night at 8pm, he had to miss it as by the time he would have got home and then to get up for work at 5am, just didn't make it practical. Most of our games are at 3pm on Saturday, something we may take for granted a bit. When was the last time Man U kicked off at 3pm Saturday. Its not very often.
Went to see what the link was ..(rare I go on EP site as it puts my computer into overdrive, cooling fans get all excited trying to process so many adverts), and my virus programme comes up with "exit immediately dangerous website" but got the jist .... .from the odd words that appeared, sky giving short shrift to BCFC ...
I agree, but after living in Swindon for nearly 20 years I still can't bring myself to support Swindon Town (apart from when they play the gas that is)!!! I have even played in their shirt on the County Ground pitch in front of a small crowd - and enjoyed it, but it's nowhere near where my heart is. I tolerate them and wish them well as long as it doesn't interfere with us.
