An open letter to our Sky overlords – Column
Sunday, 4th Dec 2016 18:41 by Clive Whittingham
Following Thursday’s poorly attended defeat to Wolves, and two months before we get to play at home on a Saturday afternoon again, LFW would like to plea for a ceasefire from the Championship’s main broadcaster.
Dear Sky,
My old mate Stuart, sadly no longer with us, used to start letters like this with ‘do you recognise me? I’m your customer.'
Every month the thick end of £100 goes out of my bank account and for that we get the whole lot – the fibre broadband, the telephone we never use and all of the television. All the kids channels, all the movies, all the documentaries and all the sport including, for an extra £17 a month, all the BT Sport channels which we never watch but pay for just on the off chance we might. LFW is a Sky household, one of those ‘triple play customers’ who are the prime real estate for the telecoms companies. The BT rights grab, the rising Premier League deal – it’s all done to get people like us signed up to contracts exactly like the one we’re on. There are half a dozen of us working on this site, and there are four all-encompassing Sky subscriptions between us.
So please, if anybody at Sky does ever read this, don’t dismiss this as the standard anti-Sky, anti-Murdoch rant by somebody who in any way boycotts your product.
Nor is it a worthy piece from the Against Modern Football movement. We don’t spend our Saturdays at Dulwich Hamlet supping pints of Goblin’s Cock and saying we enjoy the football much more than the professional stuff. We are Championship season ticket holders who consume Sky’s football content voraciously. I’m about to sit down and watch Forest v Newcastle, really looking forward to it.
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Sunday, 4th Dec 2016 18:41 by Clive Whittingham
Following Thursday’s poorly attended defeat to Wolves, and two months before we get to play at home on a Saturday afternoon again, LFW would like to plea for a ceasefire from the Championship’s main broadcaster.
Dear Sky,
My old mate Stuart, sadly no longer with us, used to start letters like this with ‘do you recognise me? I’m your customer.'
Every month the thick end of £100 goes out of my bank account and for that we get the whole lot – the fibre broadband, the telephone we never use and all of the television. All the kids channels, all the movies, all the documentaries and all the sport including, for an extra £17 a month, all the BT Sport channels which we never watch but pay for just on the off chance we might. LFW is a Sky household, one of those ‘triple play customers’ who are the prime real estate for the telecoms companies. The BT rights grab, the rising Premier League deal – it’s all done to get people like us signed up to contracts exactly like the one we’re on. There are half a dozen of us working on this site, and there are four all-encompassing Sky subscriptions between us.
So please, if anybody at Sky does ever read this, don’t dismiss this as the standard anti-Sky, anti-Murdoch rant by somebody who in any way boycotts your product.
Nor is it a worthy piece from the Against Modern Football movement. We don’t spend our Saturdays at Dulwich Hamlet supping pints of Goblin’s Cock and saying we enjoy the football much more than the professional stuff. We are Championship season ticket holders who consume Sky’s football content voraciously. I’m about to sit down and watch Forest v Newcastle, really looking forward to it.
Read the rest here ... http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba.../an-open-letter-to-our-sky-overlords-–-column
