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Because Jews can't watch TV on a Saturday and can't go to any games... (if you did actually know any, then you should know that)
However I hope your not suggesting KO times should be changed to suit peoples religious beliefs, like thats the reason anyway ffs
I'm not actually saying that - what I'm saying is that there are far too many games on a Saturday. And a Sunday would be much better.
I don't have a problem with PPV, the SPL was properly fucked financially when we turned down a £50m Sky deal 5 years ago and we had to go cap in hand to the BBC and got a pittance. That's a pretty good deal if you ask me, and it encourages me to go to more games because I think supporting my team is worth more than 30 second highlights on Scotsport on a Monday night. Just a shame my fellow fans don't think so.
I just have no time for glory hunting "fans", it's not like they have to support their adopted English team through thick and thin (never see too many Villa or Leeds fans up here, eh?), it's sheer armchair glory hunting.
But you can bet your bottom dollar once their Scottish team gets anywhere near a final, they'll be right at the front off the queue for tickets probably depriving a proper foulweather fan of getting a chance to see his one footballing love play in a cup final and it makes me fucking sick.
Better for who? If you reguarly attend matches you want 3pm Saturdays kick offs like it always has been. Means you have plenty of time to travel to away games, have a few beers before etc
All these weird kick off times may suit some armchair fans but for the rest of us its just fucking annoying. I think I can count on one hand the number of 3pm ko's I've been to this season.
It's better for people who work on a Saturday who can't get time off work...
My teams first game this season 12.45 sat and final game 1.45 sunday. What has happened to tradition. I havent been able to go to some away games just because of the kickoff time e.g. Friday night 7.45, i dont want to have to be waiting for a train or staying somewhere after the game.
Surely more people have Saturday off than weekdays. I wouldnt want to have to travel miles on a weekday night if i have work the next day
I've never seen the point in "supporting" a club you will never go and see, whats the point?
Because some people are 'Glory Supporters' therefore, don't have a clue about football and only support a team who are always winning things... :rolleyes:
The point is that they can then show off saying "we won the cup, we won the cup". Then they laugh at us people supporting our local football league team because we arent as successful
I'm sorry Sofie I've got a sneaky suspicion that your part of what I'm moaning about.
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:yes: I support my local team and got called a 'Glory Supporter' because I got asked who I supported the year after we got promoted to League One. (Back then it was Division Two) :rolleyes:
Why? Sundays will be so boring now with no football on the TV. However, it does mean I can get my arse into gear and revise...
i think its mainly because i dont follow a premiership team tho.
following a championship time usually means regular playing times unless on sky.
i think the creation of the premiership didnt do wonders for the state of football, its widened the gap too much, plus also the collapse of ITV digital did a lot of damage to clubs which is still being felt throughout the football league.
Saturday is football day and it always will be!!!
There's no soccer friday or soccer sunday, there's only soccer saturday!!
The England games are played on Saturday.
The FA Cup is on Saturday.
"When we walk through the storm...!!!"
We got lucky tonight, so I won't rub it in too much, but why gives a fuck it, Champions League here we come!
I'll reply to the other pish tomorrow when I've come down off the ceiling and sobered up.
Sky is also responsible for more kids than ever before from Cornwall, from Devon, from the Lake Districts, supporting clubs fucking hundreds of miles away. Who needs to support your "lowly" unglamorous local club when you can follow the likes of Man U or Arsenal live practically every week from your telly? Some of the most fundamental basic principles of football, 'supporting your local club' and 'football in the community', are being eroded irreversively by this gravy train that is the ever increasing number of Premiership games being shown live on TV.
The only concession I'll make is that had Sky not won the rights initially all of the above would have still happened, under a different company. It's the existence of such money-making commercial enterprises that has caused the problems. But as the company that won the rights it is normal for Sky to find itself the target of criticism.
How come Spurs always manage to draw a crowd then?
Because there are Spurs fans who aren't Jewish? (Or they could be supporting the other team)
You're only in the qualifying stages my Jambo friend, far as am aware you've got a first round to get through, then you'll probably have to play a seeded team which finished 3rd in their league before you even get near the group stage. Looking at the leagues around Europe, that means the likes Real Madrid or Liverpool I'm afraid.
If Hearts make it into the group stages I'll go out into the street, scoop up the nearest dog shit, put it in a blender and have a dog shit smoothie
I reckon the prices are the main reason for not bothering any more. You can go and watch Real Madrid or Barcelona for about £15. I could actually get a flight over there and watch them for the same price as a ticket over here. Check out the car-parks of your club now if it's a premiership one. I bet it's full of Audis and Mercedes.
And the fact that too much is on TV nowadays. I feel sorry for the real Man Utd/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool fans, because there's so many glory supporters. It's quite easy to spot them. If they're over 22, they'll support Liverpool. Between 16 and 21, they'll support Man Utd. And under 16, they'll support Chelsea. With a few Arsenal fans dotted about in between.
I have to point out that people have been coming up to Old Trafford from the West Country for 30+ years, I don't consider them glory hunters. Obviously thats not all of them though.
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Footballs supposed to be watched in scilence isn't it? Thats what a worrying amount of people seem to think going off some of the looks I get at an average match.
Haha, me and my mates were saying last night that it's pretty much written in the stars that we'll get put out in the first game. It's all part of being a Jambo!
It was a joke.
No it isn't.
The Premier League decides the fixture list, and how many live games are in the package, not the broadcaster.
I'd also suggest that Sky wouldn't have 5.15 kickoffs if they were allowed to screen games between 3 and 5 on a Saturday afternoon. Not that they should be allowed to.
Oh, for god's sake, they did that before. It's nothing new.
All the kids supported Liverpool in the 1980s, they all supported Man Utd in the 1960s. Bradford and Halifax and Huddersfield and Barnsley have seen their stadiums empty for fifty years, with everyone driving up the road to watch the filth at Bellend Road because they were more successful.
And what is "supporting your local side" though? My local side are the Toon. I don't support them- never have, never will.
*yawn*
And if the BBC won the contract for live games you wouldn't have an issue, yeah? They're not out to make money, after all.
And the FA Cup this year wasn't wanked about with because of Sky, was it?
Of course, the PL is much to blame for selling itself. But let's not pretend BSkyB hasn't played a fundamental part in this.