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English Premier League TV rights break all records: £ 4.2 billion
Pay-TV group Sky has agreed to pay 4.2 billion pounds (6.4 billion dollars) to show 126 live English Premier League matches a season from 2016 to 2019, pressured by fierce rival BT to smash analysts' forecasts and secure the best games. Read full article
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Feb 11th, 2015 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0In the home of Football. England.
As it should be, for it is the natural order of such things.
I much prefer our home grown version of footy. But good luck to the Premier League; it has quite the following down under too.
Feb 11th, 2015 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not forgetting the 50-over world cup starting in a few days time.
Feb 11th, 2015 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Warm-up games happening as I type.
Chasing 251 to win, Pakistan 49-3 off 15.1
Perhaps the clubs will bring ticket prices down so fans get a better deal. I always was an optimist.
Feb 11th, 2015 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0BT have funded their bid by pushing up telephone subscriber prices, no doubt Sky will push up their subscriptions in some none identifiable way. The outcome is likely to be more ridiculous player valuations and even more massive transfer fees.
@4
Feb 11th, 2015 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the income tax goes where from these inflated salaries, some footballers get £ 300,000 per week . It is obscene to give so much money to 18, 19 yr olds.
what can the inhabitants of the islets or this 4th class newspaper know about football?
Feb 11th, 2015 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0eh?
nothing.
only in la liga you can find records of tv rights, records of audience, and most important, the best football on earth.
the epl is some kind of joke of just 1 team, chelsea.
and they are doing good because they only have 1 english player in the whole fucking squad, terry.
anyway, when they compete in the champions league, europa league, etc, you realize that they are crap, despite some really good players like cesc fabregas, costa, courtois, drogba, etc.
#6
Feb 11th, 2015 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whether you like it or not, it is a commercial decision by the companies who bid for the franchise. There must be a market for watching a group of overpaid poseurs chasing a ball around a field. God knows why !
“There must be a market for watching a group of overpaid poseurs chasing a ball around a field. God knows why !”
Feb 11th, 2015 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0dont be so bitter and grumpy, grandpa
~6 ah, more jealous spittle from the penguin-cedron, it is only to be expected...
Feb 11th, 2015 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0whatever you say, the world will pay more, a lot more, to watch the EPL than La Liga. (and of course there are no non-italian players in La Liga? Is that right?)
So it seems millions, perhaps billions, of people disagree with you.
You think you are more qualified to judge than those business people who decided to spend £4.2 billion? Have you ever wonder why they have high-paid jobs and a comfortable life, whilst you are unemployed, living in the villa miseria?
Who watches the Argentine league? Most people don't even know what it is called.
How is Football Para Todos going? Looks like your government has to pay your own tax back to you, just to get people involved in Argentine football.
PS: We are still waiting for you to tell us which of 'the most prestigious universities on earth' that you attended, that wasn't British. Which leaves seven in the top ten, all in the USA.
So, come on, do tell.
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Feb 11th, 2015 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“...and of course there are no non-italian players in La Liga? Is that right?”
que pelotudo que sos...JAJA.
most of the players in La Liga are NON ITALIAN, you retarded isleter.
what the fuck have the italians got to do?
try to comment only about the things you know, and that is NOTHING.
lol benny-hillbillys
Perhaps 10 paulcedron
Feb 11th, 2015 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what would you argies give to see this in reality, would you not,
Argentine Premier League TV rights break all records: £ 4.2 billion
now wouldn't THAT be nice,
lololol
Dream on.
@9
Feb 11th, 2015 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was you that said (@6) that La Liga is
“the best football on earth.
the epl is some kind of joke of just 1 team, chelsea.
and they are doing good because they only have 1 english player ”
So you have just blindsided yourself. lol!
You can't even argue your case, whatever it is...
Very strange for someone who claims to have attended 'one of the most prestigious universities on earth' , that wasn't British.
Which leaves seven in the top ten, all in the USA.
So, come on, do tell. Which one was it?
Oh the envy from little Paulie! Its sooo entertaining to read. Bahahahaha
Feb 11th, 2015 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That money is only for the Premier Leagues UK and BOT broadcasting! Another massive chunk of cash is coming from the worldwide broadcasting rights. I have seen posters and chatted to locals in Kenya, Malaysia, China, Namibia, Chile, Argentina and lots of European countries and the USA who follow our Premier league. I have NEVER ever been anywhere where anyone has EVER mentioned Argie Football. Its nowhere. Its nothing, like the Falklands hate its just confined to Argie knuckle draggers.
Paul-carrion, you claim to have attended one of the most prestigious universities on earth. ...
Feb 11th, 2015 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do tell us all about it.
14 imbecile
Feb 11th, 2015 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0la liga is from spain, you retarded isleter.
surely you think that la liga was some kind of italian name...lol, ignorant monoglot.
in italy, where you can find lots of italian and non italian, the name is serie A, you dumbasshole.
and of course the best players in all of those leagues are AR-GEN-TI-NIAN.
GOT IT NOW???
#7
Feb 11th, 2015 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not grumpy, I just cannot understand the way football is treated as a religion.
An ability to kick a ball and put it into a net makes a player worth millions, while people who do worthwhile important jobs are paid a pittance.
Somethings gone wrong in society.
Premier League versus La Liga.
Feb 11th, 2015 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 02013/14 attendance for 380 games (avg game attendance in brackets):
EPL 13,942,45 (36,691)
LL 10,146,760 (26,702)
So La Liga attracts 10,000 less unemployed Spaniards to each game than an EPL equivalent.
TV rights?
EPL £5.14 billion (US$7,830,000,000)
LL €650 million (US$734,000,000)
10 TIMES the difference.
Jeez even Aussie Rules (AFL) have a starting bid of US$1,160,000,000 for their TV rights at the moment. But then we don't have the unemployment or low growth of Spain so it is affordable.
PS: Largest football attendance last year? AFL Grand Final with 99,454
This is lunacy writ large.
Feb 11th, 2015 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We pay for a Sky package which we access via our PN, no doubt the costs will go through the roof to pay for this nonsense.
I agree with @ 16.
Agreed.
Feb 11th, 2015 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0La Liga/ Serie A, same difference. Both have two top teams and the rest? might as well be Argentine...
Feb 12th, 2015 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0@16 Clyde15
Feb 12th, 2015 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm right there with you. I never had any interest in football (I prefer Rugby).
But I suppose the difference is that no one pays to watch the people who do those important jobs (firefighters, doctors, nurses, paramedics, etc..) but they do pay to watch football, and they'll pay ridiculously over the odds to watch it too!
I mean I've know someone who paid well over the limits for an FA Cup final ticket, he has a season ticket for his team, and pays to watch it on TV too. But if you told him that instead of paying for football he had to pay for healthcare, with the money going straight to the wages of the staff looking after him, he'd probably do his nut. He'd rather die than miss his football.
It's a mad world out there.
#21
Feb 12th, 2015 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The last professional football match I saw was in 1946 at Ibrox with Glasgow Rangers. The highlight of the game was a packet of crisps at half time !
My claim to footballing fame was when I played against Real Madrid “B” team in Blanes in 1956. We made friends with the local lads and they challenged us, (schoolkids on holiday), to a match.
Dressed in a pair of ex- army Desert Rat's khaki shorts, aertex shirt and sand shoes, I joined our make shift team ready to give battle in a kick around at the local stadium. To our horror, there were about 500 spectators there.
Instead of the local lads we had made friends with, a team came out resplendent in an all- white strip playing keepie uppie.
We had been set up ! Real Madrid came down to the coast in summer to train and get out of the heat.
Needless to say, we lost ! The score was something like 39-1. Even our one goal was complementary . They halted the game, lined up at their goalmouth and allowed our captain to walk the ball unopposed, into their net.
They gave us a porrón signed by all the team which was in pride of place in our school cabinet next to a picture of a pupil who had won the VC in the RAF in WW2. Our porrón was just as hard to win.... although we were in no danger of death !
My claim to fame was putting one of their players off the field when I ran into him at full speed. Playing full back in our rugby team, weighing 13 1/2 stone and capable of running fast in a straight line, he did not get out of my way so he went up in the air and hit the ground hard. Technically it was a foul but the ref. ignored it. Oh to be young and fit again !
I heard on the BBC News that Sky will probably be increasing their charges for TV and internet as will BT, to recover the costs Thankfully I subscribe to neither and have talktalk as my ISP and telephone provider. However, no doubt I will be caught out somewhere as advertising bills will increase and be added on to the price of goods.
assholes:
Feb 14th, 2015 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0you have never seen a football match in your puta life .
then, shut the fuck up.
got it?
Only the impotent shout 'shut up' at the world. This is because they are so very frightened by other people. Especially by other people that are wealthier, better educated and are hosts to the most important football league in the world.
Feb 18th, 2015 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
I don't think I will be shutting up any time soon paulie boy. Best you give up now.
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