Many of us will be watching it for free either way. Wouldn’t give these greedy broadcasters a penny.
The amount of adverts is insane too. Why would I pay an extortianate amount of money to have so many betting adverts thrown at me.
Its got so bad lately. I remember as a child when sports games were on I didn’t see any, then in my teens/early 20s I didn’t watch anything and watching something recently its just endless and so in your face.
Turns out they allowed gambling advertising in 2007 here.
They’re paying billions for the rights. It’s football that are the greedy bastards.
Does anyone else think he wouldn’t give a shit if it wasn’t Arsenal in the final?
As far as I can tell he certainly didn’t say anything to TNT about the Villa final last week.
Unhinged. Refusal makes him look weaker, acquiescence makes him appear more interested in kick-the-ball than genocide. Have his team lost control of him?
Sir Keith: Team, I’m getting hammered by this local election stuff…what do poor people like that can win me favour?
Team: Fairness in society and upwards economic mobility?
Sir Keith: No. Football. That’s right. I’ll say something about football. Up the blues, or reds. I meant reds. Up the reds.
Panem et circenses
Caesar urges Colosseum to make Circus final free to watch.
Context:
Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens (the Annona) as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. In much modern literature, this represents the Annona as a “briberous and corrupting attempt of the Roman emperors to cover up the fact that they were selfish and incompetent tyrants”.[8]
