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Post by Sparky on Apr 2, 2020 7:25:20 GMT
I find it completely lost the plot when the ridiculous money (and you can blame SKY for that !) came into it. It seems to me the clubs are just greedy behemoths looking to hoover up vast sums of cash and its more about the business rather than the sport these days. This season is the first since I started watching it in the early 80s where i've completely switched off from it, I've not even bothered with MOTD. I've not missed it at all .In the words of the dragons ... I'm out. I'm not a massive, fanatical football fan. Never have been.
Though if there is a big match worth watching - such as England in a big match (not some p*** poor Tuesday night kickabout in the Eastern Block) I will watch.
Though - the whole 'football' thing is certainly now all about the Cash, Rights and Sponsorship - and Agents too.
The Sportsmanship seems to fall (excuse pun) Second Division. I do enjoy "Big Match Revisited" on ITV4 - the whole attitude was totally different back then.
Thing is, even Rugby and Cricket has gone the same way too.
With the TV rights thing - it not the FA who negotiate and sell the rights of Premiership (and other) matches to the Broadcasters?
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 2, 2020 9:32:43 GMT
The Big Match Revisited is a great watch. Things were so different back then. Brian Moore was a great broadcaster.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 2, 2020 10:13:47 GMT
Not really a die hard football fan/head but did like Brian Moore, as a presenter commentator.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 2, 2020 10:21:13 GMT
Brian's finest commentary moment...
Michael Thomas v Liverpool 1989 - last gasp winner
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 2, 2020 10:56:47 GMT
Just looked up the wage bill for the premier league, its £2.9bn per annum for the twenty clubs.
£2,900,000,000.
Take a year off being paid and solve some problems for the ordinary folk - they'd be heroes for evermore.
Will it happen, never and that's appalling.
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Post by Sparky on Apr 2, 2020 15:15:31 GMT
Just looked up the wage bill for the premier league, its £2.9bn per annum for the twenty clubs. £2,900,000,000. That is Eye watering.
Then there's the amounts the Clubs each earn in Sponsorhip, TV Rights, Brand/Sales, Gate Receipts, Season Tickets, Corporate Hospitality.
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Post by Cartman on Apr 2, 2020 17:35:25 GMT
Spot on, on football. I am a fan, but my interest has ebbed and flowed over the years, paralleling music really. I was a huge fan in the 70s, lost interest in the 80s, got it back in the 90s, but not as much as before.
It went down the pan when sky started chucking big money at it.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Apr 2, 2020 17:43:35 GMT
Brian's finest commentary moment...
Michael Thomas v Liverpool 1989 - last gasp winner
The STATE of the goal area . Can you imagine how the modern day players would react to that?
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 2, 2020 19:54:10 GMT
Brian's finest commentary moment...
Michael Thomas v Liverpool 1989 - last gasp winner
The STATE of the goal area . Can you imagine how the modern day players would react to that? Considering it was the end of a delayed season because of the Hillsborough disaster that wasn't that bad. Most pitches were like that by the end of autumn in that era. Watching 70s football its like a quagmire .
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 2, 2020 19:56:38 GMT
I love the 70s sets for The Big Match. Brian Moore is looking a bit Haskins there Seen in the clip below from 1979 the set had a blue look complete with BT phone and a mic poking out the desk no less Another quaint tradition on The Big Match was reading out of viewers letters including reading out their full address.
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