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Originally Posted by mike_gain

This is exactly what I am doing for this season. I could afford both of them but I am refusing to shell out near enough £37 for Sky Sports and the presumed £15-£20 for BT on the basis that I think this is a ridiculous amount of money for just sports channels

Instead I'm going to put my money towards renewing my season ticket at my club and because my season ticket will be cheaper than the Sky/BT price for a season I'll spend the difference on my teams new top and a few afternoons in the pub watching some football when BT decide to stick my team on on a Friday/Monday night.

Television money and the power TV companies have gained, as a result of pumping stupid amounts of money in, is ruining football in the UK and I am no longer prepared to help fund this.

Rant over, back to a happy Friday afternoon

Repped. The most deserving I have given imo.

---------- Post added at 19:21 ---------- Previous post was at 19:08 ----------

Surely nobody knows if the 530pm slot will get worse viewing figures than the 1245pm slot because until now ESPN, with fewer subscribers than Sky, have had the 530pm slot. You could equally make the argument that at 1245pm more blokes are sitting outside changing rooms waiting for their WAGs to decide if they can squeeze into a 12, and by the time they get home they'll be able to make a claim that they deserve to be left alone to watch the footy for a bit. But that would ignore the fact that many women like to watch football as well.