[colin25]

Originally Posted by harry_hitch

My point was simply based on the fact it finally became a newsworthy story. I do not recall Sky ever using their rights to hoard all the important games at the end of the season when Setanta or ESPN (who had considerablly less finances behind them) were involved. I may be wrong, but I can not remember it happening previously.

I do not recall denigrating Sky's use of using their right to show all these games. I am sure BT would do the same - I do not recall stating otherwise. BT got scared about Sky encroaching on their BB customers and reacted.

The trouble Sky have is that the PL rights effectively lets them charge what they want for sports. They, allegedly, generate huge profits from the sports channels and they will miss those alleged profits greatly.

Yup, I had a bad experience with Sky, but that does mean I hate them. As a pure business model, they are to be admired. I had some bad experiences (inbetween many enjoyable ones) whilst working for Iceland for 8 years, does that mean I hate them if I comment on them? I still have bad experiences with VM from to time, does that mean I hate them too?

People coming on here, simply to defend Sky?

Equally sad

lol. You said "it shows sky is afraid", because they chose the best games.

What games should they have chosen? the worst?