Cricket to Sky

Originally Posted by gazzae

Money could and probably is part of the problem but I think a lot of it stems from the fact that coaches put more emphases on fitness than actually playing the sport. When I was at school football training was a lot of running and then maybe, if we were lucky, the balls would come out towards the end. As a result the UK produces a lot of players who can run 10 miles but have poor ball control.

Plus with the youth player rules in UK football where under 12's have to live within an hour of the club and under 16's having to live within 90 minutes of the club means that if a manager can't find a young player who lives within these ranges then hes more likely to look abroad where these restrictions don't apply.

Anyway this is for another thread.

good points

I think the money aspect is relevant to the thread, but agree we shouldn't go any further on using football as the example.

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Originally Posted by Nugget

Oh, and Sky aren't allowed to have to World Cup - I can't remember what they are called, but there are certain events (such as the World Cup and the Olympics) that have to be shown on terrestrial telly.

They are known as the Crown Jewels. The ECB asked for test matches to be removed from the list several years ago.

As I mentioned the last time this was debated, Sky are the only channel that have ever done ball by ball coverage. The BBC many years ago used to nip off to Wimbledon etc, C4 to the racing, last year C4 even managed to miss the last half hour of play because it didn't fit into the schedule.
Sky are the only people ever, to broadcast live test matches from overseas, and have been as innovative as C4 with new technology.

What is a real pain is that BBC only broadcast TMS on 198 long wave and 5Live Extra on digital.
But that is only because I have just bought my 7th new Volvo and for the first time ever the radio will not get long wave.