I agree Hosta, Hubby says he hates football,has watched England says they don't play as a team, they do get ridiculous wages whether they play well or not so what's the insentiive,seems like most of them can't keep it in their pants,drink and drug parties.He will watch women's football.Ironically when I met my first husband he played for the seagulls,his father put a stop to it said it wasn't a "proper"job!!
And some very questionable tax affairs by players and teams.
The 'emperor's new clothes' about all this is that just by having 'big name' teams in a game doesn't make it guaranteed that the game will be any good. It's not a given that Utd vs Madrid is any more exciting than Wrexham Vs Hartlepool. OK, the players may be more skillfull and potentially fitter, but as Mourinho so adequately proved, playing not to lose rather than playing to win, does not make a good spectacle. It was subscription TV that had to big up the games to sell their product - which, in all reality (unless you had some vested interest) were quite often boring.
So does that mean the new Super League will address that by changing the rules (like all the variants we now have on cricket)? Wouldn't that be great? Maybe allowing the defenders to wear boxing gloves and actually punch the attackers (who would wear head protectors), but only if they're in the 'red' zone. War football. And if the football supporters weren't peed off enough already with VAR, just imagine what may be introduced to suit a target American audience - and when will the games will be aired? Obviously all the footballing terms will have to change (as in cricket) to dumb them down as 'football' itself is a difficult term in itself isn't it? I bet they could make a game last 4 hours as well and played over eight quarters (Math (arrrrgh) was never a strong point) with suitable ad breaks.
Then factor in the confusion when on the Saturday, Joe 'The Hit Man' Harcastle whacks 'Justin 'Twnkle Toes' Fancypants' in an EPL game, completely forgetting which rules he's playing to.
I won't bother going nto fixture congestion and how the leagues will try to disrupt the other. And will the SL players even be allowed to go on International Duty anyway - even if they don't all get banned? Would the SL want their star assets being injured in some competion they have no say in?
Love it. I'd pay gallons to watch this.
Actually, if Spurs do go ahead with this, this season will be the last I watch of theirs. Shame. But maybe it will get me out of the house and I'll start watching real live football at the local club...COYET......has a ring to it eh?
Are these clubs expecting their fans to fly across the channel to watch the games?
I'm sure " the average fan " can afford the time and cost involved in that just as easily as they can afford to be buy tickets to watch premier league games.
My grandson and oldest daughter support Millwall,I was shocked when she told me the ticket prices.Then watching the news, supporters fighting, really nasty,nah,I LL stick to the cricket on my village green!!
No, not really. Obviously the SL will want to show the games with raucous crowds in full stadia (but since covid, I bet some CGI companies have already been tapped up to provide crowds and sounds - noticeable in the FA cup semis that fake crowd noise was still overlayed even though people (ok, very few) were admitted) , but this is (like all football is now) a TV thing. TV rights, even in the EPL, pay vastly more than gate receipts (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/251169/revenue-of-tottenham-hotspur-by-stream/) - which is what was also becoming good in the EPL, as so called lesser clubs with smaller grounds, started to pay more for players as the TV money allowed them to - so the competition was getting closer. I think that is also part of the reason for this - as the so called big six couldn't just rely on gates and merchandise to fund better squads and the teams in the league were getting closer to them in way of squads. So how do you safeguard your business model? Fix a league that isn't really a league. Call it Super.
It will be Hosta - we all see the death of programmed TV. The model doesn't suit the young. They want to watch what they want to watch now, not rely on a schedule. They make their own schedule - as you can now (the streaming players fo the terrestrial channels allow you to build your own schedule to a degree). Even the Beeb is caught between a rock and a hard place for that eh? But they're semi stuck being a public service provider. TV seems to be going streaming and pay per view - iPlayer was a leader, but the Beeb still have to provide broadcast services - but they had to compete worldwide (services are no longer restricted to the country of origin and broadcast range) and hence Britbox.
It will be Hosta - we all see the death of programmed TV. The model doesn't suit the young. They want to watch what they want to watch now, not rely on a schedule. They make their own schedule - as you can now (the streaming players fo the terrestrial channels allow you to build your own schedule to a degree). Even the Beeb is caught between a rock and a hard place for that eh? But they're semi stuck being a public service provider. TV seems to be going streaming and pay per view - iPlayer was a leader, but the Beeb still have to provide broadcast services - but they had to compete worldwide (services are no longer restricted to the country of origin and broadcast range) and hence Britbox.
Stop throwing a fortune at sports coverage, leave it to sky and the like and spend the money saved on World beating TV programmes.
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I'm sure " the average fan " can afford the time and cost involved in that just as easily as they can afford to be buy tickets to watch premier league games.