No doubt that SKY have" jumped the shark " with its football coverage which is a shame because if you go back 25/26 years their coverage was revolutionary , back in the day we only had the "match" on a few times a season which featured only man utd and Liverpool , sky gave us a chance to see all the football teams play each and a chance to see different players rather than a 10 minute goals round up at 11.30 on a Saturday night, Andy Gray was a brilliant pundit and the "boot room " show was a cut above anything else and since , Monday night football was also a winner , and about the only thing now they get right , Sky also covered Italian and Scottish football , and acquired the FA cup games and did a great job of showing highlight packages when those leagues & cups were competitive I always remember your Chelsea and west ham cup games which were on sky , for football mad nuts like me and you it was a dream come true, it was still standing in most of the grounds (a fiver at QPR when we were good) it was still a working mans game and you still had this wonderful coverage which we had been starved of for years
its also in a way changed the way we drink in pubs back then pubs shut at 2.30 on a sunday now because of the football they are open all day to cover the games
Unfortunately as the seasons went on the more the monster grew, the bosmnan rule came in and players had the power and could dictate their wages, all seater stadiums and new stadiums came in and the average lads on the streets have now been priced out , the cups are not important as coming "4th" is the holy grail , a new foreign signing would have you excited for weeks now its like "meh"
what's killed it is the government letting other media outlets bid for the rights we have had Satanta , ESPN, BT , we have had PPV games, that's what's driven the price up that and selling the oversees rights , that's what's made all of this money pour in and out of the game , this is what's helped average players become multi millionaires and that's what has priced out you , me and other fans, SKY have lost control now they are trying to save the golden goose subscriptions are down and people are cancelling in their droves completely or to get cheaper deals, even BT are now reviewing their next bids , people are getting bored of it , they are finding better things to do then fund the lifestyle of average players if SKY go it will be Amazon or someone else by then I don't think people will care anymore it may bring back more 3pm games but then again it probably wont
I cancelled my TV subscriptions years ago. it won't change a thing, Footballs loosing it's popularity,that happens from time to time, of course it doesn't help when your teams dropping like lead balloon, it just means you're loosing interest quicker.
