***Official*** English Football Season 2020-21

[Uppercut]

They should hold champions league games at 1-2 pm GMT. Viewership will explode in India and China.

Yeah La Liga have tried putting the odd game on at these times. I don't think it worked that well though.

It's sometimes kind of taken as given that India and China are where the money is, but it's not really true. The idea is to expand into Asia, but if you can only do it at the expense of western fans it's not usually worth it. The biggest TV, sponsorship, and merch deals are in Europe and North America, places with overvalued currencies where people have a lot of disposable income. Selling rights to China especially can get quite complicated because of the unreliable political situation. They defaulted on their PL rights deal.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah La Liga have tried putting the odd game on at these times. I don't think it worked that well though.

It's sometimes kind of taken as given that India and China are where the money is, but it's not really true. The idea is to expand into Asia, but if you can only do it at the expense of western fans it's not usually worth it. The biggest TV, sponsorship, and merch deals are in Europe and North America, places with overvalued currencies where people have a lot of disposable income. Selling rights to China especially can get quite complicated because of the unreliable political situation. They defaulted on their PL rights deal.

Fair, I don't know much about how viewership numbers translate to $$ in India and China for Champions League.

 

[WICFan]

Wouldn't surprise me, BT's football coverage has gone downhill since the channel launched. They've managed to lose all their Scottish football coverage, Serie A and Liga NOS, and they've never really broken Sky's stranglehold on Premier League rights.

Picking up the likes of WWE wouldn't have come cheap, I think the FA Cup is exclusively on terrestrial TV from next season with ITV getting the rights BT had.

Matchroom Boxing recently signed with DAZN, ending it's partnership with Sky bar a couple of boxers.

 

[sledger]

bad ebening

 

[sledger]

Actually not a bad result in the end

 

[andruid]

#arsenalfansout

Anyway, poking fun at arsenal used to be amusing, now it is getting really sad.

 

[Uppercut]

Cavani was SO good last night, best individual performance we've had in years. His assists were absolutely dreamy.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I followed the two semi-finals on Sky Sports News and the nimrod who was presenting said to Viv Anderson who was watching the match "That's a second away goal for Roma is that the tie over already?". It's amazing how idiots like that get to present sport on TV. (before furball brings up my Celtic comment, I'm not presenting sport on TV. ). To be fair to Viv he said at half time that United would win comfortably based on what he'd seen in the first half.

 

[Furball]

I'd be curious to find out how many teams concede 2 away goals in the first half of the first leg and go through.

 

[wpdavid]

I'd be curious to find out how many teams concede 2 away goals in the first half of the first leg and go through.

Nottingham Forest at home to Cologne in the semi-final of the 1979 European Cup.

Great game on an interesting pitch.

 

[grecian]

Shilton was always bizarrely overrated.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

We had Gordon Banks in goal during my first few years of watching football so watching a keeper dive over the ball in a vital World Cup qualifier was quite a surprise.

 

[wpdavid]

Shilton was always bizarrely overrated.

Badly at fault for the first goal, wasn't he.

 

[wpdavid]

We had Gordon Banks in goal during my first few years of watching football so watching a keeper dive over the ball in a vital World Cup qualifier was quite a surprise.

Were you old enough to watch Bonetti do exactly that in the 1970 WC quarter final? But Shilton's effort against Domarski was probably worse.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Were you old enough to watch Bonetti do exactly that in the 1970 WC quarter final? But Shilton's effort against Domarski was probably worse.

I didn’t see any of Mexico 1970 live, but I had seen the goals later. I wasn’t too familiar with Bonetti due to the lack of live football on TV. A friend of my brother who was a few years older said at the time that he wasn’t expecting to play so wasn’t really at his sharpest. Crap excuse, but I was too young at the time to form much of an opinion.

 

[grecian]

Were you old enough to watch Bonetti do exactly that in the 1970 WC quarter final? But Shilton's effort against Domarski was probably worse.

No, but actually let in two terrible goals in that Cologne match, and still blame him for the Maradonna goal, even with the hand, and perhaps harshly the Brehme goal in 1990, stay on your line, oh and if you go the right way with all the pens you may want to get an hand onone, but he was a useless pen saver, should have put Beasant in goal for the shootout. Three World Cups, that'll do for me to dislike him.

I was always a Clemence man, though, and TBH Shilton's latter career, being a particularly obnoxious Argyle manager, and now Gammon central has not adhered me much to him over the years.

 

[wpdavid]

No, but actually let in two terrible goals in that Cologne match, and still blame him for the Maradonna goal, even with the hand, and perhaps harshly the Brehme goal in 1990, stay on your line, oh and if you go the right way with all the pens you may want to get an hand onone, but he was a useless pen saver, should have put Beasant in goal for the shootout. Three World Cups, that'll do for me to dislike him.

I was always a Clemence man, though, and TBH Shilton's latter career, being a particularly obnoxious Argyle manager, and now Gammon central has not adhered me much to him over the years.

I can't argue with any of that. And I do like the thought of Robson subbing him on 120 minutes to get Beasant in goal for the shoot-out.

 

[grecian]

Speaking of olden days, did see a few Italian Journos moaning about how the Prem Leagues were ruining football by having much more money than other teams, last night. TBF to them they were probably too young to remember when the likes of AC Milan just bought Jean-Marie Papin for a World record transfer fee, to sit him in the reserves so other teams didn't have him.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I'm just slightly too young to remember the Shilton/Clemence rotation dealy, the pubic haired one was the unquestioned #1 when I were a lad, but it does seem incredible the depth of keepers we had then.

Corrigan at Citeh, Rimmer at Villa, Cooper at Ipswich (who could save penalties), Parkes at yer Irons and dear old Johnny Lukic at the Arse.

And that's without mentioning Gary Bailey. Because we shouldn't.

 

[GIMH]

I'm just slightly too young to remember the Shilton/Clemence rotation dealy, the pubic haired one was the unquestioned #1 when I were a lad, but it does seem incredible the depth of keepers we had then.

Corrigan at Citeh, Rimmer at Villa, Cooper at Ipswich (who could save penalties), Parkes at yer Irons and dear old Johnny Lukic at the Arse.

And that's without mentioning Gary Bailey. Because we shouldn't.

And the best of the lot was Eric Nixon