Will you be paying the £14.95 pay per view?

[_Rich_]

If you missed the news https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54481945


Personally mixed views on this one, usually I have a season ticket which I believe would work out roughly the same as the pay per view (per game). But being there is worth more with the fans, rather than listening to fake noise?

Myself my dad and brother (all season ticket holders) are talking about coming to mine and chucking in a fiver each to watch the games. Great! but then what if my mum comes along, which usually happens if our team are on sky sports and playing away. What about my brother wanting to bring the kids and partner. This breaks the rule of six... Now just to say I won't let this happen, but we can assume this will happen elsewhere.

Why not a fiver? The cameras are already there, they broadcast around the world, i'm struggling to understand the extra cost when logistically it shouldn't cost much more to broadcast in the UK.

If rumours are to be true- Leicester are the only club to oppose this! That is shocking in itself.

I love football, I follow it daily, it's my go to whenever's its on tv, be it premier league, championship or the women's football.

Whilst i write this the more i feel it takes the piss they charge this much (and answered my own questions), the premier league has enough money to sustain itself for years, the leagues below are where this pay per view money should be going!

[SydneyBridge]

How is this money being shared out?

Nope, i wont be paying, rather listen on the radio

[aeropilot]

SydneyBridge said:

Nope, i wont be paying, rather listen on the radio

I've been out of work for 6 months now, because of this bloody bug, so I won't be paying either....

[_Rich_]

SydneyBridge said:

How is this money being shared out?

Quote from the athletic-
'Premier League clubs will receive the PPV profits, after production costs.'

[hepy]

The Premier League and TV companies don't care about fans in the stadium. It's all about the TV viewers, the stadium fans are just an inconvenience. 'Real' fans sit on their sofas consuming the game and buying products advertised to them.

No fans mean game times can be moved to accommodate TV schedules and viewers out of the UK.

Just a bloody money machine.

The championship club I support, gives you home games for free if you are a season ticket holder, plus credit off next years season ticket and 6 away games. Why can't Premiership clubs do that? Answer- cos they are self interested, money grabbing, greedy f##kers who only want to line their pockets.

Wow, I feel better for getting that off my chest....thank you for listening!

[Pothole]

Only one game on the list I'd wanna see. I'm away in Wales, lockdowns allowing, so I'll watch it in a pub (ditto) or not ATCMB.

[Radec]

No, already pay for Sky and BT, anything else will be streamed via other means.

[hilly10]

Yes I will pay, it’s only a round of drinks in the grand scheme of things

[48k]

hepy said:

The Premier League and TV companies don't care about fans in the stadium. It's all about the TV viewers,

They've already figured out how to simulate passable crowd noise how long before they figure out a CGI crowd?

[scoey1001]

I know this obviously means you can watch specific games but don't forget there is nearly always a deal for around £20 for a now TV sky sports month pass. So if your team is on sky a couple of times in the month it's worth it plus you get all the other games aswell.

[TCEvo]

hepy said:

The Premier League and TV companies don't care about fans in the stadium. It's all about the TV viewers, the stadium fans are just an inconvenience. 'Real' fans sit on their sofas consuming the game and buying products advertised to them.

No fans mean game times can be moved to accommodate TV schedules and viewers out of the UK.

Just a bloody money machine.

The championship club I support, gives you home games for free if you are a season ticket holder, plus credit off next years season ticket and 6 away games. Why can't Premiership clubs do that? Answer- cos they are self interested, money grabbing, greedy f##kers who only want to line their pockets.

Wow, I feel better for getting that off my chest....thank you for listening!

I've an ST @ WHUFC. We received codes to watch the games last season - I watched a couple, post-lockdown, we've had nothing so far this season (despite the Club having my cash).

The KO times have been being fked around with for ages by TV - it's particularly bad at the moment, if we're ever allowed back to the Stadium I don't want to be watching games @ 19:00 on a Sunday (or Sunday at all really).

For me Football's for Saturday's. Now they've established the whole weekend being for games I can't see that changing back - as you've pointed out the fans, as usual, are the last consideration.

As for paying, usual PL own goal @ £15; plenty of options out there so no, fk them, no chance I'll be paying.

[A Winner Is You]

A complete own goal due to their greed. If they'd charged a fiver then that's the type of money you'd spend without thinking, but for £15 anyone remotely tech savvy will just illegally restream it.

[craig1912]

Nope, really lost interest in the Premiership. Too much money involved and too greedy. I also this if they are doing this then proceeds should go to the lower leagues who rely almost totally on crowd receipts.

[LukeBrown66]

If you go down this road it will become the norm

As usual the British public will lap it up enough that the companies make it the norm.

Sadly we are so dumb we make it easy for them.

Well you do, I never pay for anything lol!

[leglessAlex]

Not a fking chance. I'm fortunate that I'm doing okay and could afford it, but the principle pisses me off.

Susan Whelan and Leicester City can hold their heads high, givewn that she was the only one to vote against introducing this.

[franki68]

It’s impossible to have any sympathy for premier league clubs who continued to pay full salaries to the players during lockdown ,and even more difficult to be sympathetic given how they allow agents to bleed money from the game ,something they could easily resolve .
Finally as a United fan given recent performances they should be paying me to watch them .

[MitchT]

I'm not into football but, for comparison, I wouldn't pay £14.95 to PPV an F1 race - far too expensive, though maybe if I were earning twice as much I wouldn't give it a second thought. Perhaps if there were a bunch of people getting together at someone's house and sharing the cost it would stack up, but covid restrictions have shafted that.

[untakenname]

Priced far too high, I wouldn't ever pay £15 for any single sporting event bar top flight boxing with a good card.

[bigandclever]

A couple of years ago PlayStation were messing about with VR and the premier league. Essentially you were positioned in one of the director boxes, tilt your head to the left and you could see multiple betting/tv screens, tilt your head to the right and you got other games/tv screens. Multiple camera angles of your choosing for the game, and so on. Not that it matters but I’m sure Leicester was the club. The aim was to get to a point where you’d buy a virtual season ticket for the team of your choice. Not sure what happened to it.

[A Winner Is You]

MitchT said:

I'm not into football but, for comparison, I wouldn't pay £14.95 to PPV an F1 race - far too expensive, though maybe if I were earning twice as much I wouldn't give it a second thought. Perhaps if there were a bunch of people getting together at someone's house and sharing the cost it would stack up, but covid restrictions have shafted that.

Or for another comparison, it's more than a month's subscription to Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, WWE Network, Xbox Game Pass or Youtube Premium