Chesterimp
Vital Football Hero
I find it quite refreshing, PL and EFL club supporters both showing a sense of their respective clubs' and leagues' income streams in the current climate.On another matter, I am astounded at the volume of complaints from Premier League fans and the press about having to pay £14.95 to watch a Sky/BT Sport stream of their club.
No mention at all about EFL fans willingly paying £10 a game all season. I certainly would not expect all Lincoln City games to be available free on my TV, so why do EPL fans expect to watch their team for free? To me, £14.95 is a fair price. Nobody is forced to pay it after all.
£10 for a Lincoln game I think is great value, especially knowing that it helps the club financially too.
In the PL the complaint is that the clubs are being greedy, (do bears shit in the woods??), they already get significant income from TV rights and prize money. ST holders aren't getting any discounts for home games irrespective of how they are broadcast? I find the boycott and alternative donations to food banks, etc inspired.
EFL supporters are mainly recognising that iFollow streams represent their clubs' few sources of income. ST holders (at Lincoln at least) are being treated fairly for home games, mainly reciprocating and the rest of us happy to pay up, piracy robs the clubs of already limited income.
But it's disappointing that the media are not reporting and contrasting the PL and EFL supporters' responses.