Football Banter

There is a certain irony about English football fans slagging Arsenal off for brining up The Invincibles when their national side won one tournament at home when there was half the number of teams and haven't shut up about it for 50 fucking years

(01-03-2020 17:10 )southsidestu Wrote:  There is a certain irony about English football fans slagging Arsenal off for brining up The Invincibles when their national side won one tournament at home when there was half the number of teams and haven't shut up about it for 50 fucking years

I just hope I live long enough to see "100 years of hurt"

Belting match at Tottenham today.
Quality of the goals from both sides was superb in the match.
Pleased that my lot came out of it with a win.
4th to 8th is pretty tightly bunched. Five points difference. Arsenal with a game in hand also to get to within 5 points of 4th themselves.
Mad frantic scramble in the last 10 games looms.

That's a lot of nastiness around in the world at the moment but watch this and I swear your faith in the human race will be lifted. Ben Foster and Watford Football Club showing what a credit they are to football and life in general

https://twitter.com/WatfordFC/status/123...8534324225

Italy's Sports Minister has said all Serie A games are to take place this weekend & (I think) for the next two months, behind closed doors just wonder how much revenue the Italian clubs would lose by this and should the PL, & EFL adopt the same position? If they did I'm wondering the hit taken would be probably be felt hardest by clubs in the lower leagues. the FA has also said players are now banned from shaking hands before games.

The days of professional clubs in big leagues getting their revenue from gate receipts are well in the past. Clubs these days get most of their money from TV, sponsorships, shirt sales and international marketing. I read somewhere, so this cannot be taken as verbatim, that the increase from latest TV deal for the Premier League meant that clubs could make their tickets free for the entire season & still make a profit from the previous deal.

What this would affect is smaller clubs who do depend on gate receipts because they don't have much of the aforementioned revenue makers with the exception of sponsorship from local small businesses

(07-03-2020 14:14 )southsidestu Wrote:  The days of professional clubs in big leagues getting their revenue from gate receipts are well in the past. Clubs these days get most of their money from TV, sponsorships, shirt sales and international marketing. I read somewhere, so this cannot be taken as verbatim, that the increase from latest TV deal for the Premier League meant that clubs could make their tickets free for the entire season & still make a profit from the previous deal.

What this would affect is smaller clubs who do depend on gate receipts because they don't have much of the aforementioned revenue makers with the exception of sponsorship from local small businesses

If you ask me I have always envisaged the whole TV revenue thing is not as evenly distributed throughout the pyramid of the league as I Often thought it was, and if anything the Bury scenario I fear will happen again if the TV deals are not structured in a way that some part of goes down the chain further.
There is so much money at the top of pyramid, that should be feeding further down the chain maybe the premiership/championship need to start having feeder clubs in lower divisions so that some money from TV deals is distributed better.

Companies should think about where their sponsorship money goes more carefully and should look further down the pyramid to give those clubs a boost. Not only that, those who choose to buy a club should do so as long as they PASS 100% the FA's fit and proper test AND maintain contact with fans of that club and be upfront what is going on.
It has happened too many times when buyer takeover a club they are not 100% upfront and honest with supporters and the FA.

It would be interesting to see if the Premier League followed the NFL system of a more even distribution of money how that would affect the League, as over there with the exception of The Patriots who have been an outlier there is a much broader range of teams that win the Superbowl.

As for sponsors I don't think they are in the business of hand outs, they are a company after all & sports sponsorship is part of their marketing strategy. Why would a big company drop £200m+ on teams like Burnley, Brighton & Bournemouth that all come from small towns that have a combined population of a little over 500,000 as opposed to a London club playin in a city of near 9 million?

50% of the domestic tv money is distributed evenly amongst all teams.
25% is based on where a team finishes in the league.
25% is based on how many of a teams matches are shown on tv.

So the majority is either evenly distributed or based on performances (league finishing position). I think that's relatively fair. The overseas tv rights money is then distributed equally between all teams.

The team that finishes top will earn between 150-160 million quid with the bottom team earning between 90-105 million quid. It's all in the link below if you want a more thorough explanation. Overall the Premier League money is quite fairly distributed.

https://www.sportsjournal.ae/premier-lea...breakdown/

Alan Green, one the most distinctive commentating voices on the BBC, after 45 years is "being phased out". the guy is a commentating legend like Motty, and the BBC say "he no longer fits our profile" I've always enjoy his radio commentaries and shame to think he will no longer be there.