Premier League

[wilsdenrover]

Two reasons it will be a pile of shit…

There are no interviewers with the ability to ask any real questions - it will be a load of nonsense like ‘I guess you’re disappointed to be subbed?’

Player media training means any answer given will be what they’ve been told to say not what they really think. 

Because of this, every interview will end up also most identical in its content.

In the meantime, instead of witnessing this, we could have been (outrageous thought I know) been continuing to watch the match. 

 

[arbitro]

10 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Standard practice in America sports and the PL is appealing more to the fans over there and don't forget that NBC Sports in America covers PL over there. NBC's owners Comcast owned Sky aswell

He need a good experience staff around him and a number 2 who is align with him. 

So you are happy to be pandering to an overseas audience by using a gimmick to reach out to them?

For me it's just razzmatazz and has no place in our game.

 

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

So you are happy to be pandering to an overseas audience by using a gimmick to reach out to them?

For me it's just razzmatazz and has no place in our game.

 

It's happens whether F1 or Cricket(sometimes) or NBA now, why not see if it can work in football as it does in those sports. They are speaking to players who have come off not head coaches during a game like the NBA does..

I don't see it pandering but more interact with the audience whether here or overseas 

[Parsonblue]

For me, football sold its soul when clubs broke away from the Football League to form the Premier League.  With each passing year the game seems to move further and further away from the game I was brought up watching 60 odd years ago.

Smaller clubs are penalised for breaking rules whilst the likes of City are charged but never really brought to book - look at what they've spent this summer whilst supposedly in breach of financial regulations.

The financial gap between the Premier League and the rest of the Football League is now so huge that very few clubs, even if they get promoted, are able to survive for more than a season.  Of course, those clubs then come down with huge amounts of money and are at an immediate advantage over the rest of the Championship.

Sky tried - and failed - to make to closing weeks of last season sound thrilling.  We knew who'd won the League and the three relegated clubs long before we got to that stage.  The so called 'excitement' revolved around who finished fifth!

The fact that Tottenham Hotspur, who finished just above the relegation zone, qualified for the 'Champions' League says it all.  The game as many of us knew it is long gone.  Perhaps it's fitting that Sky continues to turn it into more of a circus than it already is.

 

 

[wilsdenrover]

Football has fans not audiences (or it used to anyway).

Edited 4 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[arbitro]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

It's happens whether F1 or Cricket(sometimes) or NBA now, why not see if it can work in football as it does in those sports. They are speaking to players who have come off not head coaches during a game like the NBA does..

I don't see it pandering but more interact with the audience whether here or overseas 

Of course it's pandering. I honestly don't care whether or not it is used in other sports so that to me is irrelevant. 

It doesn't matter who they are speaking to it's the traditions and values which should be protected. 

You intensely dislike VAR but you are happy to accept something like this. It adds absolutely no value to the game.

[Forever Blue]

21 hours ago, davulsukur said:

Andrews has been confirmed as the new head coach at Brentford

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn4lj9gv7lno

He’s got a point to prove

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

Of course it's pandering. I honestly don't care whether or not it is used in other sports so that to me is irrelevant. 

It doesn't matter who they are speaking to it's the traditions and values which should be protected. 

You intensely dislike VAR but you are happy to accept something like this. It adds absolutely no value to the game.

How about letting the game develop and grow? Making fans feel closer to the players and game? 

I dont like VAR for plenty of reasons including slower of decisions, get them wrong, no communication to fans within Stadium and TV audiences. This doesn't slow the game down does it? 

[roversfan99]

Interviewing players after being subbed and footage inside the dressing room. How is that allowing the game to develop and grow? 

I dont get why anyone would want that, who gives a shit what a player thinks after being subbed? And why would anyone want to see inside the changing room? At least VAR has a clear reason, to make decisions more accurate, which it objectively does.

[arbitro]

5 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

How about letting the game develop and grow? Making fans feel closer to the players and game? 

I dont like VAR for plenty of reasons including slower of decisions, get them wrong, no communication to fans within Stadium and TV audiences. This doesn't slow the game down does it? 

How on earth will it develop and grow the game? If might well a few more Sky subscriptions in Philadelphia but it adds absolutely nothing to the game.

I want to watch a game of football not feel closer to the players. It achieves nothing in my view.

VAR gets a lot right too but I agree with your wider point.

[Upside Down]

17 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Standard practice in America sports and the PL is appealing more to the fans over there and don't forget that NBC Sports in America covers PL over there. NBC's owners Comcast owned Sky aswell

He need a good experience staff around him and a number 2 who is align with him. 

That still doesn't change the fact that it's a load of shit.

American sports are a complete pile of wank and their coverage of them is even worse.

Won't be long until we get the five minutes multiball.