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PL chairmen should make these TV games free

Premier League chairmen are today discussing the total failure of the £14.99 PPV charge they hoped we would pay to watch games not included in Sky or BT’s original schedules.
Fans have chosen to give the plan an almost total swerve and according to the BBC have raised £300,000 for charity as a result – good on them.
And here long term CandH Facebook follower Michael Miller sums up precisely why the PL and its chairmen are having to remove egg from their faces at today’s meeting.
He declares: “I think the minds of the Premier League ‘Stakeholders’ (including West Ham and Mike Ashley who voted in favour of the original PPV amount ironically!) have been concentrated by the extremely low take up of PPV.
There’s stories this morning that one of the games had less than a thousand viewers – the argument now seems to be at what the new charge should be set at!
The facts are the PPV games are the less attractive games that Sky and BT have turned their noses up at, it’s not an attractive product. What did the Premier League ‘Stakeholders’ expect if they take the punters for mugs!”
Claretandhugh says: Bang on it Mike. The only mugs here are the hideously greedy PL and the chairmen who voted for this monstrous fee. Whilst we didn’t agree that Vue Cinemas should show the game at all when in these socially distanced days when fans cannot be inside the stadium, at least they got the pricing right at around £6,99. These people are experts in knowing the right price for screenings. Ashley – for all his faults – is right when saying £4.99 is about right to watch at home where no overheads as such are involved. We believe they should be free as they were last season after lockdown. After all, the general public are suffering far more than them from this horrible epidemic.
 

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4 comments on “PL chairmen should make these TV games free

  1. To be fair, the lower league clubs were charging a tenner for their games and nobody complained because people think they could do with the money. So how can the premier league undercut the price of the championship game for instance by half? What the premier league should have done was to say, championship clubs are charging a tenner, we can’t charge the same or undercut them for what is a superior product, so what we’ll do instead is we will donate a percentage of income from these matches to the lower league clubs that are not getting any revenue without the crowds. At least that way people wouldn’t have minded so much having to pay the larger fee if they knew it was helping out the grass roots of the game.

  2. Spot on with the assessment, the games should be free, I know lots of supporter of other clubs all of which have said I am not paying £14.99, if it was £4.99 I would pay it, they would probably even get supporters of other clubs paying it if they were bored and wanted to watch some live football. Let’s be honest when you can go to the opera or have a business lunch with 6 people from different households but you can’t sit outside socially distanced inside a Stadium somethings wrong… get the fans back in (safely) and do these games at £5 a pop for all those that can’t, when football returns to a normal if that ever happens still keep both options open COYI !!!

  3. Agree that the POV is outrageous in the current circumstances. But the comparison with the £6.99 charged by VUE isn’t strictly correct. That game wasn’t PPV but shown by BT Sport and available via a normal BT subscription. By the way it isn’t the only football VUE will be showing they have an upcoming Sheffield Utd v Man City scheduled. I wonder how many will see that in Stratford!

  4. The PL is so out of touch with the average supporter.
    To treat supporters who are either in lockdown,furloughed, lost their job or worried about loosing it with a £15.00 hit is disgraceful.
    They won’t be getting it out of me that’s for sure but as Hammer’s United advise a charity close to our hearts might.

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