PL chairmen should make these TV games free
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.