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Last night at 6pm Houston time (midnight back home in UK) I sat down to watch Sky Sports News:
1. Headline news: Man Utd v Milan - Fair enough
2. EPL, Man City draw at Stoke - Eh, what about Everton in Europe?
3. Championship round up - You are kidding me?
4. League One and 2 round-up - what the fuck???
5. Scottish Cup - Have I missed a day in my life or gone back in time?
I sat through the whole of that Sky Sports News — and the freakin idiotic and irritatingly long Proactive and Bosley "hair-do" adverts until 6:27 when, lo and behold, Fellaini has a serious injury - then, oh yes, by the way, Everton just about beat Sporting Lisbon 2-1!!!! Now we're off for a break — Twattin Proactive and piggin Bosley again... aaaaaaaggh!
Yes, I am paranoid about wanting news about Everton! Yes, we are not the greatest of news for the footballing world! But, hang on a minute......
Everton playing in Europe - shouldn't that be considered bigger news ahead of the EPL, Championship, League's One and Two - and the Scottish Cup???
Can anyone explain this type of reporting??? Was there a media block by Everton, or what? Have Sky News hired the BBC MotD planner full time?
Gerry Quinn, Posted 17/02/2010 at 08:56:40
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Probably the biggest sporting event in the world at the minute is the winter olympics but they have barely got a mention on Sky.
As I said, they promote their own agenda.
They have reporters when the games are on, but as they don’t have any goals for the other comps they gloss over them once the match has ended.
Although, in all fairness, the europa league is a pile of sh*t.
I think Sky Sports News is banned from showing certains things which the Sky News Channel is not similar to BBC and ITV news.
I agree that one of the two fixtures had to be moved to a different night but why the early start?
What possible reason is there for a tea time kick off? Was it done so Everton didn’t clash with the Champion League games?
Tea Time kick off is really hard.
What we wanted was a big European night with Goodison packed to the rafters. There’s something special about Goodison on those nights.
Instead we got a somewhat empty Goodison with a quiet crowd all tired cause they came straight from work.
No atmosphere at all really and I think the players picked up on that and played rather subdooed just like the crowd.
I thought we did alright. If it wasn’t for Distin’s howler we’d be comfortable. Mind you we can’t blame him too much, apparently he always has a nap around tea time!
To return to the thread, have you noticed how much coverage cycling is getting all of a sudden as a result of "Team Sky"?
They also don't show football prior to their precious Premier League.
It read:
Champions League
EPL
Championship
League One
League Two
Scottish Cup
Europa League
I understand that Sky doesnt have the rights for the Europa League but surely that doesnt mean the Europa League now has to come last in their fixture lists?
If they don’t, it may be because of the stage of the competition. What if Liverpool or Everton reach the Europa League final? No coverage whatsoever?
Anyway, a nice point of comparison will be Sky’s handling of the Liverpool game. There’s no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Sky is biased, but maybe commercial bias is the issue here due to the competition, not merely the Sky Four involvement.
As far as I’m aware the BBC have, or are supposed to have, no bias at all. But not even a mention. The Europa league doesn’t really exist. Between all that and the shunted kick off time Moyes should just tell Uefa to get tae fuck, as they say in Glasgow.
Theres about 5 channels that show 2 games each live.
I have Direct TV, but if you don’t check out a local football bar that shows live football, they might have it.
Hope that helps.
Was reading an article on BBC website about this new champs league playoffs thing.
The guy went on to say "Its attractive for ambiotous clubs in and around the top 4 like spurs, villa and city"
Very very sad
we are the best supported so called unpopular club I know...lve made loads of friends over the years thanks to the mighty efc
MK keep up the good work.
As everyone has said, Sky are completely oblivious to any sports event that they cannot show footage of.
Remember rule 1) Title, The Golden Rule...Those who have the gold make the rules.
Which leads directly to...
Rule 2) Applies from the smallest scale to those who have ’power ’ right up to the top Bush Iraq etc etc. which states...
IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT FUCK OFF!!.
Off topic obviously, but, are there any proper football adverts in the UK, from boot companies, Nike, Adidas, Puma, etc? Why is all of their promotion primarily in online video virals when people are obviously viewing matches they can’t see anywhere besides TV. Don’t know if anyone agrees but many of them are really cool. The design standards set by Nike Football especially has made some sweet stuff, especially older Joga Bonito spots. I would love to see those in between news programs or match halftime, why not?
"What possible reason is there for a tea time kick off? Was it done so Everton didn’t clash with the Champion League games?"
Yes, UEFA don’t hide this fact they state it openly. Even more annoying is the fact that they’ve spread out the Champions League games over two weeks to make a clash more likely.
Sky Sports News is basically little more than an advert for Sky Sports, watch with that in mind, not expecting top class sports coverage.
The Liverpool game would get more coverage anyway, despite the outrageous media bias, because nothing else will be happening that night.
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