Sky proving they have zero respect for fans again!!

These are ruining football more and more each year.

I’ve just noticed they’ve put Sunderland and Portsmouth on at 12:30 today. I mean how is that allowed? What’s that a 700 mile journey for Portsmouth fans? Absolutely disgusting, the fa or football league should step in and do something about this instead of reaping the financial rewards.

Now sky do a cracking job on other sports I love like Boxing for example. But it seems to me that they’re messing with fans now just for the craic. No reason at all that game should be 12:30 it’s really disrespectful and I feel but have massive respect for those 800 Pompey fans today. Norwich at Liverpool on a Friday, Middlesbrough at Luton on Friday and today are instants I can think off the top of my head where sky have taken the piss out of fans.

 

In case it’s a surprise to you bears **** in the woods! this has been happening for 25 years. It’s what football authorities sign up for when they pocket the cash.

 

I'd settle for Friday night game at Bournemouth n the odd Sunday game in London for the 200 million for promotion

 

No I disagree personally. If it was on the table that games like Southampton away at half 12 and likewise with all the other long distance games for promotion. They can keep the premier league.

Every game of football should be 3pm on a Saturday. Local games you can just about manage, frustrating but manageable. That today if I was a ponpy fan I would be gutted I couldn’t go.

 

Absolutely spot on. They pretend to have the interests of fans at heart but the reality is that the fans who go through the turnstiles are at the bottom of their list of priorities. They really don't give a flying fig about them.

These Saturday evening games are a joke. Tottenham fans having to travel to Manchester thanks to Sky.

 

If the clubs want the millions and millions of $'s that sky keep dishing out they will play games on the moon at 3am if sky say so.... fans count for nothing and money is everything.

 

There was a survey last year I think, I can’t remember the actual figure but most of the premier league clubs didn’t need fans to pay when attending or pay for a season ticket. They still made a hefty profit from handouts and sponsors alone

 

Premier league clubs can afford to play in empty stadiums, absolutely ridiculous really.

However, Sunderland Pompey is a league one fixture. Disgusting what sky are and have been doing for years. But these last few seasons it seems to be getting more ridiculous in my opinion.

It’s becoming more of us vs them. Us as in the paying public who go games regularly. “F**k sky tv” is been heard in every fixture on the box now.

 

I agree that for the diehard fans it is out of order, but from the clubs' perspective I would imagine that they would prefer this over having a local derby due to potential lost ticket revenues?

I'm not specifically talking about this game, but I would imagine that there will be hundreds of Pompey fans that didn't want to miss the match but are happy they can see it from home rather than do that massive trek regardless of kick off time??

If I was a football club owner and I could choose which games were going to be televised (I know it wouldn't work like this), I would be picking the ones that have the least financial impact.

Just thought i'd provide an alternative spin on things. I have no time for Sky and am in no way condoning their behaviours.

 

What football fans can do to alter this I’ve no idea. Instead of the clubs coining in on the TV games. Instead something should be done to repay the fans who book travel in advance. Some Pompey fans would’ve spent a fortune in travel for today’s fixture when they games were released. Some probably timing it to get into Sunderland for when the Re arranged game would be finished.

Maybe the train company’s and the clubs could arrange special tickets that would be valid for the fixture regardless of time or day? This would help the police too to encourage all fans to use the train I think. In honesty I’ve no idea what the solution is but something needs to be done to help us fans out against these ridiculous fixtures changes.

 

Your point is 100% valid. And in these instants not being able to televise games at 3pm on a Saturday is ridiculous. I mean if it’s to do with impacts on tickets sales, regardless of the time tickets will take a massive hit if the games on the box.

But in today’s instance, both sides of fans would win. Those 800+ traveling up would still be able to use their original plans if the game was 3pm and those choosing to stay at home would also win having to watch the game on the box.

I just wish the fa or football league would get a fans view of this and just see how much sky are effecting football fans all around the country financially and vast majority of it is insured against.

 

I just think in this day and age with the amount of TV money clubs get, fans have to accept that there will be sacrifices. As a fan I'd rather they televise the farthest away game over a local one.

And just to clarify I would love to return to the days of the mid 90s when Barnsley spending 250k on a player was big money, but this isn't going to change.

 

https://www.theaa.com/route-planner/route?from=Portsmouth, Southsea PO4 8RA, UK&to=Sunderland SR5 1SU, UK

this the route plan from the AA... I used the post codes of Fratton Park and The Stadium of Light. I will be interested to see the away attendance figure.

 

Surely the answer could be as simple as fixtures are made, kept secret for a week to allow TV companies plan games and release both at same time,then not allow changes after unless both clubs specifically agree towards end of season.