How much are you prepared to pay for Football?

[Alex]

Just dont think its value for money. Consider it £300 for a calender year. Then also £120 for BT Sport.

Id rather let the smaller games slip and pay for the bigger ones.

[Daniel 7]

Yeah, it isn't value for money at all.

I don't enjoy watching other teams play, why would I? Football in itself is a saturated, over exposed, ubiquitous tedium - its the sporting equivalent of Hello magazine. I watched the Real v Barca game on Sunday and that was the first game not involving Liverpool (or Aberdeen on the very few occasions I have bothered) that I have watched in a long time.

[Muddled]

I'd love to pay less, but I dont mind paying what I do.

I watch the majority of Premier League football, the Champions League, some La Liga, Fish O'Mania, the Weber Cup, various flog tournaments, darts, NFL, Rugby League and whatever else may be on if I have some down time.

£25 for all that? Why not.

And that's ignoring F1, cricket and Australian aerobics.

[Chazza]

Fish O'Mania

[dom9]

I'd love to pay less, but I dont mind paying what I do.

I watch the majority of Premier League football, the Champions League, some La Liga, Fish O'Mania, the Weber Cup, various flog tournaments, darts, NFL, Rugby League and whatever else may be on if I have some down time.

£25 for all that? Why not.

And that's ignoring F1, cricket and Australian aerobics.

You pay £25 per month on TV? Surely it's twice that?

[Muddled]

I'm not sure how it's calculated, but I often cancel Sky Sports for the summer and it knocks £20 off my bill. £20 for basic Sky, £20 for Sky Sports and £20 for Sky Movies was my rough maths, I just threw an extra fiver at it.

[dom9]

Do you ever watch the basic channels which aren't available on Freeview? If not, then the cost of watching football is £40 for you.

[Muddled]

Sky Atlantic, National Geographic, Discovery, Psychic Today and Fox.

[dom9]

Interesting.

[Muddled]

I knew you were going to say that.

You can't get that kinda foresight without Psychic Today ... it's well worth £20.

[dom9]

I knew you were going to say that.

You can't get that kinda foresight without Psychic Today ... it's well worth £20.

Yep, they saw you coming, so to speak.

[Muddled]

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Anyway, I've quit smoking, I no longer go out drinking every weekend and I'd easily spend £60 in one night. In my mind, it's not to the detriment to my standard of living, so at least it's going to something I enjoy. Roll on Fish O'Mania XXII

[RedReet]

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Anyway, I've quit smoking, I no longer go out drinking every weekend and I'd easily spend £60 in one night. In my mind, it's not to the detriment to my standard of living, so at least it's going to something I enjoy. Roll on Fish O'Mania XXII

That's my recent justification for Sky. Yes, it could be cheaper and yes corners could be cut by me to save money, but I look at some of the other crap I spend money on every month and compare it to something I use every day in life, then there is no contest.

£80 p/m can seem a lot in isolation, but it's the equivalent of a night out as you say, and I don't even enjoy nights out any more.

[ChrisDR1968]

I paid Rupert Murdoch through the nose from 1993 to 2010 to watch the sports he hijacked from normal free television and some of the documentary channels I used to enjoy watching (Seconds From Disaster/Air Crash Investigation etc. on the Discovery and History channels).

Since then I've been content to watch the free to air channels and stream the sport I want to watch online that isn't on free tv

Can't say I've missed the premium Sky channels at all tbh as I generally look at my lappy screen more than the tv screen these days anyway

[BobTheCharmer]

I paid Rupert Murdoch through the nose from 1993 to 2010 to watch the sports he hijacked from normal free television and some of the documentary channels I used to enjoy watching (Seconds From Disaster/Air Crash Investigation etc. on the Discovery and History channels).

Since then I've been content to watch the free to air channels and stream the sport I want to watch online that isn't on free tv

Can't say I've missed the premium Sky channels at all tbh as I generally look at my lappy screen more than the tv screen these days anyway

Fair play. Something isn't right though,when people choose to hunch over a laptop with the obvious health implications that has, to relaxing on your sofa watching the very device designed to view programmes on. I'm guilty too at times.