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Doesn't that suppose that internet streaming is a different and valuable market that generates profit on top of tv rights rather than taking revenue from tv. It's not is it? What is the value to the clubs, the FA, The Premier League, the broadcasters or fans in shifting viewers from tv (where we could already watch all of the games if it was of value) to the internet? Clubs - lower ticket sales being on tv every week, all but the top 4 or 5 lose media revenue. The FA - concede further control to clubs than they lost to the Premier league Premier League - concede further control to the clubs. Broadcasters - lose viewers, advertising and subscriptions Fans - Those that go to games - no difference, those that don't can see the same games already available in better quality, but is there the will amongst everyone else to provide that at a reasonable cost? You've based your post on advertising, but half time advertising on Sky Sports is still far less lucrative than it is on ITV...because they don't have the viewing numbers and they generate most of their income via subscription. Subscriptions and advertising would generate even less to 92 separate websites each catering to comparatively tiny audiences.

Drawing a crowd = good

Genuine questions rather than argument for why it can't happen..... Why's it only going to be run through the internet? Why wouldn't Sky just have all the games available on TV? If anything won't income go down rather than up? What was a single package of all PL football on Sky, got split between Sky/ESPN/etc to increase income. If you wrap all that back up into a single package aren't you reducing the income.....or making the cost prohibitive to a single payer? You'd also lose the lucrative highlights package being sold to the BBC which is dependent on them being first to show non-televised goals. If making it internet only means you get round the tv exclusivity deal, how do you stop it devaluing that deal...given that we all use an HDMI out of the laptop? Add to this that we all already watch re-routed streams? Wouldnt most just continue to watch re-routed streams for free? Every game live has been technologically possible for decades, The internet hasn't changed that, but it's not something the clubs, the FA or the TV companies see as cost effective (showing every game) irrespective of medium, and it's not something the genuine (matchgoing)fans want to see, otherwise the will would have been there to provide the service in 1995.

Genuine questions rather than argument for why it can't happen..... Why's it only going to be run through the internet? Why wouldn't Sky just have all the games available on TV? If anything won't income go down rather than up? What was a single package of all PL football on Sky, got split between Sky/ESPN/etc to increase income. If you wrap all that back up into a single package aren't you reducing the income.....or making the cost prohibitive to a single payer? You'd also lose the lucrative highlights package being sold to the BBC which is dependent on them being first to show non-televised goals. If making it internet only means you get round the tv exclusivity deal, how do you stop it devaluing that deal...given that we all use an HDMI out of the laptop?

If you just asset strip and put it into the coffers it's a one time drop in the ocean tbh. Not sure how stuff like the duke of Edinburgh awards scheme get financed at the moment but I'm pretty sure little of the funding comes direct from the royal family wealth. They should be made to use the income from stolen property to contribute to schemes like that....and fund further educational schemes for music, business, sport, arts etc.

Leave it as long as you can lads, get out on the day and you're lucky, leave it a month and you're a hero lavished with offers.

Yee haw! Congratulations you rootin tootin onanistic porn baron

War profiteering isn't very becoming behaviour of a monarch is it?

Can't ever see the family gathering round the PC to watch the match after sunday dinner.

Not Minsor?

ARS Can't imagine he sees himself as the Geordie folk hero he once thought he was with the songs we've been singing this season.

I disagree, he's just never been able to get back anything like what he paid for it. Probably true but i couldnt help but thinking the whole selling charade was just a way of getting the fans off his back. The reality is far more likely to be about money than anything else, as you say. I think you're right there like, all of a sudden after KK left there were buyers lined up (more than 2? ) who were going to re-install KK as manager along with Shearer and so on which was patently just bollocks to shut the fans up in the short-term. The whole Barry Moat thing was a load of shite as well imo. Agree with you both. I say he's never been keen because he's never been close to recouping his losses, and won't be for a long while....even in the Premier League. If he could walk away at a profit I imagine he would. He courted bids, received offers, rejected them, then dropped the asking price at the last moment but only for one individual stooge that never had the money even at the lower price. If he did decide to sell, he's alienated anyone that's shown an interest previously the way he's gone on. The fat chairman who cried wolf tbh.

He's never been keen to sell.

Or is that restricted to the car park between the Strawberry and El Coto, leaving the gallowgate (metro and that) primed for Stadium expansion?

Never knew Sainsbury's bought the land.... http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/commercial-pro...51140-27666003/

Hollister (Abercrombie and Fitch).... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11708637 I should have said "local" company. Nevertheless, a smart lad like you should envisage the scenario. Man/woman goes to press and tells all this, with name of company. Man/woman gets the sack from company. Alternatively, if a muslim is banned from saying prayers 5 times a day, muslim goes to press, cue big scandal about "rights", accusations of "racism", namby pambys out of the cupboard blah blah...... Please explain the difference, as it's the namby pamby's who are causing this shift in attitudes ..... Explain the difference between your 2 imaginary scenarios? To what end? You might as well explain to me why a lad i know that went to a butchers (I'll not say the name) was forced to wear the poppy at knifepoint if he wanted some tripe, while a muslim I know was forced to disguise himself as St Pauls cathedral to survive an attack at the hands of the EDL. Britain gone mad.

I love how he talks to Lembit like he's a proper c*nt. Just tells him to stop talking bollocks. He feels the same way about Linford but is scared to have a pop at him though, the soft shite.

Glad your doing better TR. This place went to shite without you.

Perhaps Leazes is getting confused between ragheeds and chinkies..... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20101110/tuk-p...-p-a7ad41d.html But then, Cameron said "in your face China! Mourn your 50,000 in shame" and wore his poppy wiuth pride, so it can't be that. You're gonna have to provide a link Leazes.

Hollister (Abercronbie and Fitch).... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11708637 remarkably muslim free that article mind Yeah, but apart from that...and A&F not having a majority immigrant staff at all....and them being ok to wear the poppy on rememberance day....and the reason for not wearing it having nowt to do with offending anyone....it's almost exactly the same story.

Hollister (Abercrombie and Fitch).... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11708637

You can request your pig. It says so at the end of the story. It's not the least bit shocking though. A privately owned company made the cost cutting decision to remove a character in a toy rather than having to construct different sets for different territories. If Brits complained about a Korean kitchen set that was being sold here with dogs you could put in the oven, that Korean company might take similar action to protect it's international image. There's no political agenda to it whatsoever. Just a cultural obstacle the company have to tackle in pursuit of profit.

Kate Middleton, the first person to have her finger in Diana's ring since Dodi Al Fayed.

Difference being 90% of threads on RTG are about Newcastle so you should expect the odd Geordie to pop up to make a defence. The only Sunderland threads on here are started by enraged mackems, who desparately want us to care as much for them as they care for us.....but then take a response as bitterness.

The Early Learning Centre have been taking the pigs out of their farmyard toys to avoid offending the Jews and Muslims though Leazes.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11765420 This is exactly why we need to torture some sense into them. Plastic moulded pigs are a British birthright.