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Date Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 12:40:14pm
Author: Same Old Story
Author Host/IP: webdefence-pool-02.cluster-lonb.forcepoint.net / 85.115.53.202
Subject: I'm obviously not making my point well - character count doesn't help. Inside.
In reply to: ASPT 's message, "They have more fans everywhere. Incl in England. The tv execs have access to precise viewing figures and decide which games to subsequently play accordingly. It’s surely that simple no?" on Tuesday, October 01, 12:11:33pm

More fans everywhere including England is irrelevant. Its only England that is relevant in relation to what is televised in England (4th time on the thread now).
I'll clarify that now i have more space. There is an 'international broadcast fee paid which is distributed across the clubs evenly, with a slight bias for merit (ie placing). There is then the facility fee, which is paid for domestic, televised games. There is no merit element to this - each club involved gets 900k - 1.1m (depending on timeslot). For (final) clarity, it is this facility fee that I believe is unfairly managed, as it clearly favours certain teams.
Now, to your point about fans - They may have the most fans individually, (haven't seen any recent figures in relation to this) but there are more fans who don't support them - which is my point. Lets say - and i think i'm being generous here - that 5% of the population (1 in 20 people) supports Manchester United - that means that 95% do not.

If those games are not attractive to anyone other than the Man U fanbase due to saturation of the product - then thats a much bigger number of people turned off of watching, rather than those turned on by it. By pandering to the 5%, you're slowly disenfranchising the 95%.
In terms of your last point, you'd imagine it to be that simple, but it could equally (simply) be pro united execs making the calls, no?
All of which doesn't include the more emotive point that teams shouldn't get an advantage to something not based on any kind of merit, and that they have no realistic control over. They're basically being given money equivalent to our entire seasons gate reciepts because 'more fans innit' - and that just seems wrong in these days when certain clubs are constantly battling restrictive FFP/PSR practices.

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