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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 13 Nov 19 1.30pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

...and give way to other spectator sports ?


Football is massively dominant across the whole planet at present. Will that strength increase or decrease ? Places like Japan, China, India etc are not noted for being as football-crazy as Latin America.

I heard a rumour that rugby has massively stolen a march on Football in France.

Then we have new sports like UFC

Darts has followed improvements in television technology and was difficult to screen many decades ago.

some interesting data below on the most popular Olympic Sports for viewers...

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Edited by PalazioVecchio (13 Nov 2019 1.36pm)

 


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View Ginger Pubic Wig's Profile Ginger Pubic Wig Flag Wickham de L'Ouest 13 Nov 19 1.42pm Send a Private Message to Ginger Pubic Wig Add Ginger Pubic Wig as a friend

it's not hard to imagine it waning here. I think we've seen peak tv spend, especially for non-elite clubs. were that to reverse significantly, I think there could be a palpable sense of decay. good players leaving, more and more tv saturation for diminishing returns...a bad spiral

 


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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 13 Nov 19 1.50pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

when you are on top of the World, the only way is down.


as has been discovered by :

- the 15th Century Catholic church
- the 19th Century British Empire
- the 1975 American military superState in Vietnam
- Microsoft
- Ford Cars
- the 1988 Soviet Union
- U2
- Town centre retailers

 


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View SW19 CPFC's Profile SW19 CPFC Flag Addiscombe West 13 Nov 19 2.01pm Send a Private Message to SW19 CPFC Add SW19 CPFC as a friend

Originally posted by Ginger Pubic Wig

it's not hard to imagine it waning here. I think we've seen peak tv spend, especially for non-elite clubs. were that to reverse significantly, I think there could be a palpable sense of decay. good players leaving, more and more tv saturation for diminishing returns...a bad spiral

Esports are growing fast. Audiences are already massive, and although they might not make a noticeable dent in the short term, long term there will be a big shift towards them as Gen A get older. As Deloitte puts it

'Perhaps the really key piece of the puzzle when it comes to the potentially impending domination of esports is, as Deloitte observed in a recent report, that there is a “young demographic of digital natives who are less engaged with TV and professional sports than previous generations” that esports broadcasters can tap into.'

It's not just football that will be threatened by this – although most premier league teams already have an esports franchise and UEFA recently launched an esports Champions League. In a world where kids will gravitate more towards affordable entertainment streamed across platforms like twitch, mixer, stadia and who knows what to come, live sport will have to find a way of co-existing. Slightly depressing IMO but somewhat inevitable.

Edited by SW19 CPFC (13 Nov 2019 2.03pm)

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 13 Nov 19 2.39pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

In the 1980s Italy was king of football the stadiums were packed and they had a TV deal which pre-dates the Premier League.

Then they hit the doldrums and fans started to pick and choose their games because of the cost. Milan derbies packed to the rafters, Milan versus a smaller team 20,000.

I can definitely see that happening in this country if they keep shaking the money tree. I believe the current TV deal was not an increase on the previous one and that the PL had trouble selling one of the packages.

So yes maybe in a few years fans will have enough, that plus wall to wall football practically every day well I like Christmas but every day?

 


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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

when you are on top of the World, the only way is down.


as has been discovered by :

- the 15th Century Catholic church
- the 19th Century British Empire
- the 1975 American military superState in Vietnam
- Microsoft
- Ford Cars
- the 1988 Soviet Union
- U2
- Town centre retailers

Sorry, I don't see what you've posted here has to do with football/sport in general?

 


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View JohnB's Profile JohnB Flag 13 Nov 19 3.22pm Send a Private Message to JohnB Add JohnB as a friend

Personally, I've already started to watch less football over the last few years.

I'll happily watch Palace, although that's not exactly riveting at the moment, but outside of that I'm really not that bothered by other games anymore. I find the over hyping by Sky for games like City Liverpool or their Super Sundays makes me even more unlikely to watch and even England games, which I used to never miss, I find I'm very nonchalant about.

UFC I used to watch all the time, but even that has started to lose my interest with the top fighters of old, that also had personality, disappearing. I would only really want to watch Nate these days. If Chuck Lidell came out of retirement, I'd watch it in a heartbeat!

 

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 13 Nov 19 5.03pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Originally posted by eagleman13

Sorry, I don't see what you've posted here has to do with football/sport in general?

all power corrupts. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

I believe that the behaviours of many footballers makes the game less enjoyable to watch today when compared with 20 or 30 years ago.

Especially all the cheating and diving. Also time-wasting by teams that are one goal up. Mourinho's legacy. Win at all costs. Play Boring football and sod the spectators.

 


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View Ginger Pubic Wig's Profile Ginger Pubic Wig Flag Wickham de L'Ouest 13 Nov 19 6.27pm Send a Private Message to Ginger Pubic Wig Add Ginger Pubic Wig as a friend

rugby is an amazing sport with great values. football lacks core values -- the money, the cheating, the diving, the aggressive culture can destroy the game here. but football has the advantage of far better infrastructure.

 


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View Pete53's Profile Pete53 Flag Hassocks 13 Nov 19 10.49pm Send a Private Message to Pete53 Add Pete53 as a friend

The popularity of football could wane if it continues to be milked to death with endless TV coverage.

There is something to be said for rationing exposure but of course whilst the gravy train is till on the tracks that won't happen. As the saying goes , familiarity breeds contempt, and an endless diet of football on an almost daily basis may well be beyond the appetite of even the most enthusiastic follower.

 

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View dreamwaverider's Profile dreamwaverider Flag London 14 Nov 19 1.02am Send a Private Message to dreamwaverider Add dreamwaverider as a friend

Originally posted by eagleman13

Sorry, I don't see what you've posted here has to do with football/sport in general?


Surely what eagleman is doing is showing that nothing lasts forever.

 

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Originally posted by JohnB

Personally, I've already started to watch less football over the last few years.

I no longer watch any football if it doesn't involve Palace although I did recently watch Wales when they had three Palace players in the side

 

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