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Sentanta Sports channel is about to go into administration, it was reported today. They apparently owe the English Premier League over £35 million and the Scottish League over £3 million and because they have run out of cash ….. they can’t pay.
This will possibly bring down several football clubs, when they don’t get their millions.
Sentanta’s business model was based on them selling their TV coverage to pubs & clubs for their big screens.
The pub & club trade has been seriously affected by the recent ban on smoking, which has caused dramatically reduced numbers of ‘drinkers’ resulting in numerous pub & club closures across the country.
Thus Sentanta’s ‘customers’ have all been steadily going out of business – bringing about a major cash flow problem – which in turn is threatening football club’s existence.
Now if the bloody Government and the anti-smoking fascists had only left well alone ………….. !!!!
It just shows that a lot of people value wrecking their lungs with toxic smoke more than they value watching football.
@bassingbourne55 wrote:
It just shows that a lot of people value wrecking their lungs with toxic smoke more than they value watching football.
freedom of choice used to be wonderful, now it’s do as your told.
Agreed PB but also the huge fees that they charge the pubs and clubs to show the games also must be blamed………
My friend who owns a pub had to fork out £18,000 to show the games last year and just can’t afford to do it this year due to less people going out and not spending money :( :(
What about the freedom for non-smokers to be able to breathe relatively clean air when they go to pubs?
@quiet_man wrote:
@bassingbourne55 wrote:
It just shows that a lot of people value wrecking their lungs with toxic smoke more than they value watching football.
freedom of choice used to be wonderful, now it’s do as your told.
you still have a choice… sit in a warm smoke free pub or step outside into the freezing night (more often than not) and smoke..
it works for me!
As a lifelong non-smoker I well remember going to smoke-filled pubs and so I know how much nicer pubs are now for the majority who don’t smoke.
@bassingbourne55 wrote:
As a lifelong non-smoker I well remember going to smoke-filled pubs and so I know how much nicer pubs are now for the majority who don’t smoke.
I hear ya! It’s so much nicer not smelling like an ashtray, and sitting there with my eyes stinging and my asthma triggered all for the sake of having a beer with someone who wants to smoke, and knowing I can take my children out and about without them inhaling other peoples smoke.
This is a touchy subject for me this year anyway as I lost my dad to lung cancer in feb and my gran is terminal with it too at the moment… we are basically waiting for her to die… both former smokers and gran in particular was a barmaid in working man clubs all her adult life so the amount of passive smoking she must have done.. so as far as am concerned its a mugs game – and PB if that makes me an anti-smoking facist so be it! It’s a selfish, anti-social and disgusting habit.
with regard to setanta….
its free with virgin media! lol
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