So this is about what sport Chizz feels is important.
No, it's not what I feel is important.
If it was what *I* thought was important, this wouldn't be the order of sports on the BBC Sport home page today...
You are confusing media hype and column inches with public popularity.
For weeks I have had to scroll through 6 or 7 pages of Rugby in the sports section of the Times to get to the one or two football pages. Not for a second did I think 'Rugby is getting as popular as football'. And despite the hype I can honestly say I could not name one of the current England rugby first team or recognise one if they walked through my front door now!
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
There was a higher attendance for the Gaelic Football match today than for the England-Fiji match.
Is there a reason why you excluded this event from your list of sports that leave football in the shade?
No reason other than I was unaware of it.
OK.
Can you apply that logic for rugby, tennis and F1? Obviously you're aware of them, but how about other people around the world? For the tennis and F1, you wouldn't need to look around the world - within the UK would be enough.
I've read this post a few times and I'm honestly baffled as to what is you're asking.
You were unaware of an event that would have been very big for its fans, even though its attendance was higher than the rugby match you cited as the main sporting event of the weekend.
Do you think there might be a large number of people who were unaware of the Davis Cup semi-finals, Rugby World Cup and Singapore Grand Prix? For the RWC, you might have to look worldwide, possibly to any one of the biggest 8 nations in the world. But for the Davis Cup and Singapore Grand Prix, it wouldn't be hard to find many many people in the UK who don't know/care about them. I was only aware of the Davis Cup because of a thread on here. I saw an ad for the Singapore GP, but it could have been next week or whenever, I didn't pay attention to the ad.
Just because these other events were bigger for you than the Premier League matches doesn't mean that the same applies to others.
Going back to the Gaelic Football match. It was the final, so the biggest Irish sporting event of the year. I walked past an Irish pub today in a European city. It had a blackboard outside listing which sporting events would be on the TV screens through the day. All three Premier League matches, obviously.
Those events weren't bigger, for me. They are just more important, globally, than the three Premier League matches. That's why the football results and stories were widely relegated below those other three on the news, on newspapers, on websites, etc.
I wanted to highlight where it seems obvious - to me, at least - that the Premier League's "crown" as the world's best-loved sporting competition has slipped. Formula 1 has a massive following across Europe and is dramatically increasing in the far east. The RWC is of more importance this week, this month and next month, than the Premier League. Next Saturday, for instance, the Premier League will again be relegated by the media below the RWC. Even the tennis (tennis! No-one bothers with tennis!) got more column inches and TV news time than most of the Premier League items on the news.
List of the 8 largest countries of the world, population in millions
China 1372 India 1277 United States 322 Indonesia 255 Brazil 205 Pakistan 191 Nigeria 182 Bangladesh 159
From this list of countries - total population just under 4 billion persons - can you please estimate the number of people who would be interested in the Rugby World Cup?
Also, please estimate the number of people who would be interested in a Davis Cup semi-final between Great Britain and Australia.
Or how many British people were watching the Davis Cup semi-final between Belgium and whoever.
This thread is entirely about what you think is more important or more interesting. You just don't seem to be aware of your own bias.
You're wrong. I think football is more important than tennis, in at least fifty weeks every year. However, the newspapers, news websites and TV and radio news broadcasts have "demoted" the Premiers League this weekend to a position lower than tennis, than F! and than rugby. Is that so hard to comprehend?
Yet you still can't understand the ridiculous comparison you're making, someone gave you proper stats earlier in the thread, yet you've chosen to ignore that.
This isn't apples and oranges at all, it's more like apples and rabbits.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
There was a higher attendance for the Gaelic Football match today than for the England-Fiji match.
Is there a reason why you excluded this event from your list of sports that leave football in the shade?
No reason other than I was unaware of it.
OK.
Can you apply that logic for rugby, tennis and F1? Obviously you're aware of them, but how about other people around the world? For the tennis and F1, you wouldn't need to look around the world - within the UK would be enough.
I've read this post a few times and I'm honestly baffled as to what is you're asking.
You were unaware of an event that would have been very big for its fans, even though its attendance was higher than the rugby match you cited as the main sporting event of the weekend.
Do you think there might be a large number of people who were unaware of the Davis Cup semi-finals, Rugby World Cup and Singapore Grand Prix? For the RWC, you might have to look worldwide, possibly to any one of the biggest 8 nations in the world. But for the Davis Cup and Singapore Grand Prix, it wouldn't be hard to find many many people in the UK who don't know/care about them. I was only aware of the Davis Cup because of a thread on here. I saw an ad for the Singapore GP, but it could have been next week or whenever, I didn't pay attention to the ad.
Just because these other events were bigger for you than the Premier League matches doesn't mean that the same applies to others.
Going back to the Gaelic Football match. It was the final, so the biggest Irish sporting event of the year. I walked past an Irish pub today in a European city. It had a blackboard outside listing which sporting events would be on the TV screens through the day. All three Premier League matches, obviously.
Those events weren't bigger, for me. They are just more important, globally, than the three Premier League matches. That's why the football results and stories were widely relegated below those other three on the news, on newspapers, on websites, etc.
I wanted to highlight where it seems obvious - to me, at least - that the Premier League's "crown" as the world's best-loved sporting competition has slipped. Formula 1 has a massive following across Europe and is dramatically increasing in the far east. The RWC is of more importance this week, this month and next month, than the Premier League. Next Saturday, for instance, the Premier League will again be relegated by the media below the RWC. Even the tennis (tennis! No-one bothers with tennis!) got more column inches and TV news time than most of the Premier League items on the news.
List of the 8 largest countries of the world, population in millions
China 1372 India 1277 United States 322 Indonesia 255 Brazil 205 Pakistan 191 Nigeria 182 Bangladesh 159
From this list of countries - total population just under 4 billion persons - can you please estimate the number of people who would be interested in the Rugby World Cup?
Also, please estimate the number of people who would be interested in a Davis Cup semi-final between Great Britain and Australia.
Or how many British people were watching the Davis Cup semi-final between Belgium and whoever.
This thread is entirely about what you think is more important or more interesting. You just don't seem to be aware of your own bias.
Scary the populations of India and China.
I can't speak for the other countries but it's my understanding that china's actual population is a lot higher than official stats show.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
There was a higher attendance for the Gaelic Football match today than for the England-Fiji match.
Is there a reason why you excluded this event from your list of sports that leave football in the shade?
No reason other than I was unaware of it.
OK.
Can you apply that logic for rugby, tennis and F1? Obviously you're aware of them, but how about other people around the world? For the tennis and F1, you wouldn't need to look around the world - within the UK would be enough.
I've read this post a few times and I'm honestly baffled as to what is you're asking.
You were unaware of an event that would have been very big for its fans, even though its attendance was higher than the rugby match you cited as the main sporting event of the weekend.
Do you think there might be a large number of people who were unaware of the Davis Cup semi-finals, Rugby World Cup and Singapore Grand Prix? For the RWC, you might have to look worldwide, possibly to any one of the biggest 8 nations in the world. But for the Davis Cup and Singapore Grand Prix, it wouldn't be hard to find many many people in the UK who don't know/care about them. I was only aware of the Davis Cup because of a thread on here. I saw an ad for the Singapore GP, but it could have been next week or whenever, I didn't pay attention to the ad.
Just because these other events were bigger for you than the Premier League matches doesn't mean that the same applies to others.
Going back to the Gaelic Football match. It was the final, so the biggest Irish sporting event of the year. I walked past an Irish pub today in a European city. It had a blackboard outside listing which sporting events would be on the TV screens through the day. All three Premier League matches, obviously.
Those events weren't bigger, for me. They are just more important, globally, than the three Premier League matches. That's why the football results and stories were widely relegated below those other three on the news, on newspapers, on websites, etc.
I wanted to highlight where it seems obvious - to me, at least - that the Premier League's "crown" as the world's best-loved sporting competition has slipped. Formula 1 has a massive following across Europe and is dramatically increasing in the far east. The RWC is of more importance this week, this month and next month, than the Premier League. Next Saturday, for instance, the Premier League will again be relegated by the media below the RWC. Even the tennis (tennis! No-one bothers with tennis!) got more column inches and TV news time than most of the Premier League items on the news.
List of the 8 largest countries of the world, population in millions
China 1372 India 1277 United States 322 Indonesia 255 Brazil 205 Pakistan 191 Nigeria 182 Bangladesh 159
From this list of countries - total population just under 4 billion persons - can you please estimate the number of people who would be interested in the Rugby World Cup?
Also, please estimate the number of people who would be interested in a Davis Cup semi-final between Great Britain and Australia.
Or how many British people were watching the Davis Cup semi-final between Belgium and whoever.
This thread is entirely about what you think is more important or more interesting. You just don't seem to be aware of your own bias.
Scary the populations of India and China.
I can't speak for the other countries but it's my understanding that china's actual population is a lot higher than official stats show.
without wanting to sound too callous, I understand there is nothing physically that can be done, but that's not great.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
There was a higher attendance for the Gaelic Football match today than for the England-Fiji match.
Is there a reason why you excluded this event from your list of sports that leave football in the shade?
No reason other than I was unaware of it.
OK.
Can you apply that logic for rugby, tennis and F1? Obviously you're aware of them, but how about other people around the world? For the tennis and F1, you wouldn't need to look around the world - within the UK would be enough.
I've read this post a few times and I'm honestly baffled as to what is you're asking.
You were unaware of an event that would have been very big for its fans, even though its attendance was higher than the rugby match you cited as the main sporting event of the weekend.
Do you think there might be a large number of people who were unaware of the Davis Cup semi-finals, Rugby World Cup and Singapore Grand Prix? For the RWC, you might have to look worldwide, possibly to any one of the biggest 8 nations in the world. But for the Davis Cup and Singapore Grand Prix, it wouldn't be hard to find many many people in the UK who don't know/care about them. I was only aware of the Davis Cup because of a thread on here. I saw an ad for the Singapore GP, but it could have been next week or whenever, I didn't pay attention to the ad.
Just because these other events were bigger for you than the Premier League matches doesn't mean that the same applies to others.
Going back to the Gaelic Football match. It was the final, so the biggest Irish sporting event of the year. I walked past an Irish pub today in a European city. It had a blackboard outside listing which sporting events would be on the TV screens through the day. All three Premier League matches, obviously.
Those events weren't bigger, for me. They are just more important, globally, than the three Premier League matches. That's why the football results and stories were widely relegated below those other three on the news, on newspapers, on websites, etc.
I wanted to highlight where it seems obvious - to me, at least - that the Premier League's "crown" as the world's best-loved sporting competition has slipped. Formula 1 has a massive following across Europe and is dramatically increasing in the far east. The RWC is of more importance this week, this month and next month, than the Premier League. Next Saturday, for instance, the Premier League will again be relegated by the media below the RWC. Even the tennis (tennis! No-one bothers with tennis!) got more column inches and TV news time than most of the Premier League items on the news.
List of the 8 largest countries of the world, population in millions
China 1372 India 1277 United States 322 Indonesia 255 Brazil 205 Pakistan 191 Nigeria 182 Bangladesh 159
From this list of countries - total population just under 4 billion persons - can you please estimate the number of people who would be interested in the Rugby World Cup?
Also, please estimate the number of people who would be interested in a Davis Cup semi-final between Great Britain and Australia.
Or how many British people were watching the Davis Cup semi-final between Belgium and whoever.
This thread is entirely about what you think is more important or more interesting. You just don't seem to be aware of your own bias.
Scary the populations of India and China.
I can't speak for the other countries but it's my understanding that china's actual population is a lot higher than official stats show.
without wanting to sound too callous, I understand there is nothing physically that can be done, but that's not great.
Can we all agree that football hasn't "jumped the shark" in terms of doing things differently in a desperate attempt to get the punters in, like putting on cheerleaders, and letting birds of prey fly around stadiums etc......erm....oh hang on....
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
There was a higher attendance for the Gaelic Football match today than for the England-Fiji match.
Is there a reason why you excluded this event from your list of sports that leave football in the shade?
No reason other than I was unaware of it.
OK.
Can you apply that logic for rugby, tennis and F1? Obviously you're aware of them, but how about other people around the world? For the tennis and F1, you wouldn't need to look around the world - within the UK would be enough.
I've read this post a few times and I'm honestly baffled as to what is you're asking.
You were unaware of an event that would have been very big for its fans, even though its attendance was higher than the rugby match you cited as the main sporting event of the weekend.
Do you think there might be a large number of people who were unaware of the Davis Cup semi-finals, Rugby World Cup and Singapore Grand Prix? For the RWC, you might have to look worldwide, possibly to any one of the biggest 8 nations in the world. But for the Davis Cup and Singapore Grand Prix, it wouldn't be hard to find many many people in the UK who don't know/care about them. I was only aware of the Davis Cup because of a thread on here. I saw an ad for the Singapore GP, but it could have been next week or whenever, I didn't pay attention to the ad.
Just because these other events were bigger for you than the Premier League matches doesn't mean that the same applies to others.
Going back to the Gaelic Football match. It was the final, so the biggest Irish sporting event of the year. I walked past an Irish pub today in a European city. It had a blackboard outside listing which sporting events would be on the TV screens through the day. All three Premier League matches, obviously.
Those events weren't bigger, for me. They are just more important, globally, than the three Premier League matches. That's why the football results and stories were widely relegated below those other three on the news, on newspapers, on websites, etc.
I wanted to highlight where it seems obvious - to me, at least - that the Premier League's "crown" as the world's best-loved sporting competition has slipped. Formula 1 has a massive following across Europe and is dramatically increasing in the far east. The RWC is of more importance this week, this month and next month, than the Premier League. Next Saturday, for instance, the Premier League will again be relegated by the media below the RWC. Even the tennis (tennis! No-one bothers with tennis!) got more column inches and TV news time than most of the Premier League items on the news.
List of the 8 largest countries of the world, population in millions
China 1372 India 1277 United States 322 Indonesia 255 Brazil 205 Pakistan 191 Nigeria 182 Bangladesh 159
From this list of countries - total population just under 4 billion persons - can you please estimate the number of people who would be interested in the Rugby World Cup?
Also, please estimate the number of people who would be interested in a Davis Cup semi-final between Great Britain and Australia.
Or how many British people were watching the Davis Cup semi-final between Belgium and whoever.
This thread is entirely about what you think is more important or more interesting. You just don't seem to be aware of your own bias.
You're wrong. I think football is more important than tennis, in at least fifty weeks every year. However, the newspapers, news websites and TV and radio news broadcasts have "demoted" the Premiers League this weekend to a position lower than tennis, than F! and than rugby. Is that so hard to comprehend?
Yet you still can't understand the ridiculous comparison you're making, someone gave you proper stats earlier in the thread, yet you've chosen to ignore that.
This isn't apples and oranges at all, it's more like apples and rabbits.
Which type of apples....it can make a big difference to the above
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
There was a higher attendance for the Gaelic Football match today than for the England-Fiji match.
Is there a reason why you excluded this event from your list of sports that leave football in the shade?
No reason other than I was unaware of it.
OK.
Can you apply that logic for rugby, tennis and F1? Obviously you're aware of them, but how about other people around the world? For the tennis and F1, you wouldn't need to look around the world - within the UK would be enough.
I've read this post a few times and I'm honestly baffled as to what is you're asking.
You were unaware of an event that would have been very big for its fans, even though its attendance was higher than the rugby match you cited as the main sporting event of the weekend.
Do you think there might be a large number of people who were unaware of the Davis Cup semi-finals, Rugby World Cup and Singapore Grand Prix? For the RWC, you might have to look worldwide, possibly to any one of the biggest 8 nations in the world. But for the Davis Cup and Singapore Grand Prix, it wouldn't be hard to find many many people in the UK who don't know/care about them. I was only aware of the Davis Cup because of a thread on here. I saw an ad for the Singapore GP, but it could have been next week or whenever, I didn't pay attention to the ad.
Just because these other events were bigger for you than the Premier League matches doesn't mean that the same applies to others.
Going back to the Gaelic Football match. It was the final, so the biggest Irish sporting event of the year. I walked past an Irish pub today in a European city. It had a blackboard outside listing which sporting events would be on the TV screens through the day. All three Premier League matches, obviously.
Those events weren't bigger, for me. They are just more important, globally, than the three Premier League matches. That's why the football results and stories were widely relegated below those other three on the news, on newspapers, on websites, etc.
I wanted to highlight where it seems obvious - to me, at least - that the Premier League's "crown" as the world's best-loved sporting competition has slipped. Formula 1 has a massive following across Europe and is dramatically increasing in the far east. The RWC is of more importance this week, this month and next month, than the Premier League. Next Saturday, for instance, the Premier League will again be relegated by the media below the RWC. Even the tennis (tennis! No-one bothers with tennis!) got more column inches and TV news time than most of the Premier League items on the news.
List of the 8 largest countries of the world, population in millions
China 1372 India 1277 United States 322 Indonesia 255 Brazil 205 Pakistan 191 Nigeria 182 Bangladesh 159
From this list of countries - total population just under 4 billion persons - can you please estimate the number of people who would be interested in the Rugby World Cup?
Also, please estimate the number of people who would be interested in a Davis Cup semi-final between Great Britain and Australia.
Or how many British people were watching the Davis Cup semi-final between Belgium and whoever.
This thread is entirely about what you think is more important or more interesting. You just don't seem to be aware of your own bias.
Scary the populations of India and China.
I can't speak for the other countries but it's my understanding that china's actual population is a lot higher than official stats show.
without wanting to sound too callous, I understand there is nothing physically that can be done, but that's not great.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
Worldwide viewing figures won't be in your favour, the Premier League is massive around most countries in the world.
If you're really expecting the Davis cup to be beating Football in the ratings you'll be disappointed.
Is it? Still? Will there be more people watching the Premier League today than the GP? Or the World Cup?
The point is this - the Premier League's smug presumption that "everyone watches English football" may be increasingly inaccurate.
Almost as inaccurate as your smug presumption that they don't. If you extrapolate the average viewing figures - TV and actual attendances - across all the sports you mentioned and over a year-long period, the others will be miles behind football. And that is a fact.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
I am not a rugby fan but surely you would expect the rugby matches to be the highest attended games as it is a World Cup. If people are losing interest in football then it is probably because of the antics that twats like Costa bring to the game.
The point of the thread is to highlight the extent to which Premier League football has plummeted in terms of importance and how it has captured the public's imagination and share-of-wallet.
I seem to remember (whether this is true or not) the Premier League was always the most important or one of the most important two events of any weekend. This weekend it seems not to be in the top three. Is it going to keep plummeting?
Comparing the pinnacle international tournament of one sport with the day-to-day domestic fixture list of another is vacuous and pointless. What proof do you have that fewer people are watching today than say, three years ago? Absolutely none whatsoever. And if you did, you'd expect that to be evidenced by a reduction in TV money to Premier League clubs. That's happened, right? Oh, no, it hasn't.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
I am not a rugby fan but surely you would expect the rugby matches to be the highest attended games as it is a World Cup. If people are losing interest in football then it is probably because of the antics that twats like Costa bring to the game.
The point of the thread is to highlight the extent to which Premier League football has plummeted in terms of importance and how it has captured the public's imagination and share-of-wallet.
I seem to remember (whether this is true or not) the Premier League was always the most important or one of the most important two events of any weekend. This weekend it seems not to be in the top three. Is it going to keep plummeting?
Comparing the pinnacle international tournament of one sport with the day-to-day domestic fixture list of another is vacuous and pointless. What evidence do you have that fewer people are watching today than say, three years ago? Absolutely none whatsoever. And if you did, you'd expect that to be evidenced by a reduction in TV money to Premier League clubs. That's happened, right? Oh, no, it hasn't.
Yesterday, the Premier League wasn't among the three most important sports in British media.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
I am not a rugby fan but surely you would expect the rugby matches to be the highest attended games as it is a World Cup. If people are losing interest in football then it is probably because of the antics that twats like Costa bring to the game.
The point of the thread is to highlight the extent to which Premier League football has plummeted in terms of importance and how it has captured the public's imagination and share-of-wallet.
I seem to remember (whether this is true or not) the Premier League was always the most important or one of the most important two events of any weekend. This weekend it seems not to be in the top three. Is it going to keep plummeting?
Comparing the pinnacle international tournament of one sport with the day-to-day domestic fixture list of another is vacuous and pointless. What evidence do you have that fewer people are watching today than say, three years ago? Absolutely none whatsoever. And if you did, you'd expect that to be evidenced by a reduction in TV money to Premier League clubs. That's happened, right? Oh, no, it hasn't.
Yesterday, the Premier League wasn't among the three most important sports in British media.
That's uncommon.
However, is it becoming increasingly more common?
What media???
It was in the popular Sunday papers, social media and Sky TV.
A run of the mill set of Premier League fixtures still got as much coverage on the BBC and ITV news as all the other 'big' events you speak of as well.
I don't see why the football is less important than the F1. It's rubbish to watch nowadays and a prime example of a sport that has jumped the shark.
It would be interesting to see the relative worldwide viewing figures for those four sports this weekend. There are millions of F1 fans across Europe and Asia who, this weekend, couldn't care less about English football. That's got to be a worry for the Premier League.
Likewise, this same weekend, the highest attendance have been for rugby matches, not football matches.
If football is losing out to other sports in terms of tv and live audiences, does that mean it's time for change?
I am not a rugby fan but surely you would expect the rugby matches to be the highest attended games as it is a World Cup. If people are losing interest in football then it is probably because of the antics that twats like Costa bring to the game.
The point of the thread is to highlight the extent to which Premier League football has plummeted in terms of importance and how it has captured the public's imagination and share-of-wallet.
I seem to remember (whether this is true or not) the Premier League was always the most important or one of the most important two events of any weekend. This weekend it seems not to be in the top three. Is it going to keep plummeting?
Comparing the pinnacle international tournament of one sport with the day-to-day domestic fixture list of another is vacuous and pointless. What evidence do you have that fewer people are watching today than say, three years ago? Absolutely none whatsoever. And if you did, you'd expect that to be evidenced by a reduction in TV money to Premier League clubs. That's happened, right? Oh, no, it hasn't.
Yesterday, the Premier League wasn't among the three most important sports in British media.
That's uncommon.
However, is it becoming increasingly more common?
Maybe in The Daily Chizz. I've just had a little look at The Mail and The Sun, and your claim doesn't stack up (again).
I may be wrong as I don't have any interest in car racing, but is F1 popular in the US. I thought it was all NASCAR.
My local paper's sports pages are full of Canadian Football (i.e. our equivalent of the NFL), Ice Hockey & Baseball. The Premier League however is pretty popular & easy to access on TV - the same in the States where NBC carries games every weekend. I would say it is rapid;y getting ever more popular this side of the pond - along with the MLS (which is getting more & more professional in the way it is covered & broadcast).
I didn't even realise the Rugby World Cup was on until this weekend & Canada has a team competing - not much coverage that I have noticed & I would imagine the interest level is even less than Canadian Cricket - which benefits from the large Asian populations in the major cities.
Tennis - who knows? It's kind of always on a minor Sports Channel any time of the day or night - it might be the same match for all I know.
I may be wrong as I don't have any interest in car racing, but is F1 popular in the US. I thought it was all NASCAR.
My local paper's sports pages are full of Canadian Football (i.e. our equivalent of the NFL), Ice Hockey & Baseball. The Premier League however is pretty popular & easy to access on TV - the same in the States where NBC carries games every weekend. I would say it is rapid;y getting ever more popular this side of the pond - along with the MLS (which is getting more & more professional in the way it is covered & broadcast).
I didn't even realise the Rugby World Cup was on until this weekend & Canada has a team competing - not much coverage that I have noticed & I would imagine the interest level is even less than Canadian Cricket - which benefits from the large Asian populations in the major cities.
Tennis - who knows? It's kind of always on a minor Sports Channel any time of the day or night - it might be the same match for all I know.
Not relevant, sorry. Chizz isn't talking about the actual global media or the opinions/priorities of actual people around the world.
I may be wrong as I don't have any interest in car racing, but is F1 popular in the US. I thought it was all NASCAR.
My local paper's sports pages are full of Canadian Football (i.e. our equivalent of the NFL), Ice Hockey & Baseball. The Premier League however is pretty popular & easy to access on TV - the same in the States where NBC carries games every weekend. I would say it is rapid;y getting ever more popular this side of the pond - along with the MLS (which is getting more & more professional in the way it is covered & broadcast).
I didn't even realise the Rugby World Cup was on until this weekend & Canada has a team competing - not much coverage that I have noticed & I would imagine the interest level is even less than Canadian Cricket - which benefits from the large Asian populations in the major cities.
Tennis - who knows? It's kind of always on a minor Sports Channel any time of the day or night - it might be the same match for all I know.
I was all ready to say something patronising like 'ahh now many countries develop some sort of rugby-esque national football and this is one of the sillier ones'
but then I noticed that the game had no rules and was a grand chaotic free-for-all with a really heavy ball that makes everyone fall over
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If it was what *I* thought was important, this wouldn't be the order of sports on the BBC Sport home page today...
For weeks I have had to scroll through 6 or 7 pages of Rugby in the sports section of the Times to get to the one or two football pages. Not for a second did I think 'Rugby is getting as popular as football'. And despite the hype I can honestly say I could not name one of the current England rugby first team or recognise one if they walked through my front door now!
This isn't apples and oranges at all, it's more like apples and rabbits.
Regardless of social policy, immigration etc
Case dismissed.
That's uncommon.
However, is it becoming increasingly more common?
It was in the popular Sunday papers, social media and Sky TV.
A run of the mill set of Premier League fixtures still got as much coverage on the BBC and ITV news as all the other 'big' events you speak of as well.
My local paper's sports pages are full of Canadian Football (i.e. our equivalent of the NFL), Ice Hockey & Baseball. The Premier League however is pretty popular & easy to access on TV - the same in the States where NBC carries games every weekend. I would say it is rapid;y getting ever more popular this side of the pond - along with the MLS (which is getting more & more professional in the way it is covered & broadcast).
I didn't even realise the Rugby World Cup was on until this weekend & Canada has a team competing - not much coverage that I have noticed & I would imagine the interest level is even less than Canadian Cricket - which benefits from the large Asian populations in the major cities.
Tennis - who knows? It's kind of always on a minor Sports Channel any time of the day or night - it might be the same match for all I know.
I was all ready to say something patronising like 'ahh now many countries develop some sort of rugby-esque national football and this is one of the sillier ones'
but then I noticed that the game had no rules and was a grand chaotic free-for-all with a really heavy ball that makes everyone fall over
now I like it very much