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Bloomberg: Apple Considering Bid for English Premier League Streaming Rights in the UK

chenks said:
£15 for F1 only sub, is F1 TV any cheaper?
also, it's included in the main sports package subscription, just like every other sport is included in the subscription.
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Go on, provide a link to where you can get purely Sky F1 for £15 a month with no other requirements. I’ll be waiting.. I’m dying to see this Sky F1 only subscription with no other subscriptions required.
 
ForkHandles said:
"(or football, as it's called outside North America)."

We call it football as it's a game we play with a ball, that you kick with your foot.

I never got why Americans spent all that time correcting English words such as theatre, centre, colour to make them make more sense and then called their ball game, played with hands, football.

Should we start a common sense campaign to rename it to Handball?
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Bit disappointing to get this far down the comments before this argument kicked off again!
 
ForkHandles said:
"(or football, as it's called outside North America)."

We call it football as it's a game we play with a ball, that you kick with your foot.

I never got why Americans spent all that time correcting English words such as theatre, centre, colour to make them make more sense and then called their ball game, played with hands, football.

Should we start a common sense campaign to rename it to Handball?
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The name has it roots in the English naming convention - association football (eventually soccer) and rugby football. When the US colleges switched to rugby football rules, the game became known as football; because well, Americans like simple names and they get a bonus of confusing the English and rest of the world.

Then off course, there’s rugby - which isn’t played on a rug but a pitch or field, shouldn’t it be pitchby or fieldby?
 
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ForkHandles said:
"(or football, as it's called outside North America)."

We call it football as it's a game we play with a ball, that you kick with your foot.

I never got why Americans spent all that time correcting English words such as theatre, centre, colour to make them make more sense and then called their ball game, played with hands, football.

Should we start a common sense campaign to rename it to Handball?
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The English invented both the idea of a game called football that is played with the hands (look up the full names of the governing bodies of rugby in England, you may be surprised) and the term “soccer” for association football. So really it’s more that they forgot their own history.
 
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Pezimak said:
Go on, provide a link to where you can get purely Sky F1 for £15 a month with no other requirements. I’ll be waiting.. I’m dying to see this Sky F1 only subscription with no other subscriptions required.
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don't be facetious
the F1 sub is £15, of course you need other things to view it, just like if you had F1 TV you would need a subscription to internet services to use it.

you didn't answer the question if F1 TV is cheaper (once you include all the other costs you would incur to view it)

don't try and be clever, you can't pull it off
 
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Stella said:
What is the 3pm blackout? I remember the FA cup always used to be at 3pm, but it's long since moved towards the evening at 5:30ish?
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Basically, since the 70s or so, football clubs have been scared of losing their physical attendances if tv showed the games. So there’s been a sort of ban on showing 3pm games (which are generally when most of the games occur on a weekend) on tv.

A few league games a broadcast at 12.30pm or 5.30 but that’s about it. This only applies to Saturday games. I believe the last day of the league is normally on a Sunday in May so some of those league games get broadcast.

The sad thing is, outside of the UK all games are televised every week. So Uk fans who pay for Sky, BT, Amazon etc. which could easily be £50+ a month for every package NEVER get to see all their teams games and will only ever have access to a much smaller subset of matches. Whereas people abroad or who use illegal streams in the UK can see everything and in most cases pay nothing for the privilege.

Which is grossly unfair in my opinion.
 
chenks said:
don't be facetious
the F1 sub is £15, of course you need other things to view it, just like if you had F1 TV you would need a subscription to internet services to use it.

you didn't answer the question if F1 TV is cheaper (once you include all the other costs you would incur to view it)

don't try and be clever, you can't pull it off
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F1 TV is cheaper if you access it via a VPN but I understand people don't always want to do that. It's real simple though on iOS to do so if you want to.
 
ForkHandles said:
"(or football, as it's called outside North America)."

We call it football as it's a game we play with a ball, that you kick with your foot.

I never got why Americans spent all that time correcting English words such as theatre, centre, colour to make them make more sense and then called their ball game, played with hands, football.

Should we start a common sense campaign to rename it to Handball?
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The name should be “Oval Toss” !! 🏈
 
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chenks said:
£15 for F1 only sub, is F1 TV any cheaper?
also, it's included in the main sports package subscription, just like every other sport is included in the subscription.
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It’s £18 add on to your existing Sky package which is £26 so £44. You cannot just get the F1 package on its own from Sky.
 
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chenks said:
don't be facetious
the F1 sub is £15, of course you need other things to view it, just like if you had F1 TV you would need a subscription to internet services to use it.

you didn't answer the question if F1 TV is cheaper (once you include all the other costs you would incur to view it)

don't try and be clever, you can't pull it off
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I don't need to be clever and you don't need to be rude, you just proved yourself that your original comment was totally wrong and FUD. You made something up to try and win an argument, you attempted to portray F1 on Sky being £15 a month as you failed to mention all the additional packages you also require in your original comment.
So yes F1 TV is significantly cheaper than Sky F1. Significantly so. Works out to be about £9 a month or less with VPN charges.
I applaud any big corporation that takes on Sky with its monopoly on sports.
 
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Apple should buy the Premier League, it’d be great. We can have 4 regions, merge a few teams for example Manchester and Liverpool for a northern division.
What an amazing franchise!
I’d probably support the Western division in the play-offs which would be Tottenham, Plymouth and Cardiff together, that’s the future of soccer.
 
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lazyrighteye said:
Nice.
I thought I heard/read somewhere (which likely would have been here at MR) that Apple was interested in, or bidding on, some sort of F1 deal. Anyway, thanks for that update.
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You bet. Every year I think I'd like to subscribe but I haven't yet. But there are in-car cams, all kinds of pretty awesome features.
 
ForkHandles said:
Games were played at 3pm as the players didn't leave the factories in the early 1900s until midday on a Saturday.

The EU would never have mandated one supplier, they existed purely to open up markets, not close them down.
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Yep my mistake. I meant to say mandated more than one supplier.
 
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BMox81 said:
This is great and all but what everyone really wants is the Premier League to provide one service that has all the games.

All this does is potentially add yet another subscription to proceedings which isn’t needed.
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They did, but it was ruled anti-competitive so the Premier League was forced to sell games in separate packages.

So thanks to the law, we all have to pay 3-4 times the amount we used to :rolleyes:
 
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madeirabhoy said:
also i think a lot of that interference from the EU never existed but was invented by Daily Mail and Telegraph journalists. its actually crazy how many Boris Johnson himself was credited with when at the Telegraph. he personally invented the banning of odd shaped bananas, the standardising of condom sizes at a smaller size to make the italians happy, the banning of sausages, the implementing of a standard for manure with EU inspectors going round farms and many more. His whole career as the Brussels correspondent for the Telegraph involved making up stories that made the EU look bad.

I wish the EU had made more of this in the press, up until the UK exited, the EU maintained a searchable database off all the made up british media 'barmy EU beurocrats want to ban....' type articles with the correct information beside it. it ran into thousands of articles.
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The EU doesn’t need much help to make itself look bad. Fine if you live in a country that has milked the subsidies but combine it with the UK civil service and it’s no wonder people voted to leave.
 
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