Why are the streaming companies, Sky and TNT sports in the UK, dominating football? This could be said of all sports?

The simple answer is that they do it better and they have the finances to make it better. Many people were shocked and upset when Sky bought the rights to the EPL when it first formed. I am old enough to remember when the BBC and ITV dominated the coverage of all Sports, and it just wasn’t perfect. It was terrible.

Initially, there were only three, then four, channels for an extended period. Channel 5 is youngerThere was no thought of buying a 1st Division game until it was too late. ITV showed a first division game on a Sunday a year before the formation of the time by which time Sky was reasonably well established to the extent that they bought the rights when the Premier League was formed.

Even if your channel was not showing on SKY that week, you could ‘follow’ your team on Soccer Saturday, which was/is a show presented formerly by Jeff Stelling, and he would have a team of ex-players watching a featured match.

Each time a goal was scored, they would inform Jeff what had happened and who had scored or missed a sitter. If your game was not big enough for studio coverage, they had a pundit at the game, who would inform Bianca Westwood or Alan McInally of what would happen. This shouldn’t work for a TV program but it does.

It is now anchored by Simon Thomas and he is doing a noble job his own way. The sands of time are constantly changing and the stalwarts of the Stelling are gradually changing, e.g Bianca Westwood, Chris Kamara are changing. Time waits for no man and that is why Sky is superior

Though it not as good as watching Arsenal at the Emirates, first preference, or on Sky, it still kept you in touch. For some reason, I always found that if Phil Thompson was commentating for the Arsenal game, then we would win.

Sky had, and later BT Sport/TNT had a cash cow. People love football, and if they did it terribly, then Sky would be in terrible trouble as they had paid a lot of money into it and it gave people a good reason to buy a Sky, later streaming dish.

They still had their occasional room of ‘duffers’ discussing football on Sundays, even now, such as Keane, Neville, and Carragher, and until recently, Matt Le Tissier and Phil Thompson doing Soccer Saturday. They have introduced Micah Richards and Jill Scott introduced to the commentary team

The evolution of Sky is because they detect the winds of Change far faster than the terrestrial channels. Gary Lineker was only forced out of MOTD for political reasons. He would probably have gone on forever had it not been for his ill-advised tweet. In defence to the BBC, they

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