beziersblue said:I presume many of the people who moan about Sky are too young to remember the coverage provided by BBC and ITV before Sky started up. To say it was abysmal would be an understatement.You were given 'highlights of four or five matches (about eight minutes each) after they had shown most of a Rags match.Their attitude was shut up, pay your licence fee and think yourself lucky. The later they could get away with showing the matches the better, they made sure they didn't get in the way off all the rubbish they normally show.
Nowadays they try to pretend that they are the 'home of football', especially Linekar.
I will always be grateful to Sky for breaking the mould. Yes it has become a bit cliched, but I wonder if that is just a need to be constantly updating their coverage now that there is competition from other channels.
As for ESPN, I hate the presenters especially Waddle. They are biased towards the old 'big four' and many of their comments come into the category of the 'bleeding obvious'.
I still watch the channel, but if possible blank out the commentary.
Problem is Murdochs a robbing bastard when it comes to it and compared to the rest of europe we get nailed for prices!
On another note theres some good analysis of the european leagues on ESPN especially the bundesliga