by Guest Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:43 am
Definately at the top end. Sky has killed football for the working class supporters, the football even sometimes helped them getting through the week having something to look forward to.
The game has moved away from a working class event and is now in the grasps of day-trippers and corporate ticket holders who don't really have the passion the working-class bloke has.
It does make me feel lucky i guess watching a League 2 club, we haven't been priced out of football. Although things are getting expensive down here. This weekend if i wanted to watch Hereford Away at Gillingham the match ticket would cost £23 and the cost of travel is over £25, nearly £50 to watch League 2 football without food and drinks in the pub included has put alot of working class people (like me) off watching our clubs away from home now and then.
Sky is hated alot down here in the basement divisions we are stuggling for fans, trying to make ends meet. You look in the pubs around the city and there are more people there in their shirts from JJB's watching sky sports than who are actually at the football ground, supporting the city/town's club.
One last gripe from me about sky is they have degraded the lower league supporter. You would meet people and they ask who you support and the answer is Hereford United, they find it funny or procede to ask "who your proper club is". Go back to before sky sports was blasting out premiership football everywhere and you would find people wouldn't bat an eyelid at you supporting your local team but sky has brought in a sense of attatchment for people to clubs they shouldn't have an attatchment to but now have developed due to the fact you can sit on your ass and watch top class football and not have make the trip to your local football team, who are the one who really need the support of the city.
Can't be bothered to type more because of the time but this is a subject that gets alot of people frustrated.
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