Why The ‘We Hate Sky Sports’ Songs?

Monday night is a ****ing **** time to watch football.

 

What a ridiculous comment

So every other club would make top signings etc. But we would be left with the ****. Nonsense

Saturday 3pm kick off moved to Monday 8pm is a joke. Newcastle fans getting back at 2am on a week night instead of 8pm on the weekend

Can not understand this thread one bit

 

This in spades, just got to Crewe and be lucky to be home by 2am, **** Sky!

 

What happened? What were they singing?

 

Yeah I'm still travelling home and no tubes at this time that means cabs. Thanks sky.

Though actually it's the prem's fault for selling out so badly.

 

It's a bit of NIMBY-ism. We all want the Sky money but without any of the inconvenience on our own shoulders.

 

totally disagree. I'm a season ticket holder in London and these kick-offs are causing havoc

 

Monday night is such a **** time for a game. Is it the weekend still, no, not really. Most people have been to work all day, and have work all day the next day, but suddenly you're rushing home to get changed and get into town or whatever, no chance to have much to drink, this time of year it's freezing cold, sometimes wet/snowy. But it's OK because Carragher and Neville can draw pretty patterns on an iPad for an hour before the game. And who in their right mind thinks Wolves v Newcastle is gonna be a fun game to watch as a neutral. Have you not watched Newcastle this year!?!?

 

In the minority here, but I like these Monday/ Friday kick offs.

Saturday 15:00 means I leave just before lunch and get back after 19:00 so no time to do anything either side of the kick off.
Mon/ Fri 19:45 frees weekend time with family and means I just need to bunk out of work an hour early.

 

Since New Year's Day we've had

Palace (H)- Tuesday night
Liverpool (H)- Monday night
Man City (A)- Monday night
West Ham (H)- Tuesday night
Shrewsbury (H)- Tuesday night
Newcastle (H)- Monday night

Compared to:

Leicester (H)- Saturday dinnertime
Shrewsbury (A)- Saturday 3pm
Everton (A)- Saturday 3pm

3 weekend matches and 6 weeknight matches. OK fair enough the Shrewsbury replay had to be the weeknight, but that's still ridiculous.

 

Don't see any difference between a Monday night kick off and the Tuesday/ Wednesday night kick offs we used to have in the champ or (dare I say it) if we get into Europe ...

West Ham game was a Tuesday night and had nothing to do with sky, we've been on Monday night football twice this year, hardly worth moaning about is it.

 

Playing Monday night is no different to playing Tuesday or Wednesday night matches which we’ve played since the dawn of time.

We played more midweek games in the Championship and league 1. Don’t see the problem.

 

It’s playing Monday instead of Saturday 3pm , not instead of Tuesday 7:45 ....

 

Problem is it takes away fans , and a lot of home fans , hours to get home - and a lot can’t make it due to the change.

 

The same Sky money that has divided football into the haves and have nots, that has provided an unlevel playing field for over 25 years? The money that Leicester won the Premier League in spite of (we were all left wondering how they had bested the big six), but means that the same is unlikely to happen again? The Sky money that means that the loyal fan is treated as just another revenue stream rather than the reason for the club's/game's existance?

Sure, we get to see Moutinho, Neves, Boly, Paticio, Dendoncker, Jota (etc. etc.) in a Wolves shirt, but we need to sign players of this quality just to try and compete and besides, were it not for Fosun, we'd still be watching Edwards, Saville etc.

There was football before Sky, and it wasn't always the same old procession at the top of the table. Ask Forest fans, Ipswich fans, Villa fans.

Apologies for the rant, but no, we don't ALL want the Sky money. Football sold it's soul in the early 90's.

 

In general, I agree Andy. However, this weekend it was good to see all the other teams behind us drop points except for Watford (how good would it have been if that had been a draw) and then wait for our match. Pity we only drew but just for once I enjoyed the anticipation of this fixture.

 

Hypocrites don't want Monday night football because it affects their drinking time but bet they all watch when it's other teams who are on.

Only have to see how many comments the today's matches thread gets.

 

Maybe its the archaic NO football live at 3pm that needs addressing.

Personally I love night games, but we have had a lot this season it needs to be fair.

 

I am very annoyed that we've had fixtures rescheduled to Monday night in three of the past six weeks (albeit one was a cup game and not Sky's doing). I would hope we'll be spared this for the foreseeable future. We all know midweek games in the Champ are a necessity because of the additional 8 league fixtures, but having a game that could've easily been played on Sunday afternoon is annoying, and would have given the travelling Geordies a fair drive home. Three or even four games on Sunday was commonplace until recently.

 

It's the PL that dictate the TV times they sell the packages for, not Sky. Monday night could have ended up the BT slot, or whoever.

Sky were just the successful bidder and the PL only sells the packages the clubs themselves vote to put up for tender.

The way the packages are sold teams end up having to fulfil the minimum quotas in all the TV slots, so it's inevitable at the start of the season as a PL side you will end up playing on a Monday at least once (and 4 times at most).

The BBC choosing the Liverpool cup game for Monday didn't help, mind.

 

I don't get your logic, because if we don't get Sky's millions then neither would anyone else, so it's all relative isn't it? And if no one is paying billions for the Premier League tv rights then more than likely no one is paying huge money for Spain or Italy tv rights either. All those players would still have been born if Sky hadn't had bid for the football in the 90s, they'd just be available for lower fees and wages.

We sell our soul to the devil, then give him a pat on the back for making it more difficult to win trophies.

Well done to anyone who tried to get the song going.

 

Personally, if it was one or the other I'd prefer FNF to MNF, at least Friday night is heading in to the weekend, rather than going back to work for a day, then playing our "weekend" game.

Friday 8pm
Saturday 12:30pm
Saturday 5:15pm
Sunday 12:00pm
Sunday 2:15pm
Sunday 4:30pm

Surely that's enough time slots for the 4 or 5 televised games each weekend, and at least it falls within the weekend if you aren't playing Saturday 3pm.

The reality is, they'd love to have football televised every day of the week and if they could I'd be fairly certain they'd have the PL "weekend" spread from Thursday night to Wednesday night with a game a night through the week 2 on a Saturday and 3 on a Sunday all televised. The reason that doesn't happen is only because it can't due to scheduling and other competitions.

 

Those idiots in S2 were singing 'if you're watching on the telly you're a ****' and 'time to go, **** off' at fellow Wolves fans last night.

****ing mutants.

 

Good

Support the team for 90 minutes fickle *******s

 

It was a Monday night you ****ing cretin. Loads of people had a good reason to leave early.

 

I miss actually playing on a Saturday, didn’t get in till 2:30am yesterday. There’s the fun factor this season but if this goes on for 2-3 seasons where we barely have a 3pm Saturday kickoff, I can see it grinding people down.

 

I get home at 2am from every home night match... Welcome to supporting Wolves while living in London

 

Super fan strikes again. How about you spend the time and effort that many people do in supporting Wolves while shutting your ****ing big trap you arrogant ****! Who the hell do you think that you are lecturing others you utter and complete self-absorbed prat.

 

"Time to go" was being sung as a Newcastle player was taking five minutes to be substituted as far as I could tell.

 

Nah, they were literally singing straight at the folk walking up the S2 stairs.

 

I thought that too but l was in SBU so...

 

Fair enough. I did join in the song a little as I thought is was about the substitution, so at least one person was singing about that

With regards to leaving early, I can completely understand if you have to travel a distance, but unless you have to, I have no idea why you'd leave early with this Wolves team.

 

Agreed fully. Going back to London for example the options are trains at 2145 or 2245. I get the later one and don't get home until 0200 but folk who have an early start the next day....

 

Yes mate, I live in London too, and thankfully I can now work from home, which I do in Wolverhampton around midweek games. Before that I'd just have to miss the games.

 

Roaaarrrrr

 

I've sold half my season ticket knowing full well I can't attend half the games. The alternative is picking and choosing games with no guarantee I'd get tickets. Had my season ticket for twenty years, it's what I do on a Saturday (ocassionally) with my mates. I'm not giving my seat up.