Starmer urges TNT to make Champions League final free-to-air

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Many of us will be watching it for free either way. Wouldn’t give these greedy broadcasters a penny.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re paying billions for the rights. It’s football that are the greedy bastards.

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  • bob@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The amount of adverts is insane too. Why would I pay an extortianate amount of money to have so many betting adverts thrown at me.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Its got so bad lately. I remember as a child when sports games were on I didn’t see any, then in my teens/early 20s I didn’t watch anything and watching something recently its just endless and so in your face.

      Turns out they allowed gambling advertising in 2007 here.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unhinged. Refusal makes him look weaker, acquiescence makes him appear more interested in kick-the-ball than genocide.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sir Keith: Team, I’m getting hammered by this local election stuff…what do poor people like that can win me favour?

    Team: Fairness in society and upwards economic mobility?

    Sir Keith: No. Football. That’s right. I’ll say something about football. Up the blues, or reds. I meant reds. Up the reds.

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• gl38@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Does anyone else think he wouldn’t give a shit if it wasn’t Arsenal in the final?

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  • leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell he certainly didn’t say anything to TNT about the Villa final last week.

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Panem et circenses

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Caesar urges Colosseum to make Circuses final free to watch

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  Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens (the Annona) as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. In much modern literature, this represents the Annona as a “briberous and corrupting attempt of the Roman emperors to cover up the fact that they were selfish and incompetent tyrants”.[8]

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

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