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Why Sky Sports News Sucks

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

Thought for the day: If you were an alien that landed on earth and were forced to watch the Sky Sports News program “Through The Night,” would you know that the biggest sporting event in the world waa taking place, the one that happens only once every four years, t ... Continue reading »

17 comments

  • kkfla737

    11 months ago

    No shock there. They are parochial and narrow minded.

    I'm gutted as the US just blew the entire tournament on a stupid (though somewhat) questionable late foul on Holden and a free kick. The Dutch were so out of the match mentally for us to blow it like that is unforgivable.
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  • Michael

    11 months ago

    The other reason Sky Sports doesn't care is because there's no British representative competing. Same thing happened at Euro 2008.
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  • boobie

    11 months ago

    Then why do you people continue to watch Sky Sports News?
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  • Weston

    11 months ago

    Its British media - of course their focus is on gossip and rumors.
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  • kkfla737

    11 months ago

    It is interesting to compare the coverage in different parts of the world of the Olympic Football Tournament.

    In England no coverage at all.

    In Latin America the coverage is massive, and their own club sides are hardly getting any ink

    In Spain, the coverage is minimal but there

    Australia is covering the event very closely. Surprisingly so. Looking at their website the initial coverage is similar to Germany 2006 but I am sure will tail off as the Socceroos are not playing as well in China as they did in Germany.

    In Mexico I have seen articles blaming Hugo Sanchez for Mexico's non qualification (He was fired right after the qualifying tournament ended) and boasts as to how well Sven's side would be doing in China if he had been coaching the team during qualifying. I'll save my commentary on those claims for another time!

    Here stateside, blogs like mine and others have essentially taken a hiatus from covering our domestic leagues to cover the national team's quest for Olympic glory.

    I guess it all depends on where you live how you see this tournament.
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  • Ryan

    11 months ago

    Yeah I agree the American blogs are doing a nice job, it will bet tough for the soccer to get a lot of airtime on TV, as ESPN the major cable sports outlet can only show something crazy like 1 minute of olympic footage a night.
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  • Darlington

    11 months ago

    I am most relieved that the Dutch equalized against the arrogant Americans.

    Here in the states they talk about no football except this olympic football. No Charity Shield coverage or discussion of Championship beginning. All of the American football sites are focusing on this tournament and declaring the USA has never had a better side. Well if the best USA side ever cannot beat the Dutch when they are off they can never be a footballing power.

    You Yanks call it sucker for a reason.
    You suck at footy!
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  • SSReporters

    11 months ago

    @ Darlington, I know, the Netherlands suck, it's not like they were favorites to come out of the group and possibly win the tournament.....nothing like that at all.



    SSN to me is better than SportsCenter, which shoves the Yankees down our throats and Brett Favre 24/7.


    Sky Sports cannot show highlights of events that they do not have the rights to, so that's the reason why that happened.
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  • Anonymous

    11 months ago

    Sky doesn't cover the Olympics or the Euro's they promote the sports they show on Sky. They probably don't have rights to show any from the Olympics.
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  • jm

    11 months ago

    Darlington,

    Are we supposed to take as farce your juxtaposition of the label "arrogrant Americans" and the claim "you will never be good at football"?
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  • Raatzie

    11 months ago

    Please don't feed the troll.
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  • eplnfl

    11 months ago

    SSN sucks. True enough. However, to it's credit, ESPN is not much better. In prior years you hardly knew the Olympics were going on if you watched only ESPN. On the other hand when ESPN gets an event like Euro 2008, they promote the hell out of it. SSN also reflects the generalized lack of interest in the Olympic games in the English media since team GB is not a standout one. Why there isn't more interest in the Olympic soccer matches is strange since as we all know London has the next games.

    As to the US draw v. Holland. Given how it happened it is disappointing. Given what most experts said before the games the US team is doing great and is in a good position to both win the group and advance.

    Why anyone would watch the Community Shield over the USA v. China BB game this morning is hard to understand. I enjoy soccer for the great players and great action and this morning that was on the hard court in China.
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  • Panda

    11 months ago

    True, ESPN does not focus much Olympic coverage on the Olympics on Sportscenter but that is mostly because, people tune in for the highlights of regular sports. If you want Olympics, you go to NBC which is the official broadcaster.

    ESPN is covering the Olympics from every angle, even if they don't give it a whole segment on on SC. If you watch OTL and shows like that, they have stories about it. Their coverage on ESPN.com is massive and they have reporters in the field who report stories on demand online. If there is a big enough story to talk about, they will and they will do it on Sportscenter.

    Sky Sports, on the other hand, has proven time and time again they don't do that. I remember for the Euros they had a couple guys on site and they were spent trying to get interviews with Ronaldo and Scolari because one was leaving England and the other was coming to.
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  • eplnfl

    11 months ago

    Panda:

    ESPN's coverage is`better this year. I implied that in my post. Also, since NBC restricts use of highlights it does become difficult to do a good wrap up show.
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  • David, UK

    11 months ago

    Sky Sports News like Setanta Sports News are platforms to promote their company's premium channels, they do not have the rights to the Olympics and cannot like a traditional News Channel show clips from other channels due to regulatory restrictions, they aren't going to promote the opposition...e.g when Calzaghe is fighting on Setanta SKY are not going to build it up and vice versa with Hatton.

    Sky Sports News is a pretty popular channel and is mainly there for football (soccer) news and highlights which at the end of the day is the number 1, 2 and 3 sport over here!
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  • boobie

    11 months ago

    I hate Sky's graphics. So ugly and mundane looking.
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  • boobie

    11 months ago

    Then they use that theme music from "Requiem for a Dream". Depressing much?
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