To as a connected mumsnetter to lobby the govt to make The Champions League Final free to view for all UK citizens?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Football is a working class sport at its heart. No child should be prevented from watching a major sporting final because they can't afford to!

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You seem terribly invested in my non existent horse ownership. And yes I have lived in an inner London council flat, for around three years, albeit decades ago.

You sound just as closed minded as you accuse me of being, quite frankly.

I love cricket and I've watched it for years, my Dad was also a big fan. The hundred is not proper cricket - at least T20 has the proper 6 balls an over! The hundred is ruining test cricket by taking up the whole of August.

I still haven't forgotten Andrew Strauss for saying the hundred is for women and people who want a shorter form of cricket - if someone finds T20 too long then cricket really isn't the game for them!

Are you one of those big team fans who miss about the “agony” of supporting a big team. It must be hard supporting arsenal or Man Utd or Chelsea or Man City said no Coventry, Southend, Sheffield Wednesday, Blackpool or Lincoln fan ever.

Here’s my tiny violin. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I don't get the snobbery though.

Sevens is different from a full 15 player rugby game.
5-a-side and futsal is different from a full 11-a-side football game.
Walking football / cricket is different from regular football/cricket.
Indoor athletics is different from outdoor athletics.

That's fine.
If you only want to watch one form of any sport, crack on.
There will be different people who enjoy a different sport from you.
Some of us like watching all forms of sport. That is okay too.

I'm not sure what people get out of sneering at other people's choices.

I'm not sneering at anyone watching the hundred or any other sport, watch what you like, but when it's ruining other forms of the sport there's an issue.

Keir

🙄 maybe he should speak to the owners of his beloved arsenal instead as they’ll still be expecting their payout however it’s televised

We've got Prince William in our corner and it wasn't free to air for our final.....

I reckon it'll be free to air, the big wigs will backtrack 👀

Well that'll really piss me right off, if Arsenal get that and not Villa and Palace.

Mind you, we know our place. Oh yes, it's double qualified for the champions league.....

They probably will because of the publicity but they’ve made it chargeable for the first time because TNT have lost the rights to Paramount, so they are seeing it as the last chance to squeeze any income possible out of that deal.

It’s nothing to do with Arsenal. TNT own the broadcast rights. They have always obeyed UEFA’s “suggestion” that the finals are free to air. They have disagreed this time, because UEFA have awarded the ongoing rights to someone else.

It remains to be seen whether this is a good way to get publicity and first party data and they are going to make it free to air once they’ve got enough publicity around it, or if they’re trying to maximise income from the rights before they lose them, but it’s not a decision Arsenal or any other team have anything to do with.

No but they could come to a financial agreement with TNT

or uefa could give the rights with it mandated the final is free to view

The Arsenal women’s champions league parade was pretty funny last year, Katie McCabe was very drunk, stole the mic from the tv host and was singing all the players chants while balancing on the railings. I imagine she had a banging headache the next day 🙈

They can’t come to an individual agreement. That would breach both the TNT and the Champions League rules.

UEFA should absolutely have awarded the rights on the basis of the finals being free. The winner has complied with the standard for years and years, though…