QPR Question of Sport

It was me, it was an amazing experience and bloody funny. Crouch was a superb host and spent so much time with the fans just like all of the other players and staff. Lee Cooks cheats, Geoff Cameron has no idea on our history (not surprising based on his American roots) Joe Lumleys mum is the luckiest person ever as her name was picked out in the raffle draw three times, Joe Lumley gave my daughter signed gloves and Andy Sinton is a bloody nice bloke and wants to give everything for QPR.

Mark Prince gave an emotional talk at the end, the work they are doing is simply amazing. I believe these there was a significant amount raised for the Kiyan Prince foundation. Mark Prince also mentioned that his next event is a boxing night in Camden and called on all fans to come along. I will be there too!

Sounds like you had a 'fan-tastic' experience surrey chad, and I am envious too! 

The club deserve plenty of plaudits for all their efforts in supporting the local Community and in their fund raising activities for ex players and their families. Makes you proud of the club and the fans who contribute to the events. Well done all.

Its part of the Sky deal with the Football league that came into effect this season, where they agreed a £595m five-year TV deal which is 35% increase on the previous contract.

The issue as I see things is that the Championship clubs will always be out voted on any Sky deal with the FL because there are some poorly supported teams in League 1 and League 2 and picking up £75k is a lot of income to them.

Some of the biggest Championship clubs also feel their matches are shown too often, disadvantaging fans and teams - last season, for example, 19 of Leeds United's 46 league games were selected for Sky TV coverage. It has also been suggested that some centrally negotiated deals end up costing clubs money because of the number of tickets they have to give away as a consequence.

What makes things even more appalling is that the deal is miniscule compared to the £4.55bn Sky and BT have agreed to pay to show 180 Premier League games per season from 2019-2.

Last season (2018/19) the pot was £2.33 billion and around half of the new deal. My understanding is that this was all shared between the Premiership teams based on the following;

UK broadcast revenues 

50 per cent equally shared by all clubs

25 per cent shared based on how often a club’s matches are broadcast in the UK (known as ‘Facility Fees’)

25 per cent shared based on where a club finish in the league table (known as ‘Merit Payments’)

Central Commercial revenues 

Equally shared by all clubs

International broadcasting revenues

Equally shared by all clubs

Reported Split of the Cash in 2018/19

Huddersfield 96m
Fulham 102m
Cardiff 103m
Southampton 104m
Brighton 106m
Burnley 107m
Bournemouth 108m
Watford 114m
Palace 114m
Newcastle 120m
West Ham 123m
Leicester 123m
Wolves 127m
Everton 129m
Arsenal 142m
Man Utd 143m
Spurs 145m
Chelsea 146m
Man City 151m
Liverpool 152m

The new deal will see the current Premiership teams almost double their income this season. Teams that manage to stay in the Premiership will continue to get richer whilst the 3 relegated teams will have a huge income advantage to start the Championship. The money doesn't guarantee success for those relegated teams but it certainly helps and will give those teams a huge advantage of promotion.

When I saw question of sport
I thought you meant load of crap on telly with unfunny humour from Phil tuffnell and Matt dawson cracking rubbish jokes and suddenly coming up with an answer for a question about Austrian motorcyclist nobody’s heard of
Tired tired format should of been scrapped years ago

I agree, it is Yikes!

In addition there will be other income streams from merchandise, gate receipts etc.,  etc. I read somewhere that Man Utd take more in merchandising per annum than Southampton take in gate receipts. 

The Saints average gate is 30,000 and if they  charge c. £30/person then over 19 games they would get gate receipts of just over £17m. 

Even in the Premier League there are huge differences, there are the rich teams and the very very rich teams.