That was before my time (I was minus 4 years old at the time) but all we get from this game is how Schumacher teared apart Battiston. Looked an epic game though. Yup. Aachen/Kiel on Saturday and driving down to Saarbrucken on Sunday for an early kick-off vs Nürnberg. Two Buli Drei grounds that are close to the border that I wanted to do. Shame Münster isn't playing at a better time, would have liked to tick that ground off too!
Are Ousmane Dembélé and Bradley Barcola coming on at 71’ to uneven the score in that Viper’s Den known as Le Havre… …enough to generate much interest in PSG, much less Ligue 1? And…quite a disappointing effort out of Lyon, after the mountain they improbably climbed last season to qualify for Europa League play this season.
Caught some highlights from matchday 1. Apparently the coverage from DAZN is terrible BUT they may get Serie A rights so that could change a lot of things.
Over here, and I don’t think I missed it…no weekly Ligue 1 highlight show on late Monday afternoon. So that’s a big step down.
It's amazing to see how Dazn is hated everywhere. In Italy they took Serie A from Sky paying a lot of money and now they ask something like 45 euros per month. #DAZNOUT is trending like every day here. Ligue 1 has no coverage at all here, Sky Italia showed PSG and some Marseille games when you had Messi/Mbappe/Neymar but they are saying if Dazn France get Serie A, Dazn IT could possibly get Ligue 1 and show Marseille (because of De Zerbi a few matches would be seen here). I hope so, since I have to pay Dazn lol
Quite interesting information that. Lots of people are watching football via IPTV (some box that enables you to have every channel in the world for just 6€/month) nowadays and it has been more successful since DAZN entered the frame and asked 30-40€ a month just to watch Ligue 1. Nobody's going to pay that of course so it doesn't look like their stay in France is going to last (just like MediaPro & Amazon). We are seeing light at the end of the tunnel though as the league's elections are coming soon and one of the candidates is Cyril Linette who worked a long time at Canal Plus so chances are he could get the league and Canal wedding back on track which is really what French football devastatingly needs!
Same here, piracy is getting more and more popular for football fans since Dazn got the rights. They barely manage to earn something because according to the last informations Dazn IT has only 2 million subscribers (Sky Calcio had 4.5/5 million). You can take everything away from an italian except "calcio" which here is like a religion, so they take advantage of the fact that there will always be a lot of people here (including me lol, I admit it) who will spend unreasonable amounts of money just to watch the games. But the drop is really hard.
See that's the big difference between the big leagues and France, we're just not a football country. People will watch the big tournaments in June and PSG in the CL but that's about it. If Italians only get 2M subscribers then I doubt we'll make it past 200k (and I'm being generous). DAZN is bad news for football right now.
Yeah but I don't know if in UK and Germany is the same, because like in France people follow a lot of sports (Rugby, Cricket for example). Here it's all about football, people literally live for football and you would never hear anyone talk about a sport other than football. if you are a child in Italy and you don't play football but you play another sport you are considered almost a "loser" lol. Maybe Spain is a bit similar (?). I'm not considering F1 and MotoGp because I'm talking about team sports. I don't know if it's a good thing, I think that in France sport is more developed also for this reason.
There are a lot of sports in the UK with a big following, but football is comfortably the biggest, and a lot of people will follow multiple sports, so there are big overlaps in who watches different sport.
That's a situation I'd like to have also here, people here will watch football 100% then F1/MotoGp and now some tennis just because of Sinner. But you'd never hear a conversation about a tennis match lol The main topic here aside from political issues is football starting from Monday at work till the next Sunday. During the summer is the transfer market.
In Germany we don't follow Rugby and Cricket (I know you mean the UK) Football is clear #1 in Germany as teamsports in TV and also in the stadium (we love going into the stadium, the 1.Bundesliga was (at least before Corona) the football league with the biggest league crowd average/matchday worldwide in the last 10-15 years, actually even the 2.Bundesliga is in the top10 in Europe in league average, they just have overtaken Ligue 1 last season and Serie A and La Liga are in "reachable" distance because more and more big clubs are going down into 2nd tier ) After Football there's long time "nothing" and then comes Handball/Icehockey/Basketball/Fieldhockey on the same level but nowhere near Football. edit: As for DAZN: I hate it (even more than Sky).
Wieso? What's your experience with them? Interesting to see what foreigners think of it as it is mostly unknown here.
I think Sky is the best, I have Sky since 2004 and they show every sport I like and here they have a lot of very good pundits. When they get something they show it in the best possibile way. I don’t know how is in Germany, but here in Italy the quality is very high.
The TV quality of Sky Germany is also very high that's not why I don't like the PayTV channel. It's that they nearly have all the Leagues in their portfolio and for people who can't afford the subscription prices anymore it's only a few "crumbs of bread" they "graciously" let the free channels show (but in Germany the free channels aren't free either because every households has to pay a monthly tv and radio fee of, actually, 18,36€. For example, the Champions League is divided between DAZN/Sky/Amazon prime. And all want their subscripton fees. The "free" TV actually can only show the CL final. At least the matches of the Nationalmannschaft are still at the free tv channels and they have regularly the biggest viewing figures of all tv broadcasts
Interesting, same here, you have to pay 90€ every year for "free" channels. And like Germany the Champions League is divided between Sky/Amazon Prime (only one match per week including an italian team, all the rest is Sky), but the difference is that there are a few sporting events that must be broadcast on free channels by law, for example UCL/EL/CL matches that involves italian teams starting from semi-finals. For example two years ago Amazon Prime was forced to sell TV rights to a free channel for the UCL semi-final Milan-Inter. Anyway, we are off topic I guess ahaha But it's interesting to know how these things works in different countries.
I forgot to mention that the EL/ECL matches of the German teams are also shown in free tv but not the CL anymore (only the final). And yes, also some sporting events have to be shown on free tv by law, the mentioned German national team matches btw or the Olympics Anyway, that all has nothing to with France and Ligue 1 (btw: Ligue 1 is shown live on DAZN in Germany )
OL scared themselves back to life after going down 1-3 to visiting Strasbourg soon after halftime, didn’t they?
