[Football] La Liga game in Miami

[Freddo]

If they ever tried to move one of our home league games abroad, I would hope there would be huge protests against it. For me it would be as bad as the Super League proposal.

 

[Javeaseagull]

Sounds very unlikely given that the total population is around 345 million. That would be more than 1 in 5 watching.

I would have thought that your figures make it more than likely! I am not sure of the figures as it was just something I saw on the telly but it made sense to me in that we are told it is the most watched football on the planet. The USA has a lot of people from all over the world that love their football and other sports. They even have a cricket league ffs. It’s a big country and thus a big market. They also have the World Cup coming up in 2 years. I can see them getting into it after all these years of FIFAl trying to break into that market.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I would have thought that your figures make it more than likely! I am not sure of the figures as it was just something I saw on the telly but it made sense to me in that we are told it is the most watched football on the planet. The USA has a lot of people from all over the world that love their football and other sports. They even have a cricket league ffs. It’s a big country and thus a big market. They also have the World Cup coming up in 2 years. I can see them getting into it after all these years of FIFAl trying to break into that market.

One in five watching would be absolutely incredible in the literal sense of the word.

This is from a US sports media site at the end of last season:

The 2023/24 Premier League season was the most watched campaign ever in the US, with broadcaster NBC reporting an average audience of 546,000 and 2.9 million viewers on the final day of the campaign.

 

[Javeaseagull]

One in five watching would be absolutely incredible in the literal sense of the word.

This is from a US sports media site at the end of last season:

The 2023/24 Premier League season was the most watched campaign ever in the US, with broadcaster NBC reporting an average audience of 546,000 and 2.9 million viewers on the final day of the campaign.

Oh OK. The guy from EFL must have been talking bollox then. Sorry.

 

[dwayne]

So we could potentially cede home advantage to play Liverpool or Man City in downtown Detroit.

Yeah. Great.

*slow handclap*

Yer obviously Detroit would be awful, but Miami in December wouldn't. Simples.

 

[pigmanovich]

The 39th game didn't work - someone gets Southampton and someone gets Arsenal - so what could we do to get away with it? I know! 2 games abroad. If the fans complain about integrity? Well, the fairest way is ALL games abroad innit.

Nah, just make the two overseas games dead rubbers between mid table sides with nothing to play for

 

[BadFish]

And, we're really not taking this climiate crisis thing seriously as a species are we

Keep rinsing out though bean tins brother. We are making all the difference.

 

[BadFish]

So we could potentially cede home advantage to play Liverpool or Man City in downtown Detroit.

Yeah. Great.

*slow handclap*

You can be damn sure they wouldn't be giving up their home games.

 

[Easy 10]

Yer obviously Detroit would be awful, but Miami in December wouldn't. Simples.

I don't care if it was played on the shores of the Copacabana. The whole concept of franchising one or more of our PL games abroad is offensive.

 

[dwayne]

I don't care if it was played on the shores of the Copacabana. The whole concept of franchising one or more of our PL games abroad is offensive.

To you.

Just footie not NFL

 

[Easy 10]

To you.

Just footie not NFL

I don't care much about NFL. They routinely franchise their teams all over the shop anyway, its nothing new.

Football means more.

 

[Triggaaar]

I don't like it