Phil belyser Sky og konsekvensene av deres flyttinger av Leedskamper.
The aggro between Leeds and Sky must seem odd to outsiders. But in the EFL, Leeds have always felt that they’re worth more to the TV rights deal than the deal is to them.
A decade since Cellino tried to shut the gates on Sky, and still the fight goes on:
https://theathletic.com/5281228/2024/02/18/leeds-plymouth-sky-tv/Not so long ago, an employee of Sky Sports asked a member of staff at Leeds United how the broadcaster should go about making peace with the club’s support. Like clockwork, every televised game involving Leeds was generating chants about Sky, chants no television company would choose to air before the watershed.
The only answer Leeds could offer was this: perhaps stop sending them to Plymouth Argyle at lunchtime on a Saturday, which is precisely where Leeds were yesterday, completing their very concentrated trawl around Great Britain’s south west; so concentrated that Daniel Farke might as well have based his squad out of a party villa in Weston-super-Mare. They covered 2,200 miles in 15 days and, at last, his players are out the other side of a long, long road trip.
