10-07-2022, 01:17 PM
(10-07-2022, 11:02 AM)mccanmat Wrote: Sour grapes by EFL. BBC are not obliged to bid for every sports rights going - they probably wonder how they justify such a spend for a programme that will be on BBC One at close to midnight - can’t imagine if BBC spent £500,000 for rights to a film they then decide to only show it past midnight.
Well, one other point is that the Beeb are already quite busy most weekends, with the Premier League and also the WSL where they have a live game most weekends. So if they got the EFL rights as well it would just be more football to squeeze in and they wouldn't be able to give it the prominence that the EFL would probably want, so it probably would be poor value for money. Whereas they have much less football in midweek, so the Champions League fits much better.