ITV screw clubs and fans again

By Nathan Jackson
August 4 2004

Rather than saving money from cutting off shows that no-one watches, i/e day time tv. ITV have decided to cut off all coverage of the football league highlights and now the only chance the likes of Lincoln, Scunny and Grimsby will get to see their highlights, is on Sky.

Terrestrial Television Channel, ITV has annoyed lower league clubs again by taking off all of the football highlights they shows. So in other words, the only chance that football fans without the Sky Sports channels had to watch their team's goals in the form of "Goals on Sunday" and "Football League Extra" has gone.

ITV has been looking to cut costs so has decided to get rid of shows about the most popular pastime in the country to make way for day-time TV. This will seriously annoy fans as ITV have now totally abandoned a lot of clubs after it's digital company has lead to a lot of clubs facing annihilation. Thankfully, no club went out of business thanks to ITV Digitial's collaspe.

Now, the only chance football league fans (i/e fans who stick with their club no matter what and aren't totally consumed by wealth - with the exception of Hull) will be to watch Sky Sports on Sunday afternoons to watch Football League Review which is also repeated throughout Monday.

Sky has also screwed over League 2 yet again showing only 1 match before Christmas and that being Wycombe vs Oxford. This is yet again proof that Sky Sports just don't like League 2. Last season, they claimed League 2 didn't have enough quality but they fell head over heels for the conference. Also, last season's playoffs saw every single semi finals from the Championship and League 1 shown yet the ties between Lincoln and Huddersfield aswell as Mansfield vs Northampton were ignored and only our league's final was shown.

Sky's live match schedule is available HERE but don't expect to see any Lincoln matches anytime soon.