trousers Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9912919/which-is-the-most-watched-premier-league-team-in-your-area
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Hardly surprising that the teams whose games are shown most often are the ones who are most watched.
trousers Posted 22 July, 2015 Author Posted 22 July, 2015 Who did Bristolians watch ? Liverpool (according to the article prose).
trousers Posted 22 July, 2015 Author Posted 22 July, 2015 Hardly surprising that the teams whose games are shown most often are the ones who are most watched. I don't recall Leicester, West Brom, Swansea or Newcastle being on as much as the Man Utds, Chelseas and Arsenals of this world.... edit: but, agree, it's a bit of a subjective survey
St Neel Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 The Outer Hebrides seem to be mainly populated by Leicester City fans. That's odd.
Saint_clark Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Liverpool fans in Cornwall we always knew it, now we have proof.
angelman Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Hardly surprising that the teams whose games are shown most often are the ones who are most watched. Yup, typical nonsensical article that so proliferates the "press" these days and is aimed at people who are thick as 2 short planks. Not sure where the figures are, but Liverpool, Man Utd etc were televised something like 27-30 times. We on the other hand were the usual 11-13 times.
VectisSaint Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Just goes to prove who has the most plastics. There is a reason why I don't watch Saints live very often on Sky. Its because I'm at the match. If Sky have got this data from my viewing habits they will probably have concluded that I am an Arsenal supporter. Shows how wrong statistics can be. Leicester and West Brom fans would apparently rather watch their team live on Sky than go to the game.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 The Outer Hebrides seem to be mainly populated by Leicester City fans. That's odd. Yes very odd - as is that small enclave of West Brom fans in Hertfordshire.
Pancake Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Yes very odd - as is that small enclave of West Brom fans in Hertfordshire. Eh? Can't see any reference that that.
Shroppie Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Hardly surprising that the teams whose games are shown most often are the ones who are most watched. This. You can only watch what Sky put in front of you! Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk
Shroppie Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 The Outer Hebrides seem to be mainly populated by Leicester City fans. That's odd. There are probably 4 Sky subscribers in the Outer Hebrides of whom only one has ever watched a football game, and it happened to be Leicester. Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk
Bartosz Bialkowski Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Looks like I was the only one who assumed they would have divided the total viewers by the number of games shown to get a 'viewers per team' number? Obviously it would be meaningless otherwise.....?
Shroppie Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Don't Sky specialise in meaningless statistics and rumours designed to encourage bets on things that probably won't happen? And these "statistics" justify the games they choose. Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk
Bartosz Bialkowski Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 I honestly dont think they would be so stupid to use the total viewers number, because thats obviously flawed. You can only watch whats on. They need to divide by games shown, simple. If they have done that, then its a sorry state of affairs. Why do people crave association with success so much that they'd rather support a team from Lancashire than the one up the road!
Fan The Flames Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Cue Turkish to bang on about our catchment area.
St_Tel49 Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Hardly surprising that the teams whose games are shown most often are the ones who are most watched. Yep - it is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy and one of the more pointless statistics published.
scotty Posted 22 July, 2015 Posted 22 July, 2015 Cue Turkish to bang on about our catchment area. Turks has probably used up his three posts today. These northerners aren't made of money, I bet he's gone native.
Saint Fan CaM Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Interesting from a "that's stupid" point of view. As someone has said, there is a bias towards what Sky transmits AND if it's a Man U home game, how do they know that the watcher is not actually there to watch their own away team and not Man U? Basically a meaningless bit of propaganda bull.
Miltonaggro Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 A somewhat subjective and self-serving research methodology, flawed on a number of levels; about 68! How very SKY...
The9 Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Even with Man U being massive and all, years of Southampton wandering has taught me that down here Arsenal are the second most popular team behind Saints based on "probably better than Sky's methodology" shirt sightings.
hutch Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Fair play, a novel approach to getting all those clickbait words in one single article.
Bad Wolf Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Even with Man U being massive and all, years of Southampton wandering has taught me that down here Arsenal are the second most popular team behind Saints based on "probably better than Sky's methodology" shirt sightings. I beg to differ. My friend supports Arsenal but other than that, I very rarely see an Arsenal shirt out and about. I do, however, see at least one United shirt every time I go to the City Centre.
oldskoolsi Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Those who are calling this troll bait statistics i think are that Swansea, West Brom, Leicester and Newcastle all came top in or close to their 'home region'. I would be disappointed that Southampton aren't top in ours, although if it includes the whole of Hampshire, it's understandable.
Manuel Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Pubs put a lot of Arsenal games on to subdue the customers and prevent trouble.
Crazy Diamond Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 If there's a big match on, with a lot at stake, then naturally people are going to tune in... And those big matches tend to include the big teams, so Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and United being up there shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Mr Biscuits Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 So when I had BT Sport and put every Friday night game on the TV (usually doing something else, just had the TV on as background noise) someone was taking my viewing as gospel about which team I support?
VectisSaint Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 So when I had BT Sport and put every Friday night game on the TV (usually doing something else, just had the TV on as background noise) someone was taking my viewing as gospel about which team I support? They may have been but Sky probably weren't paying too much attention.
SarniaSaint Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Sky and Murdoch .............two words that define what is wrong with football in the UK.
Roboze Posted 23 July, 2015 Posted 23 July, 2015 Sky and Murdoch .............two words that define what is wrong with football in the UK. why are we involving the A-Teams helicopter nut job of a pilot in this
derry Posted 24 July, 2015 Posted 24 July, 2015 Sky would have a problem in this area if it was the most disliked team in this area in the Premier. A toss up between Liverpool, Spurs and MU I think.
david in sweden Posted 24 July, 2015 Posted 24 July, 2015 Wot no Spurs? :-) The area around White Hart Lane was too small to show on the map, maybe it'll show up when they build a bigger stadium...
david in sweden Posted 24 July, 2015 Posted 24 July, 2015 Those who are calling this troll bait statistics i think are that Swansea, West Brom, Leicester and Newcastle all came top in or close to their 'home region'. I would be disappointed that Southampton aren't top in ours, although if it includes the whole of Hampshire, it's understandable. that's probably because a majority of surviving Pompey fans follow Man.U. Now I suppose the western end of that section will support Bournemouth I was working in Pompey in May 1976, and almost everyone in Portsmouth wanted MU to win the Cup Final.
ENSKIED Posted 28 July, 2015 Posted 28 July, 2015 Moneybags Citeh conspicuous by their absence. A few more bought trophies and eventually they won't be, "neutrals" will start switching allegiance. I'm already starting to see one or two City shirts where we reside, and in the boozer some City fans have rather magically started popping up.
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