I'd be delighted for SL to be shown on a Monday night during the football closed season - Monday's a dead night for me and mine, so I pretty much always end up watching Monday Night Football, regardless of who's on.

Once the football season ends Mondays are even duller than normal. Live SL on TV would certainly brighten them up! Might even manage to get some football fans who are missing their Monday night fox interested???

Not sure how much it would affect clubs and fans involved though? Can't imagine it'd bother us too often as we only average 2 TV appearances per season?!

So pander to the TV audience, may of whom probably won't get off their armchair to attend a live match regardless of how much they enjoy Sky's "product", but then only treat the impact on players and match-going supporters as a secondary concern?

I've seen that before somewhere...

I'm fairly sure they don't. For the last few year that has been kind of the case with the Championship games - but the club hasn't been given cash, they were given sponsorship to allow them to gie out free tickets.

As far as I know, the only direct (i.e. apart from the general awareness given by being in the shop window) financial benefit to a club of being televised would be that perimeter advertising has a higher value for for those games.

Championship clubs on SKY recieved £ 4,000 in cash but had to give out 200 free family tickets [ essentially to the value of £4K ] and £1,000 which had to be spent ' marketing ' the game , receipts for both expenditure were to be supplied on request

This was the money from the Co oP sonsorship , we dont as yet know if the clubs will recieve any monies for Premier Sports coverage if the Co oP sponsorship continues , as it was tied into the SKY deal ?