| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre 13:56 - Jan 15 with 4039 views | Asa |
I get that the tournament is somewhat of a joke for an international tournament.
Must be 1,000 fans there for Senegal's match if that. Yesterday Nigeria played in a 60,000 stadium in front of no more than 2,000 I wouldn't have thought.
But surely Sky can afford a couple of pundits in a UK studio discussing the match. They have every game on yet it's just the local feed right up to kick off. Makes the red button for EFL coverage look sophisticated.
Why bother televising every match and making it quite clear you don't care?
Nonetheless, I'm very lucky to work from home and be able to have every game on in the background of a major tournament. Even if it is a completely bizarre one.
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 13:59 - Jan 15 with 3976 views | homer_123 |
Who on earth watches Sky for the punditry? |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:02 - Jan 15 with 3935 views | J2BLUE |
Bit harsh. No idea how much tickets are but it's not the wealthiest country. It's also the same time there as it is here so not sure how many people can turn up for these games.
Sky likely got the rights dirt cheap and it's just something else they can say they have, especially when they lose more and more top level football. |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:04 - Jan 15 with 3909 views | Asa |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 13:59 - Jan 15 by homer_123 |
Who on earth watches Sky for the punditry? |
How on earth are you going to know if a team should have a penalty rightly turned away for what looks like a player being kicked to the moon if Don Goodman isn't there to tell you that they got the ball?
If you use your own eyes you could come to the conclusion it was a stonewaller. Luckily the likes of Goodman and Hinchcliffe are there to educate us mere laymen. | | | |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:06 - Jan 15 with 3892 views | Asa |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:02 - Jan 15 by J2BLUE |
Bit harsh. No idea how much tickets are but it's not the wealthiest country. It's also the same time there as it is here so not sure how many people can turn up for these games.
Sky likely got the rights dirt cheap and it's just something else they can say they have, especially when they lose more and more top level football. |
Fully appreciate the challenges there economically, politically and also the fact that games are being played in the middle of the working day, but the turnouts are on a par with Felixstowe and Walton games at a major tournament. You'd have to expect a little bit more than that surely? | | | |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:22 - Jan 15 with 3772 views | Zx1988 |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:06 - Jan 15 by Asa |
Fully appreciate the challenges there economically, politically and also the fact that games are being played in the middle of the working day, but the turnouts are on a par with Felixstowe and Walton games at a major tournament. You'd have to expect a little bit more than that surely? |
I'd say that there could be two factors over and above the way in which more western-friendly tournaments such as the Euros or the World Cup work.
Incomes in Africa are far below those that are found in the more developed world - are ticket prices proportionally lower across the board so that the same demographic as in Europe etc., can attend? Or are the fans we see at AFCON games within a much smaller percentile of the local population?
The cheapest tickets for the AFCON group stage are set at 5,000FCFA, which would equate to 6.66% of the minimum monthly wage of 75,000FCFA (£98.49). Compare this to the Euros, where the cheapest group stage ticket (£25) sits at 1.3% of the minimum monthly wage (£1,859 - 37.5hrs per week at National Living Wage).
What about working conditions? Whilst we're lucky enough to be able to take paid time off work to gad about and watch our favourite teams in mid-week tournament matches, do the local populations enjoy the same rights in terms of annual leave and holiday pay? [Post edited 15 Jan 2024 14:37]
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:34 - Jan 15 with 3698 views | Stewart27 |
Are you saying that Don Goodman and Andy Hinchcliffe would enhance the experience?
If so then I think I’ll give it a swerve. | | | |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:36 - Jan 15 with 3680 views | TractorCam |
Me too, take no interest other than the fact i'm home so it can be on in the background... when it's not experiencing technical difficulties anyway  |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:38 - Jan 15 with 3668 views | SomethingBlue |
Very disrespectful to call the tournament a joke and, as someone who has covered four of them, I'll be happy to hear your justification. | |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:38 - Jan 15 with 3660 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
How temporary is a temporary fault? |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:39 - Jan 15 with 3641 views | TractorCam |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:38 - Jan 15 by WestStanderLaLaLa |
How temporary is a temporary fault? |
No commentary for the first 15 minutes then a blank screen for the last 15, that equates to 8 minutes of normal gameplay with commentary! | |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:42 - Jan 15 with 3586 views | chicoazul |
Tell us more about why it’s a “joke” OP. |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 15:52 - Jan 15 with 3340 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:39 - Jan 15 by TractorCam |
No commentary for the first 15 minutes then a blank screen for the last 15, that equates to 8 minutes of normal gameplay with commentary! |
Glad the picture was back for that beauty | |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 16:56 - Jan 15 with 3235 views | rickw |
I used to enjoy watching this tournament in the late 90's when fronted by Efan Ekoku (I think!)
I didn't have Sky so it was rare having live matches on TV, but it seemed to be decent coverage with pundits who really cared about it |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 18:51 - Jan 15 with 3077 views | Ftnfwest |
If we organised a tournament here and made it far too expensive and at the wrong time of day so that hardly anyone attended I suspect that would be called a joke as well. |  | | |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 18:55 - Jan 15 with 3051 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:04 - Jan 15 by Asa |
How on earth are you going to know if a team should have a penalty rightly turned away for what looks like a player being kicked to the moon if Don Goodman isn't there to tell you that they got the ball?
If you use your own eyes you could come to the conclusion it was a stonewaller. Luckily the likes of Goodman and Hinchcliffe are there to educate us mere laymen. |
To be fair, the answer is quite easy there.
If it is for Leeds, Leicester or Southampton then it was a stonewaller. If it is against them, it is harsh (if given) and clearly never a pen. In all other cases, flip a coin. |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 19:07 - Jan 15 with 3030 views | Asa |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:38 - Jan 15 by SomethingBlue |
Very disrespectful to call the tournament a joke and, as someone who has covered four of them, I'll be happy to hear your justification. |
I don't think it's unreasonable to consider that many see it as a joke in the same way that some see the Papa John's Trophy as one.
I don't think it's unreasonable either to expect a continental wide tournament to not be riddled with empty stadiums and technical difficulties in this day and age.
I'm not oblivious to the challenges that Africa faces but it's not as if there is no money in football or African football and it's fair to expect the organisation of the tournament to be slightly more impressive in set up than the friendlies we have had at Needham and Felixstowe.
Yesterday Nigeria played in the 60,000 national stadium with a couple of thousand there at best. Why play it in that stadium? Why not somewhere smaller? Why not give tickets away or lower the prices?
I've watched many an African Cup of Nations and really enjoy them. But it's not as if the rest of the world is complimentary of the issues that every single one seems to face. | | | |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 19:09 - Jan 15 with 3014 views | matteoblue |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 13:59 - Jan 15 by homer_123 |
Who on earth watches Sky for the punditry? |
Exactly. This sounds like dream coverage. If only the Premier League could be like that. Just switch on at kick off, with no commentators, just crowd noise. I don't want to hear how many 'clean sheets at home on a Tuesday' a goalkeeper has, and other such drivel. |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 20:44 - Jan 15 with 2874 views | Asa |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 14:42 - Jan 15 by chicoazul |
Tell us more about why it’s a “joke” OP. |
I have done.
It's a continental showpiece tournament being played in stadiums that make COVID crowds look substantial.
Whether that's tickets being too expensive, games being on during the day, whatever the reason or reasons are, nobody is telling me that one of the favourites for the title playing the second match of the tournament in front of 1,500 people in a 60,000 stadium, national anthems being interupted by speaker failures and the TV pictures and sound regularly cutting out is a tournament not worthy of ridicule.
It's an absolute shambles from an organisation point of view. Not knocking the nations, players or supporters.
The organisation of the tournament is a joke. That's quite apparent already and has been for the last few I have watched. Always enjoy the matches themselves.
Feel like a TWTD'er here and there has seen joke and Africa in a paragraph and drawn unfair conclusions without worrying that there might be some other context. Africa deserves far far better than what they have ended up with. Whether that is CAF, the Ivorian FA or both. [Post edited 15 Jan 2024 20:54]
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 15:36 - Jan 16 with 2602 views | Perublue |
No idea about the Sky coverage,but I don't think it's a joke of an international tournament...I don't really get that bit...I guess from your OP crowds and lack of are the joke bit ? |  |
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| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 15:54 - Jan 16 with 2562 views | Perublue |
| Sky's African Cup of Nations coverage is once again bizarre on 15:36 - Jan 16 by Perublue |
No idea about the Sky coverage,but I don't think it's a joke of an international tournament...I don't really get that bit...I guess from your OP crowds and lack of are the joke bit ? |
Oh i've read your other posts now...fair enough. | |
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