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Are you new to following sports?
If you are, I’ll give you a heads up. Leave aside for a moment that only the most determinedly naive can really hope to banish the entire history of the sport and the cynicism it naturally produces from fans attitudes. In any sport, if there is a dominant team that is, as you suggest, using a huge budget to continuously win major events, that team will be despised by fans of other teams and deeply resented by neutrals. Do you think that other English football fans were keen on Man Utd during the period of their dominance? Not only did their rivals hate them, just about every fan of teams that weren’t even in the same division as them wanted them to lose every game. Do you think other Scottish fans were anything but overjoyed when Glasgow Rangers went under?
Adding to that general phenomenon in Sky’s case is that part of the secret of their success is the use of their megabudget to pay superdoms to impose order and control on races. No cycling fans, barring a few masochists, wants to see orderly, controlled racing. Therefore from the point of view of the neutral who is mostly interested in entertainment, Sky are a thousand times more aggravating than the similarly dominant Quickstep.
Oude Geuze said:
Are you new to following sports?
If you are, I’ll give you a heads up. Leave aside for a moment that only the most determinedly naive can really hope to banish the entire history of the sport and the cynicism it naturally produces from fans attitudes. In any sport, if there is a dominant team that is, as you suggest, using a huge budget to continuously win major events, that team will be despised by fans of other teams and deeply resented by neutrals. Do you think that other English football fans were keen on Man Utd during the period of their dominance? Not only did their rivals hate them, just about every fan of teams that weren’t even in the same division as them wanted them to lose every game. Do you think other Scottish fans were anything but overjoyed when Glasgow Rangers went under?
Adding to that general phenomenon in Sky’s case is that part of the secret of their success is the use of their megabudget to pay superdoms to impose order and control on races. No cycling fans, barring a few masochists, wants to see orderly, controlled racing. Therefore from the point of view of the neutral who is mostly interested in entertainment, Sky are a thousand times more aggravating than the similarly dominant Quickstep.
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