As you’ve no doubt heard by now, it was announced yesterday that Sky and BT Sport have collectively spunked a record £5.136billion for the right to screen live Premier League matches for three seasons from 2016/17. The chaps over at Sporting Intelligence have sought to put the TV deal into some sort of perspective for us common folk, noting that the cash Sky and BT are happily frothing away on football is actually a larger sum than the total GDP (i.e, the monetary value) of 54 entire countries…
holy shit, that is amazing.