European Parliament
Glyn Ford (PSE ). –
Thank you very much, Commissioner, on this auspicious evening for German – or possibly Italian – football. Can I ask if you are serious? Trying to break up the TV monopoly over premiership football has been a complete dog’s breakfast. As a football fan, I still have absolutely no choice. I have to subscribe to BSkyB
and
another channel if I want to follow my team. Does the Commission appreciate that buying a random collection of football matches is not what 90% of people want? They want to follow their team. Why have you cut up the cake in the way you have? It should be cut up so that I can choose to watch my team’s matches, not get a couple of them and twenty matches I do not want to watch. Will you look at this again?

