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Keep Cricket Free
If you’re a cricket fan, or a sports fan, or English, or hell, someone please please please check out this site – Keep Cricket Free. As of 2006, all English Test Cricket will only be available on Sky – a pay-TV service. The question is not an “I hate Sky” argument, because I don’t, but it’s more of a cultural argument – national teams involved in sport should be on national television. Simple as that.
There’s an online petition you can sign (which I’m sure will do bugger all, but do it anyway) and there’s lots of interesting information you can read. The important thing is that with cricket really beginning to take off in England again, it’s important that it’s not lost to Rupert Murdoch’s pocket.
Clicky: Keep Cricket Free
[...] Too little too late Rog. Seriously, where was all this 6 months ago, when the question over who should have rights to English Test Cricket was being debated? Why did you not listen to all the debate then? Listen to the millions of people who are completely pissed off that it’s going to Sky? And fuck me if it’s even not too late to sort it out – you could still make a bid for the cricket and ensure that a national team competing in international competition remains on its own national media service. [...]