"Freedom of Speech" actually ... but that is besides the point.

If that's how you want to spend your money, fair enough (though I doubt you would complain if you had to spend less on it) - but why does it have to affect how my money is spent? In the UK, just like here, you have to pay licensing fees for radio and television - but why must my money be spent on football licensing fees rather than on the creation of educational or cultural programmes? TV companies complain they have no money for anything anymore ...! No, instead it gets blown on sports licenses and the remainder of the money is just about enough to lock a dozen people in a container and point cameras at them all day.

I'd have no troubles if this was an opt-in/opt-out kind of deal, but it isn't ... I realise that football is the dominant sport here in Europe and that at least 50% of the male demographic subscribe to it - I admit it is not as bad as it used to be, when there was a football game on television on every second station every day of the week - but that's just a symptom of something else really. Licensing fees have risen to such an extent that TV stations can't even afford to do that anymore because it's so ridiculously expensive.

Anyways, if 100 million people want to watch football, there's still 600 million who don't ... and that's just Europe.

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