Media
Football is now nationally broadcasted in multiple forms of media, It is portrayed through television, newspapers, the internet and radio. Predominantly bradcasted through television, companies make billions every year off doing so.
After the implimentaion of multiple broadcastings medias, there has been a significant rise in the popualarity and participation on football
INTERNET: The internet is accessible to the majority of the population allowing anyone to access information about football from anywhere in the world. Statistically the internet is becoming the most influencial source of media coverage for football, with all the web sites, transfer news and streams it has to offer.
TELEVISION: TV channels such as Sky Sports, BT sport and ESPN just to name a few, specify in sports, and sports only, with billions of pounds and dollars being implimented into such channels, they air as much showtime as they can worth of football, allowing people to watch football on a regular basis. Television has also changed football for the better, as with the ability to watch games over, an analysis can now be made on referees for example, allowing rules and regulations to be tweaked in order to make football a fairer and safer game to play. However, football has become to reliant on televison that things are rapidly changing.
Harry Redknapp (football manager) "Football is a sport which has become so commercial it may be thought by some to have rather lost its way."