I wouldnt worry, Chelsea TV isnt that good! I think I pay ?6.99 for it a month and probably watch it only once. Lately, I havent wanted to watch the Premiership games back as we have been drawing (before the Wigan game, of course). Other than that, you get a lot of 'Live From Stamford Bridge' which is recorded and a lot of the same people calling up to give their views and opinions on totally irrelevant things. Also, they have pretty blonde girls reading the latest news and pretending to know everything about the club when they are evidentally reading off an autocue!
For half price though, I wouldnt say no!!
Mmmmm, pretty blonde girls.
Actually there is some quite good stuff on nowadays. The
'Analyse That' (or is it This?) isn't particularly interesting as it's just them trying to copy Andy Gray on 'Final Word' but there are some quite interesting progs. They do a
Press programme once a month (which is repeated a lot) where they have members of the gutter press come on and try and justify what they've written. There is a prog called
Chelsea Chat where a Chelsea rep answers questions from Chelsea fans from places like the Fans Forum and certain Fan Clubs.
Interviews for PR by Kenyon and Bruce Buck (who I actually quite like) are always interesting but have to be viewed as bullsh*t PR.
Interviews with players and Jose and other staff are good too.
Live From Stamford Bridge would be excellent if they would do 2 things:- 1. Ban Vernon Carvey and 2 or 3 other regular callers who dominate the programme who just want to say the same thing every week and 2. Stop all the sycophantic grovelling from every caller every time there is an ex player on. It's nice to say thanks I supppose but do the really have to say "before I ask my question I'd like to say thanks to you Kerry for all the great service you've given the club and I still remember the goal you scored against blah blah". It's nice to say thanks but when every caller does it to a bloke who's on Chelsea TV every week anyway it wastes a load of time that could be spent on discussing issues rather than arse licking.
My particular favourites are the
Acadamy progs and the
Live reserves matches which I would never get to see living in the wilds of the north as I do.
It's also nice to see old matches although it would be nice if they could go back a bit further than they do as I'm getting a little bored of watching Vialli ploughing through the snow at Tromso (how could anyone be bored of Vialli!?). Plus of course on the rare occassion we don't see an entire Prem match televised on Sky then we can alway watch the full 90 minutes a couple of days later on Chelsea TV which is infinitely preferable to watching the biased selection from the BBC highlights prog. (I am of course deliberately ignoring the football first choice on Saturday evenings).
Chelsea TV is overpriced but only just in my opinion and I'm happy to pay for it considering my current circumstances. I like it on the whole.