FSC is so much shit now.. good riddance.. they ruined the EPL and CL broadcast by bringing American panels and commentators on.. Gus Johnson was the turning point for me, absolutely ridiculous
I don't think that is true. This is America. Is their network. Is not friggin TT who will demure to all things foreign. . The broadcasts were great. At least the camera shots. That is the most important thing in broadcast sports. I turned down the volume when I use to hear a lot of crap. Gus is not great, but I have heard worst. NBC and the Arabs have bigger wallets at this time. Fox did not or could not match them. I am not a Murdoch fan, but that was his best product.
The camera shots might be the most important thing in sports, but, for most of us on this English-speaking side of Europe, that have gotten so used to having the English commentators be our only source of commentary, we liked the commentary, too....and it takes a whole lot to get used to the American style....to the point where it takes too much. You have to remember that this might be America where some of us live, but everybody else in the region is forced to endure them as well when Fox bought out all the rights for the region and they shafted their english-speaking customers, plain and simple. I dunno who you could have heard that was worse than Gus Johnson...that was English....and/or not American but for me, the only setta commentators that are as bad as or worse than gus are the Americans. ALL OF THEM.....except Christopher Sullivan (who I don't really consider "American" anyway) and, for what he contributes to the pre and post game and occasional in-game analyses, I actually like Brian McBride. I mean, who really wants to have to turn down the volume on a Europa League semifinal because the assigned commentator (that has stuffed down our collective throats) does not know and has has to ask his partner analyst "what is width?"?....or during the FA Cup final now, when Ian Wright says "...mancity looks a little leggy to me..." and Johnson asks "what is "leggy", what does "leggy" mean?" Really?!? And all this after he did such a butcher job on names and important information in both the Barca-Bayern and Chelsea-Basel matchups. Gus needs to go, so, "goodbye, Gus".
Back in the 90's there used to be a station/channel called "Fox Sports New York" or something to that effect....I presume it was under the same "fox" umbrella....they showed the '93 U-20 and U-17 World cups...won by Brazil and Ghana respectively. for a brief period they used to rotate seasons between French, Dutch and Portuguese football....I cyah remember what became of it and how it morphed into nothing but maybe they might want to check that out. these executives underestimate how much in this America, the land of immigrant football junkies and with the swell of growing interest in the sport among its indigenous people, that a steady diet of football from all these different leagues is never too much for us.