Quote ="Chris Dalton"But for a game which requires so much in television rights what is the point of developing an area where so many don't have one?'"
While I hesitate somewhat to use the word "charity", there could be a definite element of charity in their inclusion. I feel that we can't view everything in terms of simple commercial rights, including the TV income.
Although, when all the soot-flecked peons of Yorkshire form massed huddles around the aging TV sets to wonder at the moving images which depict their team visiting wondrous distant places, there is a distinct opportunity for local street vendors to hawk simple trinkets and foodstuffs to those gathered there. It could provide a stimulus to the moribund local economy, and encourage some small measure of entrepreneurial spirit.
