Ligue 1 fans are given unprecedented TV access – but only to old storylines

The league’s new TV channel will show everything from team talks to dressing room celebrations, but not a title raceBy Get French Football NewsAn elaborate exercise in window dressing is perhaps how to best describe the return of Ligue 1 football. With the league-owned Ligue 1+ taking over broadcasting duties and with a desperate need to “add value” to the “product”, there was a sweeping range of innovations for the return of top-flight football.Viewers were treated to the France World Cup winner Djibril Sidibé dialling in from the Toulouse dressing room following their win over Nice; the Nantes manager, Luís Castro, providing a mid-match tactical overview during their defeat to PSG; images of raucous dressing room celebrations, of pre-match preparations, team talks, you name it. Stadiums become panopticon prisons, and omnipresent cameras erode any mystery that remains in the relationship between those who play the sport and those who watch it. Continue reading...

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