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People who get excited at seeing huge numbers of people watching television events are acting like they've had their own world cup victory on internet forums where they talk about this stuff. Each to their own. Here are the stats these lunatics are getting excited about, the highest peak for a show since the 2012 Olympics was achieved last night. Football proving once again it can be the big draw it once was. These figures only include people watching at home on TVs, not in pubs, on big screens or other business locations.


Here's the updated viewership tally for this world cup:

 

Monday 18th June 2018

England 2 v 1 Tunisia - Avg - 13.7m (60.9%)  - Peak 18.3m (66.9%) -

Match Time 7pm / Peak time: 8:45-8:50pm

 

Saturday 25th June 2018

England 6 v 1 Panama - Avg  9.9m (72.9%) - Peak 14.1m (82.9%)

Match Time 3pm / Peak time: 2:35-2:40pm

 

Thursday 28th June 2018

England 0 v 1 Belgium - Avg 16.7m (72.2%) - Peak 18.6m (72.0%) 

Match time 7pm / Peak Time: 

 

Monday 3rd July 2018

England 1 v 1 (4-3 pens) Colombia Avg 20.8m (77.4) - Peak 23.8m (79.9%)

Match time: 7pm / Peak Time 9.45pm-9.50pm

 

Saturday 7th July 2018

England 2 v 0 Sweden Avg 17.4m (84.4%) / Peak 19.64m (87.7%) 

Match time: 3pm / Peak Time: 16:45

 

Quick breakdown 

Avg - Average viewership during the match itself.

Peak - Peak viewership of the entire match.

Share's in brackets are percentage of people at home watching a telly who were watching the match.

Peaks are measured in 5 minute intervals.

 

For reference the 10th most watched broadcast in history is the London Olympics opening ceremony in 2012 with 24.4m viewers. 

The most watched television broadcast in history is the 1966 world cup final with 32.3m viewers. 

 

Real possibility of one of those being broken if we make it to the semis. Too many pub watchers on Saturday to trouble it.

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4 hours ago, Deathray said:

 

The thing is unless we're playing against you most English fans want the other home nations to do well in competitions. It was great when Wales and Northern Ireland qualified for the euros in 2016. 

 

Hopefully they, England and Scotland can all qualify for Euro 2020 and Qatar 2022.

This!!

I watched little Archie jink this way and that before planting the ball in the net. I roared when Gerry Armstrong stuck the ball in the net back in 82? I cheered on Wales in the Euros and even gave support to the Republic when they were punching above their weight.

Most English people did exactly the same. 

Not anymore tho. Fuck them.:D

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I watched a bit of it last night but decided that my nerves wouldn't take it.  With 3 minutes of normal time left I dared to look and it was still 1-0 to England. 

Then I took into account the dirty filthy play of the opposition and figured that there would be about 25 minutes of stoppage time to be added. 

So I took the dog out.

Much later I nervously switched over again only to see that it had gone to penalties. 

I ran out screaming.

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shame the Germans are not in it any more it could be a classic

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From a wit in the Grauniads comments section.

 

Neymar - A man trapped in an invisible washing machine. 

 

heh. :lol:

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I love the comment about Neymar above-he is a joke but while they have started to do something about staging it hasn't gone far enough.  Still seems that the two things you need to make it at soccer are a very high centre of gravity and a very low pain threshold.  Not to mention a very fertile imagination.

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8 hours ago, Dr_T said:

I love the comment about Neymar above-he is a joke but while they have started to do something about staging it hasn't gone far enough.  Still seems that the two things you need to make it at soccer are a very high centre of gravity and a very low pain threshold.  Not to mention a very fertile imagination.

You need to watch British football more. We don't tolerate cheating and diving fuckers here.

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Looks like it’s going to be a Europe dominated top 4 then, since the 4 teams that haven’t played yet are European while France and Belgium both won against the South American teams in their match...

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20 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Looks like it’s going to be a Europe dominated top 4 then, since the 4 teams that haven’t played yet are European while France and Belgium both won against the South American teams in their match...

 

30-fucking-genius-gif.gif

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On 13/06/2018 at 18:01, gcreptile said:

I think France is going to win.

Germany out in the semi-finals, have forgotten against whom, could be England... because yes, I believe that England is going to defeat Brazil in the quarter-finals.

Turns out Belgium defeats Brazil. I expected England to win their group. But then 2nd place in their group gave England the easier bracket. My big miscalculation in all of this was Germany, of course. France however is looking better each round and now the new favourite.

In my office pool I also had an all-european semi-final. But with Spain and Germany instead of Belgium and .... Croatia, I guess.

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Good luck England today.

 

Sretno Croatia!

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Is anyone else getting miffed by Russia just casually being referred to as in Europe to justify this European teams only stuff, Half the countries in asia ffs.

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Half your team is from Africa, don't hear us whining.

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7 minutes ago, charon said:

Half your team is from Africa, don't hear us whining.

 

Check your facts before you make cheap old jokes.

 

22 of the team were born in England

 

Jordan Pickford -  born in Washington, England

Kyle Walker - born in Sheffield, England

Danny Rose - born in Doncaster, England

Eric Dier - born in Cheltenham, England

John Stones - born in Barnsley, England

Harry Maguire - born in Sheffield, England

Jesse Lingard - born in Warrington, England

Jordan Henderson - born in Sunderland, England

Harry Kane - born in Walthamstow, England

Jamie Vardy - born in Sheffield, England

Kieran Trippier - born in Bury, England

Jack Butland - born in Bristol, England

Danny Welbeck - born in Manchester, England

Gary Cahill - born in Dronfield, England

Phil Jones - born in Preston, England

Fabian Delph - born in Bradford, England

Ashley Young - born in Stevenage, England

Marcus Rashford - born in Manchester, England

Dele Alli - born in Milton Keynes, England

Reuben Loftus Cheek - born in London, England

Trent Alexander-Arnold - born in Liverpool, England

Nick Pope, born in Soham, England

 

1 of the team was not born in England (moved here when he was 5)

 

Raheem Sterling - born in Kingston, Jamaica (which still isn't Africa)

 

None of them are from Africa.

 

 

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Hmm, that reminds me...has anyone checked the rain down in Africa?

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Whenever I hear the name Dele Alli I am reminded of this.

Sorry, but there it is.

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Fuck me, deathers spent ten minutes finding out.

 

And I don't even know some of that lot.

Maguire, Trippier, Pope, Cheek, Arnold and Butland.

 

Bunch of no marks.

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Oh, and deathers.....

 

If another spare ten minutes..... Do the same for Russia and see how many born in Asia.....

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59 minutes ago, Toast said:

Whenever I hear the name Dele Alli I am reminded of this.

Sorry, but there it is.

Whenever I hear them call him Dele im calling him Delicatessen.

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34 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:
1 hour ago, Toast said:

Whenever I hear the name Dele Alli I am reminded of this.

Sorry, but there it is.

 

Whenever I hear them call him Dele im calling him Delicatessen.

 

Yes, on that note it would be good to see all the non-food shops replaced by specialist grocers and then we could call it Deli Alley.

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1 hour ago, charon said:

Oh, and deathers.....

 

If another spare ten minutes..... Do the same for Russia and see how many born in Asia.....

Was thinking about the same thing, re: "All-European semi-finals" and Russia, but then football in Russia is part of their "European Heritage", the arenas are mostly, but not all in Europe.

 

Having a look at the roster...there's one born in Brazil, two born in Irkutsk (Asia!), one born in the Ural mountains (Europe/Asia?), one born in Barnaul (Asia), one born in Ulan-Ude (Asia), one born in Komsomolsk-On-Amur (Asia).

 

So out of 23 players, 16 are from Europe, 1 half-Europe-half-Asia, 1 Brazil, and 5 Asian players. More Asians than I expected!

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Aye but in football terms, Russia is European.

 

I feel deja vu from some argument or other about Turkey in 2016, too.

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There are no turkeys in Turkey msc.

Factoid for you.

 

 

* cheers GC , interesting.

 

 

** are Australia Asian? Are Israel European?

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England doesn't dazzle, they just run more and know where to stand and when to run (good manager!). Very solid. They would get crushed by a really strong team, but I think only France has this quality this year.

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Wow. Just bloody wow.

 

First semi-final in a major international tournament for 22 years.

 

First semi-final in a World Cup for 28 years.

 

Hands up if you don't remember either of those! *puts hand up* 

 

Great England team. Heroes in the making. Bloody incredible. :party: :party::party: :biggrin:

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