Spoiler

Wanted: Anyone who paid for the England game

500,000 viewers. Really?

UPDATE
Just 3% of Spoiler respondees paid for this match via the correct and legal channels. So come on Kenataro – prove this 500,00 nonsense is accurate.

According to the companies behind the pay-per-view screening of England’s World Cup qualifier in Ukraine, almost half a million folk turned on, tuned in and left as satisfied customers.

In addition, the Swiss agency Kentaro, left holding the rights after Setanta went bust this year, and Perform, the internet broadcaster it employed to show the match, said almost nine in 10 viewers who responded to a post-match survey found the picture quality “satisfactory or better”. Perform’s chairman Andrew Croker said it was “an extremely successful and ground-breaking project”.

Now thespoiler admittedly doesn’t get out much, and the size of its circle of friends enables it to hold its birthday parties in phone boxes, but we don’t know a single person who paid for this match. We do however know plenty who watched it on iraqigoals illegal television streams unknown to law-abiding citizens such as ourselves, but nobody who actually dusted the cobwebs from their wallet, and splashed some shekels.

So in a method remarkably similar to how they do tv ratings, we’re going to conduct our own poll. Help us help Kentaro. Lets find out how many souls watched England legally on Saturday night.

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