LFP, Mediapro lose money, face in rights fiasco but victory for Canal Plus could be pyrrhic

The collapse in December of the French football league’s media-rights deal with Mediapro is the biggest market setback suffered by a European league for nearly two decades – since the failure of the ITV Digital pay-television platform nearly bankrupted the English Football League in 2002.

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