Soccer. Racing: Sunday hell

Mediapro may have been only an ephemeral broadcaster of Ligues 1 and 2 in 2020-2021, but it left its mark on French football in the long term. Not only because its failure, after only a few weeks, halved – from 1.15 billion euros to 663 million – the annual TV rights that the Professional Football League should have collected during the period 2020-2024, but also because the Sino-Spanish group has shaken up broadcasting habits.

At his request, the sacrosanct multiplex on Saturday evening disappeared and was pushed back to Sunday at 3 p.m. This reprogramming survived his defection, even after the arrival of Prime Video. With a corollary that affects clubs: today, their…