This post should have garnered more appreciation. Following ESPN's model there will be a shift to the loudest option shouters to drive subsequent online views.After years of monopolising tv coverage and telling us what we want they've been blown out of the game by BT Sport who realised a long time ago that people were fed up of the incompetent, monochrome old boys club of Merson, Tyler et al and wanted some relatable insight and a good online highlights package.
Plus Sky have had to change their business model, can't make a buck on TV ads anymore. Nowadays TV advertising revenue is a fraction of what you get from online. So they're getting in a younger crowd to have 'HEATED DEBATES' with the likes of Keane and Souness (Souness is for the chop soon, total dinosaur) plus a few youtubers on a Saturday morning because it will get them better click throughs.
NFL coverage is well down this route already.