Foreign football popular in Australia

While Rugby League and AFL are quick to say how strong their game is in Australia, and AFL is of that I have no doubt, here's the weeks viewing figures from PAYTV.

How acurate the figures are, who knows, but the ranking is what interests me.

Man United Chelsea ranked number 7 highest show of the week, in Australia, in the middle of the League, AFL and oh yeah the Union seasons.

Surprised me, as Fozzie tells us and has been saying it all day, English football is well not very good! No-one listening Fozzie eh:)

Even West Ham v Newcastle pulled a crowd. What next Blackburn Derby. Wake up Australia!

And Union would surely be concerned that The S14 Waratahs home game can't outrate Man United, although it did beat Coronation Street.

What does it all mean, anything you want I guess! Ratings below.

1 LIVE: NRL COWBOYS V STORM Fox Sports 2 Sat 19:30 328 328 1,373 740
2 LIVE: NRL RAIDERS V STORM Fox Sports 2 Mon 19:00 322 322 1,200 728
3 LIVE & ACTIVE: NRL SEA EAGLES V BULLDOGS Fox Sports 2 Sat 17:30 253 253 1,211 570
4 LIVE: NRL ROOSTERS V KNIGHTS Fox Sports 2 Sun 14:00 251 251 1,182 544
5 LIVE: NRL DRAGONS V ROOSTERS Fox Sports 2 Fri 15:00 243 243 1,088 497
6 LIVE: AFL CARLTON V ADELAIDE Fox Sports 1 Sat 14:00 230 230 1,183 574
7 LIVE: FOOTBALL: EPL CHELSEA V MAN UTD Fox Sports 2 Sat 21:30 195 195 1,102 474
8 LIVE & ACTIVE: AFL W COAST V PORT ADEL Fox Sports 1 Sun 16:30 173 173 1,081 573
9 LIVE: AFL MELBOURNE V CARLTON Fox Sports 1 Sun 13:00 166 166 1,127 554

14 LIVE: AFL PORT ADELAIDE V ST KILDA Fox Sports 1 Sat 19:30 141 141 1,345 581
15 THE SIMPSONS FOX8 Wed 19:17 137 169 1,032 2,013
16 LIVE: AFL PRE GAME SHOW Fox Sports 1 Sun 16:05 121 121 1,012 217
17 LIVE: RUGBY UNION: S14 WARATAHS V SHARKS Fox Sports 3 Sat 19:30 119 119 1,370 388
18 LIVE: AFL: ON THE COUCH Fox Sports 1 Mon 20:30 118 118 1,171 204
19 LIVE: NRL SATURDAY PRE GAME SHOW Fox Sports 2 Sat 16:55 116 116 1,181 282

28 LIVE: RUGBY UNION: S14 CHIEFS V REDS Fox Sports 3 Sat 17:30 89 89 1,211 278

35 LIVE: NRL MONDAY POST GAME SHOW Fox Sports 2 Mon 20:57 83 83 1,081 243
36 DRY SPELL GARDENING Lifestyle Thu 19:31 81 104 1,189 372
37 CORONATION STREET UKTV Fri 18:00 76 88 927 339
38 LIVE: FOOTBALL: EPL WEST HAM V NEWCASTLE Fox Sports 2 Sat 23:55 76 76 509 216

40 LIVE: RUGBY UNION: S14 CRUSADERS V BLUES Fox Sports 3 Fri 17:30 76 76 968 215
41 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY PRE GAME SHOW Fox Sports 2 Fri 14:30 76 76 940 145

50 GRAND DESIGNS Lifestyle Thu 20:38 72 97 1,048 757