Gold was speaking in the week before two crucial Euro 2008 qualifiers for Steve McClaren's England and a few daysafter the summer transfer window closed.
The England and Wales Cricket Board expects demand to increase as the new season approaches, which is good news for counties who received smaller pay-outs last summerafter Tests against Zimbabwe and the West Indies finished inside five days.
They hope to have roughly 100 Plastic Logic devices to test with readers this summer, months after the papers stopped delivery of the print newspaper most days of the week.