Now TV seem to be doing a fairly good job of covering Euro 2008. All the games are available in High Definition and on-demand, and channel 632 has 24 hours a day of live games, re-runs, previews and highlights. They even have re-runs on 660 (HD), which they don’t do for the EPL.
There is syndicated English commentary as usual, and John Helm seems to be the main man rushing around from city to city (or maybe pretending to do so), though I think there are others as well.
Rather unexpectedly, Now also have a highlights show available on-demand, and it even has English commentary. Mark Grainger (former Hong Kong international) is the man who gets to talk about the games. He was previously employed by TVB to provide some football expertise alongside Andrew Sams, their all-purpose sports presenter, but here is all on his own, and none the worse for that.
It’s not easy to commentate on highlights of a game, but Mark does a reasonable job. However, I feel I must point out the Swiss city is not normally pronounced Basil…
Ordinary Gweilo 
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