Ordinary Gweilo

Everyone must know that the English Premier League is on Now TV.  What about other European football?  Of course there’s a lot on other Now channels and on Cable TV, but there is also some in strange places.

The Championship (the English 2nd Division) is shown on TVB Pay Vision, but they don’t have a sports channel so the games go out on channel 898 (TVB PayVison Info – normally used for programme information) and tonight you can watch Burnley vs Reading in the play-offs.  The two language options are Cantonese and silence. 

Or tonight on one of the free-to-air ATV digital channels you can watch Rangers vs Celtic from the Scottish Premier League.  Earlier this season another ‘Old Firm’ clash was on ATV Home, but it was a dull 0-0 draw, so tonight they are showing a 42 year old James Bond film instead.

This season, TVB has been showing the Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) on Jade, with a few games on Pearl (for matches that are in peak times in HK), and the final is on Wednesday night (Thursday morning here).  The final is Lazio vs Sampdoria, which might help to explain why it’s on free-to-air TV – no-one takes the Coppa Italia very seriously.