Category: Football
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Now TV have 9 sports channels. However, they don’t have enough sport to fill all these channel 24 hours per day and by the time you get to channel 638 (Now Sports 8) there’s usually just a blank screen. OK, fair enough. But hang on, there are several Premier League games tonight. Shouldn’t one of…
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Three years ago, PCCW’s Now TV put in a knockout bid and won the Hong Kong rights to the English Premier League without Cable TV being able to make a counter-bid. This time round, Cable TV were more prepared, and PCCW dropped out of the auction, saying that they declined to pay over the odds…
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Yesterday’s SCMP had an explanation for the absence of Spanish football from Hong Kong TV screens. The reason, apparently, is that La Liga want more money for the rights than either PCCW (Now TV) or Cable TV are willing to pay. The reality is that subscribers wouldn’t pay much to watch the Spanish or Italian…
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Someone added a comment to my post about Cable TV’s HD service asking where Spanish football is available this season (on TV in Hong Kong, that is). The answer seems to be that it isn’t, which seems odd given the amount of money Barcelona and Real Madrid have spent. So what is available? Based on…
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It's all about money, innit? Tottenham didn't come to Hong Kong for any other reason. The problem is that a friendly match against South China doesn't suddenly become important because it is for the "Panasonic Cup". They probably won't be the slightest bit concerned that this fine piece of silverware is now in the hands…
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Since the Football League introduced the play-off system, the end-of-season schedule of matches has been fairly consistent. The Football League season ends in early May (with League One and Two on the Saturday, and the Championship on Sunday). A week later the Premier League season ends. Then it’s the FA Cup Final, and finally the…
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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…
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Surely one of the stories of this football season must be the amazing ascent of AFC Wimbledon. The club was founded less than 7 years ago by fans of Wimbledon FC when their team became MK Dons and moved to faraway Milton Keynes. They started out in the 9th tier of English football, and have now…
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BBC Sport RSS feed: League to discuss two-tier plan Chairmen will discuss a plan put forward by Bolton’s Phil Gartside to have a two division Premier League including Celtic and Rangers. click on the link and it takes you to this page: League dismiss two-tier proposals Celtic and Rangers could play Old Firm matches in…
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I often find myself watching EPL games not really knowing which team I want to win. So recently I have taken to supporting (strictly on a match-by-match basis) whoever scores higher on the Football Sanity Index. There are many factors involved, but the main ones are the recent history of hiring and firing managers, transfer policy,…
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