Category: Football
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After months of hype, the Now coverage of the English Premier League is finally here – and it’s both better and (slightly) worse than I had expected. The first big surprise for me was that none of the games are being shown on ESPN or Star Sports. I am sure that when the deal was…
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There has been a lot of correspondence in the SCMP recently about PCCW’s Now Broadband TV, and specifically their sports channels. After winning the rights to the English Premier League, PCCW have created a new package of channels, for which they apparently plan to charge HK$218 per month (their current "special offer" for an 18-month…
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When Carlos Tevez & Javier Mascherano were unexpectedly signed by West Ham just before last summer’s transfer deadline the whole thing looked decidedly odd, and sure enough it has turned into a hugely entertaining saga for anyone not directly affected. First West Ham pretended they owned the players. Then they claimed to have torn up the agreement whereby Tevez was…
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Chelsea drew 1-1 with Valencia. The SCMP headline writer seemed to think otherwise:
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A few months ago, Now TV were offering subscriptions to ESPN & Star Sports at $78 per month. Now it has become a Mega Sports Pack at HK$178 per month. The "mega" seems to mean that as well as ESPN & Star Sport, you get Eurosport News (already available on Cable TV), Eurosport and an…
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Wednesday’s SCMP had a short piece about the English Premier League coverage moving from Cable TV to Now Broadband TV (Premier League loss not end of world for i-Cable): Badge of honour At Now TV, meanwhile, executives are proud of their Premiership coup, but they can’t talk about it as much as they like because Cable…
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It appears that Now Broadband TV have secured the rights to the English Premier League from next season (from yesterday’s Standard). Their initial bid was significantly higher than anyone else, so under the rules of the auction there will be no 2nd round, and they are now in exclusive negotiations with the EPL to finalise…
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I am getting heartily sick of all the po-faced, santimonious, nonsense that has written about Zinedine Zidane’s "mad moment" in the World Cup Final. Marco Materazzi obviously set out to wind up Zidane, and he succeeded. Had Zidane been more calculating he could have waited and kicked Materazzi when he had the ball, but he…
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Hilariously over the top nonsense from James Lawton in The Independent: Auf Wiedersehen, Germany, but, yet again, ciao, Italy. It is hard to believe that any other football nation, while operating from under an avalanche of dirt, could have found their way so sure-footedly to such a superb performance. It was as if they were…
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I’m afraid to say that my feeling after the end of the penalty shoot-out was that if England couldn’t score in 120 minutes then they didn’t deserve to win. The blame, I think, has to rest with Sven. After Rooney’s sending-off, England played better with a 4 man midfield than they had with a 5…
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