Category: Football
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When footballers tell you how clever they have been, you just know it’s going to end in tears. Thus, when David Beckham’s response to criticism of his booking towards the end of the England vs. Wales international was to say: "I’m sure some people think that I have not got the brains to be that…
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The BBC’s virtual reality coverage of Premiership goals is a great way of wasting some time. As well as seeing the goals from all the normal camera angles, you pick any player and either see the goal from their view or observe them from close up. Very clever stuff.
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From today’s SCMP (subscription required): The chief executive of the Premier League has defended Cable TV’s coverage of the English game, declaring the switch from satellite broadcaster ESPN/Star a triumph. "It’s a big success story. A dedicated channel is all you can ask for if you’re running a sports competition," said Scudamore. "It’s great to…
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Ah, the football management merry-go-round. The season is only a few weeks old, and already three Premiership clubs are changing managers. I have some sympathy for football club chairmen because I’m sure that it is a very challenging role, but you have to wonder whether it makes their job any easy to leave the manager…
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Well, the EPL season has started, and we finally get to discover what joys Cable TV have in store for us. First impressions are reasonably favourable, all things considered. It seems that they will be showing 7 of the 10 games from each weekend’s fixtures live (including two simultaneously as ESPN/Star Sports did), and then…
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With less than a week to go until the start of the Premier League season, there still appears to be no information available about Cable TV’s coverage. The TV listing in yesterday’s Post Magazine show games being shown by ESPN & Star Sports, but clearly that isn’t going to happen. The Cable TV website says…
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Business Week recently had an article about football club finances (Can Football Be Saved?). Interesting subject, but it hardly inspires confidence when they talk about the British Premier League and describe the UEFA Champions League as a post-season tournament.
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This week the Jockey Club announced that although their turnover on football betting was lower than expected, the profit margins were much better than they had expected. They say that this is because of some unexpected results in major competitions, but my information is that it is actually a matter of mug punters and good…
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It’s started already. Shaky has one picture caption making fun of David Beckham, and someone has just seen me a few others, including this one.
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That’s what you call nerve-wracking, not to mention desparately disappointing. It was an absorbing game. In the first half I thought England looked reasonably comfortable defending their slender lead, but as the game went on it looked increasingly likely that Portugal would score, and after they did I really doubted England’s ability to get back…
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