TV games this weekend

[GOALden Hawk]

TV Games this weekend:

Arsenal v Portsmouth on SBS
ManUre v Charlton on Fox

Ridiculous choices given Blackburn v Liverpool and Everton v Newcastle will be far more entertaining fixtures.

The Sunday night games are bollocks as well.

 

[Shinboners]

Originally posted by GOALden Hawk
TV Games this weekend:

Arsenal v Portsmouth on SBS
ManUre v Charlton on Fox

Ridiculous choices given Blackburn v Liverpool and Everton v Newcastle will be far more entertaining fixtures.

As a United fan, I'm happy that we'll get to see the game against Charlton.

But I agree with you. They were bad selections. Blackburn vs the Dirties and Everton vs the Barcodes would have been better selections as they would have been far more competitive games.

 

[Weaver]

I did some work in the Soccer media in the UK a couple oy years back.

Back then the arrangement was that the early kick-off Saturday games and the Sunday game would be on Sky (eqv to Foxtel but more widespread). Then they added a 2nd earlier Sunday game for PPV. We get those games via Foxtel. Unfortantely we don't get the Martin Tyler and Andy Gray commentary.

A separate company then offers 3 of the Saturday afternoon games to the international audience. They can only be seen in the UK on pirate satellite. So the 3 games this company chooses, and markets mostly to Europe and Asia will always include Man Utd if they are playing.

I don't know who has first choice but I would be fairly sure that Foxtel and SBS have a choice from just 3 games. The annoucement on which games this 3rd company would cover would be early in the week. I would suspect that the 3rd game offered was the Chelsea - Tottenham game. If the Blackburn - Liverpool game was on offer one of the channels would have taken it for the Aussie involvement.

I am little surprised actually that the Chelski - Spurts game is not an early kick-off. It used to only happen for 'big' local derbies when the police insisted on it to cut down on drunken violence. But now they seem to find a way to have one every week.

 

[Catman]

Originally posted by GOALden Hawk
TV Games this weekend:

Arsenal v Portsmouth on SBS
ManUre v Charlton on Fox

Ridiculous choices given Blackburn v Liverpool and Everton v Newcastle will be far more entertaining fixtures.

Arsenal and Man U are on every week, either on Fox or SBS. I don't have statistics at hand but it seemed that both clubs had their games shown over here each week last season and this season will be no different.

One of the perks of finishing in the Top 2 I suppose.

 

[tribey]

Arsenal vs FC Porto () will be the ultimate acid test on Hayden Foxe.

Can't wait.

 

[JuniorBurger]

Arsenal vs FC Porto () will be the ultimate acid test on Hayden Foxe.

Foxey is only just coming back from injury so he prob will be on the bench.
It will be interesting too see just HOW far we have come since the start of last year. The last time we played the Arse at Highbury we got done 6-0 so there is a lot of room for improvement!
I wonder what sort of reception SuperTed will get??

 

[windyhill]

Originally posted by JuniorBurger
I wonder what sort of reception SuperTed will get??

Probably the usual warm welcome, the prick he is.

 

[thewhippersnapper]

Oh my god.

They put Arsenal v Portsmouth over Liverpool v Blackburn.

The reds match would be much more exciting in my opinion. I agree 75% of the time(at the very least) Man United and Arsenal are on even when there playing lowly teams.

Put some damn good matches on for once.

 

[mattyc2422]

Originally posted by BomberAUS
They put Arsenal v Portsmouth over Liverpool v Blackburn.
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Terrible decision.