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Broadsword

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  1. What club would release that statement in October? What a pile of s****. Granted, say it in a interview or press conference but to release it on the official club website randomly in October is stupid. Amateur hour again. Whether its lies or not, whats the point.
  2. My word, it is going to get very messy isn't it. How can the board sell the club without the owners consent. The media, mostly seem to be missing this, some more than others. Talk sport and Alan Brazil were talkign as if H&G had gone already and the club had been sold. Incredible.
  3. I don't know. Image that you had 4 different sources of premiership rights holders to choose from. Sky in the UK, one in Germany, France and Italy. All who paid for the same rights as sky did. Who you go with is up to you. I can see Sky paying less as they won't have a monopoly, but the other countries broadcasters would have access to the rest of Europe and would therefore pay more. Sky could also broadcast their own channels abroad also. Would it be good to reduce Sky's dominance though? I kind of like the fact sky has 90% of the rights as they do it properly and I don't mind paying the subs. Its the whole Setanta/ESPN thing that does my nut in. As long as they show the match, I don't care to be honest. For avid followers of specific clubs (rather than those who just like watching the odd bit of football and weigh up if they want to see Super Sunday, the rugby or just put Top Gear on iPlayer), I imagine the ideal environment would be at the game, with no commentator, no analysis, no replays, no computer graphics - and I think they'd rather watch their own team play Bolton in a meaningless midtable game on dodgy pub telly with Estonian commentary than watch the Sky Super Mega Sunday Chelsea-Arsenal clash in 3D with 'expert' opinion and the technological bells and whistles. Even if it meant needing to have 2 or 3 subs to be able to do so? The premier league and Sky will not let the dodgy estonian thing happen no matter what verdict comes of this case. I would imagine the Premier league will change its rights structures to fit what it wants to happen. The upshot of that may mean more choice for us from who we subscribe to but probably not the chance to see the same team on TV each week. Until a team season ticket comes out I doubt there will ever be the ideal scenario.
  4. I don't know. Image that you had 4 different sources of premiership rights holders to choose from. Sky in the UK, one in Germany, France and Italy. All who paid for the same rights as sky did. Who you go with is up to you. I can see Sky paying less as they won't have a monopoly, but the other countries broadcasters would have access to the rest of Europe and would therefore pay more. Sky could also broadcast their own channels abroad also. Would it be good to reduce Sky's dominance though? I kind of like the fact sky has 90% of the rights as they do it properly and I don't mind paying the subs. Its the whole Setanta/ESPN thing that does my nut in.
  5. EU law says there must be free trade across the EU. The games she is broadcasting have also been bought from the premier league, why should they not be allowed to sell their product anywhere in the EU? The premiership saying that is not allowed restricts the free trade in the EU. That's her point and it is a good one. I'd imagine it comes down to redistribution clauses. If the Greeks or whoever have no redistribution clauses in their contracts then fair enough. If they do then she's f***ed. If she broadcasts Arab s*** she's probably f***ed. The law is the law man. Its the clauses that she is claiming are breaking the free trade laws. The premier league do not write the law. So back to the start, she's f***ed then. Whoever has the money writes the law. Yep back to the start, you are talking rubbish.
  6. EU law says there must be free trade across the EU. The games she is broadcasting have also been bought from the premier league, why should they not be allowed to sell their product anywhere in the EU? The premiership saying that is not allowed restricts the free trade in the EU. That's her point and it is a good one. I'd imagine it comes down to redistribution clauses. If the Greeks or whoever have no redistribution clauses in their contracts then fair enough. If they do then she's f***ed. If she broadcasts Arab s*** she's probably f***ed. The law is the law man. Its the clauses that she is claiming are breaking the free trade laws. The premier league do not write the law.
  7. EU law says there must be free trade across the EU. The games she is broadcasting have also been bought from the premier league, why should they not be allowed to sell their product anywhere in the EU? The premiership saying that is not allowed restricts the free trade in the EU. That's her point and it is a good one.
  8. We have already had 2 must win games and we have lost both. This is a MUST win game. The fixtures in November and December are perilous and potentially there's no more than 6 points in them for us. Negative, sure, but there you go.
  9. Google image weightlifter. Should be easy to spot.
  10. This tiote thing is true isn't it. What if we actually bring him on.
  11. Same here, haven't seen anything from him to even remotely suggest he could be a talent.
  12. Pistone was a pile of crap. Hated him towards the end of his stay with us.
  13. So what stupid idea was it to loan out Forster if a single injury means we have to ask special permission for a new keeper. I think the PL should tell us no and we should be made to use Krul, if he then gets injured then yes a special case could be argued. If we don't trust our young keepers that much then why didnt we get a new no 2 keeper in the transfer window. It may be typical media nonsense though.
  14. I had us on 5 points. Man U L Villa D Wolves D Blackpool W Everton L So we are 2 points up. That Blackpool game was a knacker though. Would have been 3rd tonight had that gone the way it should have. Really enjoying this season so far.
  15. This sounds like they way we were talking about Milner before we sold him. We are not in a position to let players of his ability go else we end up with a team of Smiths and Nolans.
  16. Its not even arguable. The way we are playing this season compared to the way we were in 08/09 is much better. We couldn't even get into the last third of the pitch back then let alone create chances. This really was one of those days, if Williamsons header had of been 6" to the left we would have won this game comfortably. No panic.
  17. That was at Boro was it not.
  18. Yeah actually reading what was said there is no accusation of racism. Neither the Guardian or the Russian says there was racism at that match. Unpleasant sentiments could mean anything.
  19. http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Englands-Goals-By-Club.html
  20. He said at the club, so I take it he was referring to the club he was sacked from and they were talking about at the time.
  21. Bellamy scoring in CL Hearing Shearer had signed while watching Olympic grandstand Albert scoring number 5 and loads of others but they are the ones that stick the most.
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