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My wife just said "Does NBC have the rights to the Championship?" and then darted out of the room. Not fucking funny (but becoming a scary thought).

If he takes this team down it will be an absolutely colossal achievement. Even Joe Kinnear would have this squad comfortably mid-table.

Does anyone still think this jackass should be our manager? The players on the field shouldn't look this helpless this often.

This board is so depressing when we're shit.

If it even exists beyond this season there will be very little reason to have it. Just some overflow CL/Europa games in the fall and I guess FA Cup overflow. Not positive though.

@NBCSportsPR: Cablevision, Comcast Xfinity TV, Suddenlink & Verizon FiOS Customers Are First to Receive NBC Sports Network Content #NBCUAmplified This is for the app. Could add more before August, but if one of the above is your provider you're in luck.

I can't believe this thread is still going. Mike's Last Stand

I admire your courage Mike. I also enjoy playoffs as much as the next person. But as others have pointed out, your complaint is with financial inequality on the PL and the fact that the team you support hasn't won anything in ages. If the first wasn't true you would have no gripes. It's actually an incredible setup that makes games in August just as important as games in April/May. And it's just flat out wrong to say this format doesn't always declare the best team as champion. That's precisely what it does do. A playoff format, especially single-round knockout accomplishes the opposite of that. It's the definition of randomness. Sure, it works sometimes. The NCAA Tournament has producers back-to-back champions that were the best team for 5 months. But was Villanova better than Georgetown in '85 or Duke better than UNLV in '91? Not even close. Looking at another sport - do you think the Giants were better than the undefeated Pats in '07? There's a reason why baseball sabermetrics and projection systems like PECOTA can be fairly accurate woth regular season records - the best teams rise to the to with a large bough sample size. They're about as accurate as a coin in the playoffs though. What would you have thought if Newcastle had to play the 4th placed team in a one game playoff during the season in the Championship? 102 points and put in one game. We'd still be down there

Gosling MOTM.

The relegation picture will be very clear if results hold. If we lose...

They are going to come out storming in the 2nd half after seeing the replay. Need to be ready.

Perch took the ball cleanly then the man.

It's in the area, but it's not a fucking foul.

Sunderland winning.

Yeah, but it's worse than you're thinking. It was a gift.

Oh my god. Cisse has to score that.

Cisse

Gouff's workrate today is incredible.

What the hell was that?

My legal stream is awful right now. Sort it out, Fox.

Games will only be on Bravo, MSNBC, etc on the last day of be season. NBC Sports will carry one game in each of the standard timeslots with NBC airing 20 of the Saturday 1230 kickoffs. The rest are on the overflow channels and all are online.

MLS, PL, Tour de France, fishing, NHL, Triple Crown horse racing, Formula 1, plus they own the golf channel. Yeah, you're right on.

Ok, you've returned from the depths of hell with that clarification. But still, Costas crushes the Olympics. Anyway, back to laughing at the UK coverage. Imagine if NFL Sunday Ticket didn't exist, people in the US only got one or two national games and a local game, and Sky carried every single NFL game at no additional cost. That's what we're dealing with here.

He's the worst! I'm speechless.

He's the worst! I'm speechless.