midds Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 It's on Setanta tonight with a kick off of 8.00 pm No highlights on terrestrial tv for the first time in about 40 years apparently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Quite looking forward to this match tbh. At least there'll be one decent side on show. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swissmag Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Quite looking forward to this match tbh. At least there'll be one decent side on show. :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 It's on Setanta tonight with a kick off of 8.00 pm No highlights on terrestrial tv for the first time in about 40 years apparently. Were there highlights of the Andorra match? Setanta are after £1million for the highlights to this game. They paid £5m for the rights and wanted to recoup 20%. Apparently only 1million people have access to the game so they've paid £5 per viewer. Out of business in a year with spending like that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 It's on Setanta tonight with a kick off of 8.00 pm No highlights on terrestrial tv for the first time in about 40 years apparently. Were there highlights of the Andorra match? Setanta are after £1million for the highlights to this game. They paid £5m for the rights and wanted to recoup 20%. Apparently only 1million people have access to the game so they've paid £5 per viewer. Out of business in a year with spending like that! Not sure about the Andorra match but I read something this morning about the lack of coverage from ITV and BBC tonight. Can't blame them like, the last few years of England games have been pretty shit in general. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Am I the only one pleased that setanta have had the rights to these two matches? If it was on I'd watch by default, but now I don't have to watch the whole sorry episode. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebellious Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Was the crowd chanting "We hate setanta" at the last England match ? Or was I just too stoned and imagined it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mucky01 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 No there were no highlights of the Andorra match either. Sentanta have all the England WC qualifiers and a lot of the FA cup matches. twats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Setanta are the most useless load of pricks around. A couple of months ago I tried to get it on the special £6.50 offer to watch a couple of friendlies. Tried online "sorry there's been an error please phone this number" after filling everything in. So I phone the number and after 5 minutes listening to the recorded shit finally get through to someone who tells me I need to phone customer service. So I ask him the wait while I get a pen to write the number down. I come back to the phone and say ok, he says "ready?", I say yes and he says "Ok Goodbye" and hangs up! So then I go to and the website to find the customer service number this backward irish tit was supposed to give me in the first place only to find customer service isn't even open. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Was the crowd chanting "We hate setanta" at the last England match ? Or was I just too stoned and imagined it? Nope... "We hate Setanta" A chant from fans watching England play Andorra at Barcelona's Olympic Stadium. (Mark, UK) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/7606292.stm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatwax Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I have absolutely no desire to watch this match. I doubt much will have changed from the last match. Or the match before that. Or the match before that.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Apparently England is the only country in the world where highlights of the national teams games are not available on terrestrial TV or for free. How true that is I do not know. One thing I do know though, is that it is a disgrace of a situation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stozo Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'll have a watch tonight but I expect us to play utterly boring defensive football and maybe nick a draw or a 1-0 win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatwax Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm more annoyed about the FA cup final than some poxy England matches full of twats with facepaint. Every guy immediately becomes 'Joe Pundit' and tells their mates 'how it should be'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko1892 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 sure i'll be watching tonite, will be interesting to see what happens, will we get humiliated and if so what is capello's reasoning/response, if we win will we be the greatest international club in the world and become huge favourites to win the WC? You know what the media are like with the national side here! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I am sure Setanta have all the away games + no highlights of those games are available to anyone else ITV have the home qualifiers on Live Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko1892 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Setanta have all the aways im sure i heard the advert correctly. Highlights will be available online i bet, either legally or illegally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 This is probably the first time since Germany in 2001 that England go into a Qualifying match of any sorts as underdog. I can actually see England winning this pretty comfortably, maybe 2-0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swissmag Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 This is probably the first time since Germany in 2001 that England go into a Qualifying match of any sorts as underdog. I can actually see England winning this pretty comfortably, maybe 2-0. No way! :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Boy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm more annoyed about the FA cup final than some poxy England matches full of twats with facepaint. Every guy immediately becomes 'Joe Pundit' and tells their mates 'how it should be'. Surely Setanta don't have exclusive coverage of the FA Cup final do they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm more annoyed about the FA cup final than some poxy England matches full of twats with facepaint. Every guy immediately becomes 'Joe Pundit' and tells their mates 'how it should be'. Surely Setanta don't have exclusive coverage of the FA Cup final do they? I thought that the FA Cup final was protected by law for being free to air Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest optimistic nit Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 i think we've a fair chance of winning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mucky01 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm more annoyed about the FA cup final than some poxy England matches full of twats with facepaint. Every guy immediately becomes 'Joe Pundit' and tells their mates 'how it should be'. Surely Setanta don't have exclusive coverage of the FA Cup final do they? The FA Cup final is on ITV for the next few years. The FA Cup rounds will be televised by ITV and Sentanta each channel will broadcast 1 live game per round with ITV getting 1st choice. Only 922,000 watched the Andorra game on Sentanta on Saturday. Sentanta wanted twice the previous rates for terrestrial tv to broadcast highlights for these games. MP’s this week have tried to get the broadcast laws changed to stop this happening in the future, but as Sentanta are purchasing from the foreign hosts you’d better get use to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 England to pull it out the bag and win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Am I the only one pleased that setanta have had the rights to these two matches? If it was on I'd watch by default, but now I don't have to watch the whole sorry episode. That and, No more John Motson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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