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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT2| @agent_89: My sources tell me the season has started

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Regulus Tera

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K1LLER7 said:
is he any good, will he solve our mdfield problems?
please say yes
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Nobody knew who he was six months ago. Then he got on the Olympic team and fucking everyone loves him right now. He's a horsework in the central midfield and he has a lot of projection from box to box.
 
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PaulLFC

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So according to the Telegraph ITV are in talks with BT to show some of their Premier League matches...

ITV could show live Premier League football matches for the first time in its history under a tie-up with BT, it can be revealed.

BT is in talks to allow the broadcaster to screen on a terresterial channel some of the 154 sought-after games that it secured for £738m, as well as to produce the coverage of the matches.

The agreement would allow BT to showcase a sample of the content it offers on its own pay-television service, BT Vision, and also to recoup a portion of its outlay on the high profile matches.

Marc Watson, BT Vision’s chief executive, said earlier this year that it wanted to use the live TV rights as a “calling card” with which to sell other products. “This is about creating the opportunity to build more customer relationships,” he said days after the deal was clinched in June.

BT made a surprise entry into the market for live Premier League football rights - dominated until now by BSkyB - when it struck a deal for 38 matches a season for three years from 2013. Analysts and investors lambasted the company for taking such a big bet on the rights, but it has since emerged that BT had been after an even bigger share of the Premier League football games.

BT lodged bids for all seven of the “packages” in which Premier League rights are auctioned, although it would not have been allowed more than five for competition reasons. In the end, BT won two Premier League packages, handing it first pick of 18 matches.

“They seriously intended to get two thirds of the matches which would have been devastating to BSkyB,” said a source.

Even at this level, it poses a serious threat to BSkyB. The pay-TV broadcaster, which is 39pc owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, has built its business on top-tier football rights, and effectively created the Premier League in the early nineties by ploughing huge sums into securing key matches.

Its absolute stranglehold on the rights was loosened in the latest auction, and it was forced to pay about 40pc more than in previous years to retain the lion’s share of Premier League matches. BSkyB paid £2.28bn, or £760m a year, to show 116 matches over the three years, more than even its most senior managers had expected. The company lost more than £500m in value the next day of trading, as analysts cut their forecasts for its performance in 2014/15.

By acting in concert, ITV and BT will be much better placed to mount a serious challenge to BSkyB, one of their fiercest competitors. ITV wrangles with BSkyB for viewers and advertisers, while BT regularly loses broadband and telephone customers to the pay-TV company because they sign up for its bundled deals. Neither company has the werewithal to tackle BSkyB single-handed but together they could make a serious dent.

It can also be diclosed that BT is in talks with ITV and various other companies to produce its live football coverage and help it launch a dedicated channel. It is about to send out tender documents to the television company, which has a large in-house production business and experience of producing sports coverage for international broadcasters such as Al Jazeera. ITV is understood to be keen to pitch for the contract, whose value is estimated at around £100m over the three years.

The tender document will also go to specialist sports production companies such as IMG Worldwide, All3Media’s subsidiary North One Television, and Sunset + Vine, part of the Welsh production group Tinnopolis, as well as a handful of other production firms without a particular reputation for sport.

BT declined to comment whilst an ITV spokesman denied that the broadcaster was talking to the company about taking Premier League rights.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...lks-with-BT-to-show-Premier-League-games.html

Would be huge if it actually happened.
 
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Jeff Albertson

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Happy girthday mate!

My word that thread is incredible, I could feel the ownage from here, he was beat into submission with one post, he had such a cocky demeanour with his first post and then had literally no choice but to basically admit he's a huge loser!


Edit: hope that happens, I work for BT and it sounds like a deal that would be good for my sharesaves!
 
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K1LLER7

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Regulus Tera said:
Nobody knew who he was six months ago. Then he got on the Olympic team and fucking everyone loves him right now. He's a horsework in the central midfield and he has a lot of projection from box to box.
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Didn't see much of him at the olympics but from what your saying he could be a replacement for Fletcher. Exactly what our midfield needs so hopefully we get him.

Happy B-day Kharma45 :)
 
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fadetoblack

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I'd help you out Pulga but you don't want much of my Calabrese infiltrating your essay. But holistically, is it good enough? Certamente. There's certain constructions that don't necessarily sound 100% natural to me. Small stuff like I'd have "lo che era per me una notte specialmente magnifica e memorabile." rather than having the "per me" at the end. You know? But there's nothing in there that are glaring that you should worry about. That type of stuff comes naturally after years of speaking it.
 
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elseanio

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No one brought the cake out?

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near

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G-Unit said:
I´m calling it guys, Arsenal is cursed
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Imagine all the players they sold stayed in time for there peak age, Arsenal invisibles part 2 would have commenced. Shame. Now its a matter of dibs on the next player to step up, until there are no more players to step up.
 
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Salvadora

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Arsenal’s move for Nuri Sahin has gone through after stalling over a £14m buy-out clause if they decide to make his loan deal permanent next summer.
Sportsmail revealed on Tuesday how the deal for the Real Madrid midfielder had hit a snag as Real wanted a fixed price of £14m attached to the deal if Arsenal decide to take up the option of signing the Turkey midfielder once his loan ends.
However, there seems to have been a compromise between the parties and the Gunners have finally got their man.
The Gunners were so confident of securing Sahin’s services that they planned a photo shoot on Monday ahead of his official unveiling. The club called a halt to the shoot after the last minute problem.
The Gunners are also expecting to offload Andrey Arshavin before the close of the transfer window after Zenit St Petersburg revived their interest in the Russia forward. Arsenal are desperate to shift Arshavin’s £70,000 a week off the wage bill.
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If this is true I'm gonna cum
 
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DangerousMali

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If Nuri Sahin comes to arsenal with a buyout clause im going to be soo smug!

he is quality, loved him at dortmund, even if it's a regular loan, his going to be class in an arsenal top!
 
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Sviatoslav

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If Arsenal is so desperate to get rid of Arshavin's wages then why did we bid so much for him? I expected better than that from you Spalletti. Clearly your new mustache is messing with your brain.
 
pulga

pulga

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fadetoblack said:
I'd help you out Pulga but you don't want much of my Calabrese infiltrating your essay. But holistically, is it good enough? Certamente. There's certain constructions that don't necessarily sound 100% natural to me. Small stuff like I'd have "lo che era per me una notte specialmente magnifica e memorabile." rather than having the "per me" at the end. You know? But there's nothing in there that are glaring that you should worry about. That type of stuff comes naturally after years of speaking it.
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Probably my spanish creeping in, trying to translate it 100% to italian :lol but thanks! Sounds good :)
 
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elsk

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Regulus Tera said:
According to ESPN Deportes Radio here in the USA: Manchester United has offered 16 million dollars to Pachuca for Héctor Herrera.

If true, this is the biggest transaction ever done in Mexican football.
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I think he's a great midfielder, obviously the price was hugely inflated thanks to the Olympics and Toulon Tournament :p
 
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Grover Cleveland

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kharma45 said:
And so it begins, the inevitable buzzing from my phone from Facebook birthday posts.

Knew I should've deactivated the bloody thing for today.
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Happy Birthday!

Regulus Tera said:
Nobody knew who he was six months ago. Then he got on the Olympic team and fucking everyone loves him right now. He's a horsework in the central midfield and he has a lot of projection from box to box.
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Music to my ears, if true.

Please don't be a flash in the pan
 
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Mumei

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I am watching Celtic at Helsinborgs IF.

why is everyone's passing so bad
why is no one where they are supposed to be
why do they keep kicking it in random spots where no one is standing
why are they taking shots and then kicking it 15 feet wide of the goal
why can no one dribble it past anyone

why why why
 
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elsk

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WoodenLung said:
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I like how the other player saw the chance to finally recover the ball and went for it.

Mumei said:
I am watching Celtic at Helsinborgs IF.

why is everyone's passing so bad
why is no one where they are supposed to be
why do they keep kicking it in random spots where no one is standing
why are they taking shots and then kicking it 15 feet wide of the goal
why can no one dribble it past anyone

why why why
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Just watch the Gladbach-Kiev match.
 
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Arnie

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Mumei said:
I am watching Celtic at Helsinborgs IF.

why is everyone's passing so bad
why is no one where they are supposed to be
why do they keep kicking it in random spots where no one is standing
why are they taking shots and then kicking it 15 feet wide of the goal
why can no one dribble it past anyone

why why why
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Scottish football.

Avoid at all costs.
 
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Broder Salsa

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Mumei said:
I am watching Celtic at Helsinborgs IF.

why is everyone's passing so bad
why is no one where they are supposed to be
why do they keep kicking it in random spots where no one is standing
why are they taking shots and then kicking it 15 feet wide of the goal
why can no one dribble it past anyone

why why why
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Helsingborg are from a complete shit league and are not a very good team. Scottish football has been in decline for years and Celtic usually suck hard when playing away matches out of country.
 
FootballFan

FootballFan

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Mumei said:
I am watching Celtic at Helsinborgs IF.

why is everyone's passing so bad
why is no one where they are supposed to be
why do they keep kicking it in random spots where no one is standing
why are they taking shots and then kicking it 15 feet wide of the goal
why can no one dribble it past anyone

why why why
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Just watch that 2nd half of El Clasico.
 
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