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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT6| Mumei almost banned EVERYBODY (but just Wilbury)

FuturusX

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Is there a better footballing GIF?
 

Salazar

Member
His opinion, not mine. Maybe Hiddink started hanging out with Wenger.

Beckett-influenced buddy movie.

Hiddink keeps saying to go and get something to eat. Wenger always jokily responds no, no, too expensive, we must show faith.

They waste away, Hiddink taking longer, naturally, to starve.
 

Meier

Member
Huge news regarding EPL coverage here in America...

NBC Universal has emerged as the clear front-runner in the race to pick up U.S. rights to the EPL as part of a three-year deal starting with the '13-14 season, according to multiple informed sources.
Sources say NBC's bid would pay the EPL around $83M per year, an amount that would more than triple the $23M per year that Fox currently pays. Sources say Fox and ESPN have been told that their joint bid was not accepted. It is not clear if the Al Jazeera network, BeIN Sport, still is in the running.
NBC's bid faced a lot of strong competition. The EPL last sold its rights three years ago to Fox Soccer, which wound up sub-licensing about 80 games per season to ESPN. The two submitted a similar bid this week. Terms of the deal are not known, but a source described Fox/ESPN's losing bid as aggressive. Friday morning was the deadline for submitting the new bids to the EPL. The loss of the EPL could sting Fox Soccer, which relies heavily on EPL matches and analysis shows for programming.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2012/10/26/EPL.aspx

Fox Soccer may as well close up shop. They lost almost every other league to beIN here in the US... this would leave them with the Champions League and more or less nothing else. Can't imagine the UCL rights have more than a year or two left on them as well.
 

Meier

Member
I get Fox Soccer and Fox Soccer Plus as a part of the sports package I pay for but TWC has not added beIN yet so I was terrified about them winning the rights. Frankly, I'm shocked that Fox and ESPN lost out.. this is a market that is quickly expanding. FSC and FSP will essentially be ghost towns now.

I just hope that NBC hires Ian Darke and Macca.. it is an absolute joy to watch games broadcast by them (Ian in particular).

I've never heard of beIN

It's a brand new station owned by Al-Jazeera. They started in France and got the Ligue 1 rights then out of nowhere, popped up here in the US and got La Liga and Serie A (Bundesliga is on Gol TV which will definitely go under I'd imagine) amongst others. It is only available to something like 10% of the country right now.

Fox Soccer essentially only has the EPL right now in terms of European leagues and are obviously losing that. It will be very interesting to see what happens to the channels. FSC has been around for 15 years now apparently.. time flies.
 

AndresON777

shooting blanks
:lol :lol

Gotta take it easy today though, tomorrows the halloween party. Any of you guys dressing up this year and doing something special?

I hate halloween. I havn't dressed up in years. I still have my matrix twins headpiece lol


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Boom just picked up Lewandoski for 2300 coins. Awesome. Too bad Reus and Gotze are so much more expensive. Already have Gundogan
 

rodvik

Member
Huge news regarding EPL coverage here in America...




http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2012/10/26/EPL.aspx

Fox Soccer may as well close up shop. They lost almost every other league to beIN here in the US... this would leave them with the Champions League and more or less nothing else. Can't imagine the UCL rights have more than a year or two left on them as well.

Whats NBC Universal? is it a cable channel? Right now I get EVERY EPL game on Fox, so I can record them all and watch anyone I want. I would be mad as hell if some NBC got the right and the only games available were their "picks" (IE: top 4 or nothing).
 
I hate halloween. I havn't dressed up in years. I still have my matrix twins headpiece lol


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Boom just picked up Lewandoski for 2300 coins. Awesome. Too bad Reus and Gotze are so much more expensive. Already have Gundogan[/QUOTE]

I have Reus, Gotze, and Gundogan dealwitit.gif
 

AndresON777

shooting blanks
Whats NBC Universal? is it a cable channel? Right now I get EVERY EPL game on Fox, so I can record them all and watch anyone I want. I would be mad as hell if some NBC got the right and the only games available were their "picks" (IE: top 4 or nothing).

It used to be called Versus. Yep I get Fox sports and espn2 for epl. I don't have plus though

I have Reus, Gotze, and Gundogan dealwitit.gif

lol. Gotze really impressed me yesterday


edit-meant wednesday
 

Wilbur

Banned
Casino Royale's still a class film. After the torture sequence it gets a little slow, with Bond frolicking about on the beach and whatnot, but the action scenes are fantastic, and the poker scenes are tense as fuck. Can't wait for Skyfall.

Also I'm going as man in the shower for Halloween.
 

K1LLER7

Member
Just come back from watching Skyfall, didn't plan too, but decided to give it a watch. Wasn't all that tbh. Liked it better than Batman, all thanks to Javier Bardem. Dude is an amazing actor.
 

ATF487

Member
Whats NBC Universal? is it a cable channel? Right now I get EVERY EPL game on Fox, so I can record them all and watch anyone I want. I would be mad as hell if some NBC got the right and the only games available were their "picks" (IE: top 4 or nothing).

I think NBC Universal just the parent company, the games would likely be on NBC Sports, which used to be Versus and the Outdoor life Network before that. I feel like it's now in most cable packages; they do MLS games and NHL games (when there is a season...)

I wonder when more providers are going to pick up Bein Sport, I thought FiOS would have it by now
 

Slizz

Member
Fuck beIN, would love for the PL to be on NBC and NBC Sports.... no more watching PL games in Spanish on Fox Deportessss
 

sazabirules

Unconfirmed Member
NBC just picked up the rights to F1 for next year too. Won't there be time conflicts with some EPL matches if they outbid beIN?

Couldn't they matches on the regional CSN channels?
 
Eboue is God

@TheRealEboue: Is it true Arsenal's trophy cabinet has been redesigned to include new fourth place trophies? Just asking .. Please don't laugh .
 
Why do so many people think that Eboue account is real?

Has to be the best parody account there is. It's hilarious and somehow manages to convince people it's him.
 
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