Comments on: The Sweeper: Is television coverage of World Cup qualifiers a fans’ right?

By: Job Openings

Job Openings — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:03:00 +0000

I hope Ukraine wins. England doesn’t even needs this win. Go Ukraine!

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Sports pages I’ve enjoyed this week « Wait until next year — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:52:44 +0000

[...] England game against Ukraine is only on the internet. Pitch Invasion and Twohundredpercent share their thoughts on it. I think it’s an interesting development, [...]

By: c perrz

c perrz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:27:15 +0000

I think it is dusgusting that the England Ukraine game is not televised. How are we to support England when we can not even see the game. Oh, I forgot, we have to switch the news on later in the evening and find the out the score, and then either be sad if we lose or jump for joy if we win. What is going on. I am in Gemany at the moment and will watch their game against Russia at 5 pm on their normal TV. No one has to pay here to see their national team play. Its beyond comprehension.

By: England Fan In Canada

England Fan In Canada — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:56:53 +0000

Am currently in Canada for a while, and trying to find out how to watch the Ukraine v England game on saturday – I can’t even PPV for the only service, its not available here. Setanta usually show games like this on their subscription service, but they seem to have screwed that up this time, with the game seemingly only being available to bars/clubs etc via ‘premium’ service which isn’t available in home.

Disappointing as me and a bunch of Ukrainian friends had planned to have a football party afternoon at home rather than have to pay out to get into a bar and then more for drinks etc etc. Looks like thats the only choice now, can’t seem to find any other tv channel over here who claim to be showing it on ‘normal’ TV…

Frustrated England fan in Canada

By: Viking

Viking — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

Over here our national public broadcaster has sold the rights to show the World Cup 2010 to a pay per view company to finance their hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest

By: The England and USA Games Will Not Be Televised - World Cup Blog

The England and USA Games Will Not Be Televised - World Cup Blog — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:19:34 +0000

[...] Dunmore at Pitch Invasion has a similar, but maybe better idea: A solution could be for confederations to manage rights sales as a bloc and ensure they are sold [...]

By: Adrian Ludbrook

Adrian Ludbrook — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:35:47 +0000

The FA should handle the rights to all England games, not UEFA. In the past all England games would be shown on terrestrial television. Setanta stepped in, the result the lowest viewing figures ever for the Setanta broadcast games, less then 10% of the average viewing figures. Now this game will smash that record again, there are already cries to boycott the subscription service. The public have driven Setanta out of the UK, let’s do the same to these other parasites like Kentaro. You are not wanted, leave our game alone. There is huge support for simply boycotting these services here, the result being we drove Setanta out of business in the UK. Watch and learn rest of the world, at the end of the day we the people have the power, it’s just knowing how to use it.

By: Akashastar

Akashastar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:07:40 +0000

RE PPV games in England: Now they will now how people in Canada feel. All England games, qualifiers and even friendlies are only available on Pay per View here. Why? Because they know that we will pay for it – even if it’s not really worth it.