Zatman Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 he didnt really badmouth United in fairness, he just it said was a red. find it funny in ireland a lot of the united fans that backed him in 2002 are saying how he is a disgrace and talks rubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Real loyal fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 With regards to Roy Keane. I dont think he is talking for effect. I think he is saying what he thinks and he does not care who he upsets, although I feel he is still bitter about the way he exited the club in 2005. Thorughout his career he would say similar things. I remember when manchester got knocked out of the champions league in 2003 to Madrid he said similar things ''we are not good enough'', ''perhaps the premier league is not as good as we think'' By the way I can see why some would think he is an arrogant moody prick. But I absolutely love it when he is a pundit. He is great viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Jamie redknapp on sky failing to see that INTENT didnt mean **** all last night. Ray wilkins talking sense though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 The Premier League is going through a tough patch. All leagues do at some point. Spain has overtaken it. But he can't badmouth United off the back of a terrible decision that decided the result. United were on course to knock the current in-form side from the best league in the world out of the competition. Well in fairness to Roy... he didn't actually bad mouth Utd did he? He just suggested the ref was in the right. Good article about his comments here I thought: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/mar/06/roy-keane-manchester-united Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 ITV peddling the myth that moyes has done a job with no money to spend on a tight budget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaForever1970 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 ITV are currently the worse, Townsend especially bloody woeful.He basically said during a Chelsea game a couple of weeks ago that Terry is never bad, thats not true is it Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Bbc bumming redknapp AGAIN!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Bbc bumming redknapp AGAIN!! Greatest living English manager,for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdabush Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Hate how obvious it is that so many in the media want their mate, Harry to keep QPR up. They had the best squad of the relegation strugglers, they spent more than anyone bar Newcastle in January and yet he's being hailed as a miracle worker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Tony Gubba dies at 69. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 11, 2013 Author Moderator Share Posted March 11, 2013 Awww RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 at least you guys dont have Kenny Cunningham with such wisdom as this Bayern team has lots of youth then named Robben and Van Buyten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 not sure if people can see this but this is Lawro prediction table so far http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151518793944914&set=a.120394649913.99581.108803784913&type=1&theater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 (edited) QPR 6th Spurs 8th Sunderland 10th Edited April 2, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 30, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2013 NBC picks up Lineker for US coverage Lee Dixon, Gary Lineker and "Match of the Day" are to be key elements in NBC's Premier League campaign. NBC, which paid $250m for the US broadcast rights to the English Premier League, unveiled its coverage at the Rockefeller Center in New York on Tuesday and promised an unprecedented package of total live coverage of the league when coverage starts with the new season. In an event at the center's Studio 8, more typically used for the Sunday night NFL pre-game show, NBC executives, alongside Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, announced details of a broadcast plan that will make extensive use of digital platforms as well as the broader NBC cable family of channels (particularly on the final day of the season when every game will be broadcast simultaneously across a variety of channels including Bravo, E!, USA, MSNBC and others). The lead play-by-play coverage will come from Arlo White, already known to many US soccer fans for leading NBC's recent MLS coverage, and before that as the voice of the Seattle Sounders. He will relocate to the UK, where he will front some 75 games next season, and where he will be joined by Lee Dixon and Graeme Le Saux as live analysts. Back in the US, new studio host Rebecca Lowe will be joined at the main studio in Stamford, Connecticut, by Robbie Mustoe and Robbie Earle (the latter, like White, has a strong US pedigree through his own connection to coverage of the domestic league). The network have also brought in Gary Lineker as a "special contributor" and occasional online host for studio coverage originating in the UK. The 20 live games that will be shown on network television, plus the extensive cross-promotional possibilities across the NBC family, from the Today show to lifestyle TV channels, were an undoubted attraction from the Premier League's side, as they seek to build awareness of the sport, let alone the brand, over the course of a three-year deal, which begins to edge the game further out of its subscription niche, following the existing deal with Fox. Much play was made at the launch of the long Premier League season and the ability the network will have to integrate coverage alongside existing sporting coverage of American institutions such as the Kentucky Derby, Notre Dame football, and more global events such as the Tour de France and Formula One racing (for which NBC recently acquired rights). But for all the increased accessibility of the "basic package" profile of the league, the key to the package is the positioning of the NBCSN channel as the "host" of the coverage. The so-called "Extra Time" digital coverage which will give fans the full range of games is in theory free to all NBCSN subscribers, but while NBC are making all those options fully available, individual subscribers will still need to be sure their cable providers are carrying the full package. While it's unlikely that there will be a be IN TV/Time Warner style impasse keeping people from accessing the channels in the first place, the scale of the undertaking means there may be some teething problems. Those problems may be cultural as much as technological, something Scudamore acknowledged at the event in a passing tongue-in-cheek reference to "the Queen's English". Afterwards White was clear that while he had no problem deferring to the common US name of "soccer" ("it's an English term …") he would be sticking with conventions such as "top corner" and "penalty" over "Upper 90" and "PK". He also acknowledged that the MLS audience he has been addressing in the few years since leaving the BBC might overlap with the existing US Premier League audience, but be a different proposition in terms of how they're addressed. White also spoke of the range of live games meaning that commentary voices that US viewers have become used to will still feature as part of the partnerships NBC will make. Beyond the live coverage, which will be in fixed time slots, including a live game at the Saturday 12.30pm ET time slot on NBC itself (in order to build a consistent presence), there will be a whole raft of secondary programming and content, including a half hour goals show on Sundays, a two hour Saturday highlights show, "Match of the Day", modeled on the BBC show, and cut-down games from marquee teams such as the two Manchester sides, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham, in distinct Monday and Tuesday night programmes. If the latter development raised a few eyebrows, Scudamore was unapologetic, claiming that in the Premier League "we celebrate the ladder" ie the fact that the 20 teams in the Premier League are top of a pyramid of some 40,000 English sides, and that the top ones are playing en route to European competition. Rather than the attempts at forced parity of American sports, the Premier League not only accepts but encourages the power of elite brands. Speaking in front of a giant photographic mural of Old Trafford, he mentioned how "thankful" the league were that the "top team in the world" was in their league, and spoke critically of for example Scottish clubs encouraging the "top brands" of Rangers and Celtic in breakaway talk. Scudamore also deflected the issue of certain US televisual conventions meeting UK sporting ones. Where locker room access is built into the codes and conventions of many US sports, Scudamore spoke of the "mystery of the dressing room" as part of the essence of the game, though beside him the NBC execs Mark Lazarus and Jon Miller suggested that they may try to "respectfully" push for more access "once we've proved ourselves as partners" (Lazarus). And they will be significant partners. The new deal moves the US from outside the top ten into the top five of territorial partners for the Premier League, among some 200 territories where deals are in place. A repeated phrase at the launch was "all in". On paper at least, that's what NBC are promising. * All 380 matches presented live on television with studio pre- and post-game coverage * NBC Sports Extra Live: Every Barclays Premier League match will be streamed live via NBC Sports Live Extra, the NBC Sports Group's live streaming product for desktop, mobile and tablets and, in most cases, on the digital platforms of participating cable, satellite, telco and other video subscription services. The vast majority of Barclays Premier League matches will be streamed via "TV Everywhere," available on an authenticated basis to subscribers of these services. * Premier League Extra Time: All games not aired on a designated NBCUniversal channel will be made available to distributors on Premier League Extra Time, a package of overflow television channels available at no extra cost for each of their customers who receives NBC Sports Network. * Championship Sunday: NBCUniversal will present each match of Championship Sunday live across a host of NBCU channels, including NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, USA, MSNBC, E! and more. * Studio and original programming: NBC Sports Network will present more than 600 hours each year of studio and original programming surrounding Premier League. Shows include: - Premier League 36: NBC Sports Network's series that follows athletes for the 36 hours leading up to a game/match/race comes to the Premier League.- Premier League Goal Zone: A 30-minute program airing after the matches on Sunday with highlights of all the goals scored on Saturday and Sunday. - Game Cut-Downs: On Monday nights, NBCSN will present a two-hour show featuring cut-down versions of the Manchester United and Manchester City matches. On Tuesdays, a two-hour program will feature the Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Tottenham matches. - Match of the Day and Match of the Day 2, plus Match of the Week: On Sunday nights, NBCSN will re-air the best match of the weekend in its entirety So most of the 90% or so of Americans who pay for cable or satellite TV will be getting every PL game live. There's nothing directly saying that BBC MOTD will be repurposed for the US (read: have adverts added), though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Gnev was superb tonight, spot on about Newcastle signing all this french players "Your Newcastles, Liverpools, manchesters, these are northern cities where dinners at 12 and teas at 5" It was like Churchill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaGoMarching Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 is there any way of watching Monday night football? i don't have sky though. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 carragher has been confirmed for sky next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 30, 2013 Author Moderator Share Posted April 30, 2013 I know We have to listen to that word removed now. He has a far worse accent than Neville and I seriously doubt if he'll be anywhere near as good as Gary. Hopefully he's just the mascot that sits at the far end in the studio, a bit like the way Ian Wright is used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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