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It does tend to show a bit of a trend, even in recent years when the traditional difficulties experienced by South American sides is diminishing due to so many of their player's playing in Europe, they still under achieve.

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Right - as I'm not a football person;

If England were to lose on Saturday would they be knocked out?

Does it get shown on sky or normal TV?

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no, although it does greatly reduce their chances of getting through to the next round.

8 groups of 4 teams
the 4 teams play each other once(each team plays 3 games)
3 points for a win, 1 for a draw
top 2 teams from each group qualify for 2nd round

most of(if not all) the matches will be on sky, but they will be shown on BBC or ITV as well

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No they are in a group of 4 so its the top 2 after 3 games who go through.

The games are on BBC and ITV.

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Sky don't have any rights.

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sorry, i thought they did as they kept advertising it in their "summer of sports" adverts

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No channel has exclusive rights, even UK Gold is showing some games :erm:

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ITV and BBC own the Uk rights. They sub-letted (?) them to UKTV any game on UKG2 will also be on either BBC or ITV.

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Are Sky showing any games then?

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Nope. I don't even think they have highlights.

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i just checked and they definitely don't have any highlights of tomorrow's games

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No.

:Yikes:

BBC/BBC HD/ITV/ITV HD + Sky will probably have some kind of rights somewhere!

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It's the eve of your first World Cup game and as a sickeningly nationalist Welshman this goes against everything I have been taught, and it's the last time I will EVER say this, but in the spirit of harmony on CF......

Good Luck England!







I'm now off to scrub myself down with carbolic soap :disturbd:

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Fair play to you Russ - may I be the first to wish good luck for the European qualifiers ;)

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Well, I'd like to wish Good luck to all of the various british teams taking part. It would be nice to have the world cup won by someone from GB.

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