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And the idiots have put it back at the bottom.

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Was thinking that myself!

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And the idiots have now put it back at the top.

now leave it there!!!!!!!!!!!

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BT Sport 1HD has the dogs at the bottom.....

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The dogs are only placed at the top for UEFA competitions, starting with the Champions League this week and the Europa League once the competition starts proper.

Dogs in the bottom corner seem to still BT's choice going forward for other competitions where their feed doesn't block the bottom corner.

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Showing it at the bottom is madness, it's always covering the playing surface and this in turn blocks out some of the play, when it's at the top it's nearly always in the crowd and therefore none of the play is blocked.

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exactly. but its probably some late 20s executive working for BT whos on 200k a year and thinks putting the score board at the bottom is "quirky and revolutionary" and will make them stand out against sky sports.

Hiring and keeping the incompetent Michael owen is doing that for them alone.

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Totally agree with the above, he has the most irritating voice I think I've ever heard..........:mad:

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Indeed.

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Who let the DOGs out?

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I don't know why they even need the DOGs in the first place. Most people with a brain know which TV channel they have tuned into, and if they've forgotten just need to press the 'info' button.

Even if they have concluded there is a need for them, I don't know why they have to be so prominent! Why can't they be greyed out so that they are less obtrusive?

Very annoying.

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They are trying to create a branding so that you remember which station you watched.

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Yes, we know that, and look what adverse publicity BT have had over their branding! A greyed out DOG should overcome most objections.

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BT Sport win battle to show England's next Ashes series in Australia in huge blow to Sky

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...ow-to-Sky.html

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God I hope that happens. After the La Liga farce, I won't hold my breath until it is fully confirmed though.

Thanks for the link too.

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I suppose the only issue for BT is the games will be in the early hours won't they ?

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More here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...-80m-coup.html

It's not specifically the Ashes but Australia's home games for the next 5 years which, of course includes the 2016/17 Ashes series.

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Yes, start of games will be about midnight here. Cannot see it bothering Sky to much as only a limited audience.

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Losing the next Ashes will bother SKY as it gives their rivals a foot in the door. The ECB will be very much looking forward to the next tender for domestic matches and SKY will no doubt have to pay a lot more to retain rights or be prepared to share or loose some.

It does now make sense as to why BT paid big sums to sign up Graeme Swann when they only had rights to Caribbean 20:20 cricket

I'm glad to see BT focusing on building up it's sports portfolio outside of just football. If they get next year's US Open tennis I'll be very happy.

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Well l never expected that.:shocked:

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That's what they said about Sky when they first started.

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Haven't sky shown every England away test for about 25 years, I'm sure they'll be bothered. And it seems BT are in this for the long haul, interesting stuff

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Yes its 25 years since it started on Sky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Sports#Cricket

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BT are rumored to have paid £80m for the 5 year contract

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They also have women's cricket and Big Bash leagues and some FTA highlights and some live games too

BT Sport has also acquired free-to-air rights that includes daily highlights of international matches and the Big Bash League, as well as one Big Bash League ‘match of the round’ broadcast live and free each week.

Interesting in that they seem to have also gained FTA content . I imagine it's for BT Sport Showcase, good to see some live cricket returning to fta.

http://www.sportbusiness.com/sport-n...es-broadcaster

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More bad news for us all. i wish bt sport would stop bloody bidding for rights. it means their prices will keep going up and sky sports wont drop their prices. everytime bt win something then our prices go up.

this is terrible news for us all

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All l can say is some people wanted competition to Sky and now that we have got it some seem unhappy.

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Not for me. I will, finally, have the choice to watch pl football (if I want), premiership rugby, and what should be some pretty decent test cricket and to a lesser extent a decent powder puff T20 tournament. Obviously it's not England, but being a neutral has its benefits if a test gets tight.

It won't cost me much more, I simply need to join bt, on a cheap deal nearer the time and get the above heavily reduced in price. It's all good in my eyes.

It's not overly bt's fault prices go up, They do offer their sports dirt cheap. Sky should reduce theirs accordingly. It's just that Sky never will!

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Clearly not bad news for me. An XL subscriber who loves cricket and doesn't have Sky Sports

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Not bad news for US ALL.

I refuse to subscribe to SKY and love cricket so good news for me.

Anyway lets face it is the billions paid for football that is driving up the subs. £80m for 5 years of cricket is nothing, in fact a mere snip compared to £900m for 3 years champions league and £5billion for 3 years Premier League. I doubt this will have much impact on current level of subs.

If you are an England cricket fan it might even save you money as instead of subscribing to SKY, who won't be showing any English cricket in Dec2017/Jan2018, you instead subscribe to BT who are currently cheaper.

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[QUOTE=Richc1977;35794957]Not bad news for US ALL.

I refuse to subscribe to SKY and love cricket so good news for me.

Anyway lets face it is the billions paid for football that is driving up the subs. £80m for 5 years of cricket is nothing, in fact a mere snip compared to £900m for 3 years champions league and £5billion for 3 years Premier League. I doubt this will have much impact on current level of subs.

If you are an England cricket fan it might even save you money as instead of subscribing to SKY, who won't be showing any English cricket in Dec2017/Jan2018, you instead subscribe to BT who are currently cheaper.[/QUOTE]

but for how long the prices will keep going up and up

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For as long as people keep paying them and not cancelling or downgrading significantly. Have Premier League rights reached their peak?

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Prices will always go up regardless as consumers are prepared to pay. That's the unfortunate reality but it's about 90% driven by football.

I doubt these cricket rights are is going impact too much on BT's bottom line and therefore subs. Lets face it, this is £16m a year for the cricket compared to £300m a year for Champions League and Europa.

Its funny as just a few days ago lots of people were cheering SKY about the so called bargain of £18m a year for La Liga rights. When it comes to PR and ratings for The Ashes V El Classico, in my mind the cricket wins, no contest. So a far more sensible purchase for BT in my view.

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BT Sport now targeting England’s Test and one-day series against Pakistan as battle with Sky intensifies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...tensifies.html

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Rubs hands together, that would be the icing on the cake. Plus Bangladesh series next year

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Good point I agree , one thing the competition does is drive sports prices down if you'll shop around.

As an example just look at the discounts offered over the last year or so for Sky Sports , VM have seen the season ticket on the Sky platform people have been reporting tons of half price for 3,6,9,12 months.

The question is would you have been offered this had BT not got involved in Sport ?

BT Sport have also offered discounts if you take their own TV or inclusive with XL if you take VM or £5 for Sky Subscribers who take BT Broadband.

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Just noticed that on the VM EPG on my TiVo that this Saturday's premier league Newc v Arsn match is listed on BTS Europe yet on BT website listed on BTS1, surely a mistake?

Anyone else seeing the same?

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The game is listed as on BT Sport 1/HD on both my Youview EPG and Sky EPG.

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Sky Sports will be showing NFL's Sunday Night Football live for the next two years, bringing viewers an additional game a week and taking the schedule to more than 100 live matches a season.

http://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12...-on-sky-sports

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l was just about to post the same thing MM but you beat me to it.:D

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you mean prices up and up MM only ever go up

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Not really Dave the VM season ticket saved people money , I'm currently paying the least I ever have for my TV package if you are prepared to shop around and potentially change you can save money.

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So no freeview at all this year and next, I am surprised . Thanks for sharing.

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From what I understand BBC are showing the Wembley games live and Superbowl but that's it, not sure if there will even be a highlights show on FTA.

Although not FTA at least Sky will be showing the last 6 Sunday night games on Sky 1.

Real shame it's all on Sky now, was gutted to lose MNF from Eurosport to Sky last year and now SNF too. Very tempted to get the game pass now.

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The problem for me with game pass is no live playoff games.

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Yes I know. Hoping to buy the U.S one, tricky to set up but there are ways ;)

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I use unblock-us for Netflix - which also opens all the blackout games on Gamepass.

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Is there a pay monthly option? So just get the regular season?

I know there is with nba leaguepass, bonus last year when I cancelled halfway through the regular season when it became clear what my team were doing!

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Limited to those able to stay up all night.... Not sure this is not worth more in publicity than in the actual rights themselves?

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I hope you manage to get what you want out of gamepass.:) As you can see I have been a Bears fan for to many years to mention so internet trickery is not on for me��

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Soooooo. BT Sport Europe. massive cross shaped score dog right in the middle of the screen at the top?? Well I suppose at least it's at the top. Can all football please go to sky. At least they know how to present it.

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yes sky are million times better on coverage and was so much better when sky had all the football and much cheaper too

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I think that's from the Danish source feed, it wasn't like that last night. I guess we'll have to wait for another Europa League game before we know.

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I contacted BT Sport, regarding the poor quality of games and that stupid logo, at the bottom of the screen.

They claim that the logo is controlled by the contract they have and many sports in America have it.

I don't watch anything on BT Sport unless Spurs are playing on it.

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So that's never then? :p:

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With this game pass can you watch the games the next day or is it only live? does it cover the entire season? My friend is interested in ways of being able to watch and doesn't have sky

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You can watch all games live (except Sky's early Sunday games) all games are available On Demand including Archive games , NFL Network Live and On Demand plus much more.

https://gamepass.nfl.com/nflgp/secure/packages

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse , a game with no Michael Owen and we are subjected to Robbie Savage :banghead:

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Ah come on who doesn't love Robbie Savage?:D

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Yes sadly another poor pundit who as soon as l hear his voice l quickly turn the volume to mute.:(:td:

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Had exactly the same thought :D

Robbie & Owen surplus to requirements in the commentary box, just having Hoddle without either of them would be so much better.

Sort that out and the logos and then BT's coverage would be pretty good. Ian Wright was on great form today.

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In other news, I see Sky Sports News are making a big deal about winning the rights to show the Pakistan tests, something that would probably have hardly been a headline a few weeks ago.

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BT should employ Andy Gray, best there is.

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Agree 100%. :clap:

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Yes l quite agree chaps.

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Don't think he will leave is mate Richard. The pair seem inseparable.
They seem to be doing quite well on Bein sports. Didn't realise how big Bein Sport have got.

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What platform is Bein Sport on? What football do they show?

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I'm pretty sure they're Qatar based and have satellite and internet operations throughout the Middle East. I subscribed to their service a while ago but cancelled after a couple of weeks as the promised Premier League games weren't being shown on their internet channels. From memory, they had a couple of dozen sports channels and covered football from all over the world, rugby, cricket etc. etc. They also had general entertainment & documentary channels as well as numerous movie channels similar to those that Sky offer. It's a big operation and I don't think they're short of a bob or two.

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So anyone with a computer could subscribe I guess? Can you get any of their channels on the a Sky box,I.e. by manually tuning in?

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No, the satellite footprint is restricted to the Middle East & N. Africa. They weren't too fussy about taking my money but a lot of their football rights don't allow internet transmission, which is what I wanted - they refunded my money very quickly and without any hassles.

Not too sure if Premier League Pass operating out of NZ may be worth looking at.

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OK thanks for that. Does sound like it's not for me as I only like football when it comes to sport

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You may be interested in this thread then

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...71817&page=276

I've linked to the last page but if you go backwards you'll get the idea. Don't start from the beginning because the thread was started 2 years ago.

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Thanks for that will have to read it properly when I haven't been drinking:D

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Green Bay @ Chicago to be shown live on Pick TV on the 13th September.

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How much is sky sports and hd package on m+?

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HD is £7 SS is £29.95 I think

The legal stuff looks wrong

Sky Sports HD & Sky Movies HD: You must subscribe to Sky Sports and/or Sky Movies in SD to take these channels in HD. Sky Sports 3 HD and Sky Sports 4 HD are not included. Sky Movies Premiere +1 not available in HD. It's £7 a month for Sky Sports and Sky Movies in HD.

All Sky sports channels are available in HD

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I note that we still haven't got the BT Showcase channel. Does anyone know what the delay is all about and when we will be able to pick it up on VM?

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As far as I understand it we get BT freeview on channel 548 for FTA matches, showcase is reserved for freeview

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That was my understanding, but it's not broadcasting yet on VM, although it is on Freeview.

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I think it will only broadcast when there is FTA, it's not 24 hours per say AFAIK

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Nothing appears to be scheduled yet on the EPG.

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No, the EPG will only be updated very near to when the matches are shown. This lack of certainty helps encourage subscriptions to BT Sport.

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548 carried the Man Utd game last week on VM - BT have not yet announced the next 'free' game which will be on 15 or 16 Sept.

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To confirm, BT Sport Showcase is not coming to VM. That's why BT Sport Europe is unscrambled on 548 on VM from time to time but only when the FTA matches are on.

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It's a dastardly game they are playing! :mad:

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Good news for NFL fans using a VPN:

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/09/cbs...source=mainrss

CBS Will Stream Two Regular NFL Games Free

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Looks as if BT are going to show (as I predicted ) the first pick CL game on BT Sport Europe and second pick on BT Sport 2, so two games in HD for Virgin Media and Sky users

Interestingly the Showcase game is Wednesday again (may be a regular thing) and on both days there is a game on BT Sport Extra 1 meaning BT Sport lite will get at least one game per night.

This what what was quoted on digital spy

Full schedule:

Tuesday September 15: Paris Saint-Germain v Malmo - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 3)
Tuesday September 15: Real Madrid v Shakhtar Donetsk - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 1)
Tuesday September 15: Wolfsburg v CSKA Moscow - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 4)
Tuesday September 15: PSV v Manchester United - 7.30pm (BT Sport 2)
Tuesday September 15: Galatasaray v Atletico Madrid - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 5)
Tuesday September 15: Benfica v Astana - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 6)
Tuesday September 15: Manchester City v Juventus - 7.30pm (BT Sport Europe / BT Sport Ultra HD)
Tuesday September 15: Sevilla v Borussia Monchengladbach - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 2)

Wednesday September 16: Bayer Leverkusen v BATE Borisov - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 5)
Wednesday September 16: Roma v Barcelona - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 1/BT Sport Showcase)
Wednesday September 16: Dinamo Zagreb v Arsenal - 7.30pm (BT Sport Europe)
Wednesday September 16: Olympiakos v Bayern Munich - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 2)
Wednesday September 16: Dynamo Kyiv v Porto - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 4)
Wednesday September 16: Chelsea v Maccabi Tel-Aviv - 7.30pm (BT Sport 2)
Wednesday September 16: Valencia v Zenit - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 3)
Wednesday September 16: Gent v Lyon - 7.30pm (BT Sport Extra 6)

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Free NFL game: Green Bay Packers @ Chicago Bears will be shown on September 13th from 5.30pm on Pick, Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports 3 HD.

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BT to offer sport channel refunds to customers.

http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/new..._to_customers/

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NFL: BBC agrees two-year deal to show live games & highlights

The deal includes:

-coverage of Super Bowl 50 on TV, radio and online,
-a weekly highlights show will run on BBC Two and online from early November.
-All three matches at London's Wembley Stadium will be broadcast live on either BBC Two or the BBC Red Button.
-The BBC Sport website and mobile app will carry the best on-demand video clips throughout the new season, which begins on Thursday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/american-football/34195573

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Good news for those who cannot afford the PPV premium sports channels.

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Sky Sports adds even more England Test cricket

https://corporate.sky.com/media-cent...d-test-cricket

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Sky Sports extends deal to keep Scottish football until 2019/20.

http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...l-until-201920

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They seem to be getting very defensive about being the 'home of cricket', Could it be because BT sports have got the next Ashes series ? It seems to have upset Sky a lot !

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Well you know what Rupert is like when he is upset.....;)

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You'd have to ask them that , personally I'd sooner watch paint dry over cricket incredibly boring game in my opinion.

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What's boring about it MM?.

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The question should be more what's not boring about it :D Just my personal view of course I know plenty like it.

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Well each to their own likes and dislikes but its a far more interesting game then you think MM.

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Heathen!!!!!:p::D

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You might get your chance if VM signs up the Craft channel.