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Originally Posted by thenry
fantastic! he's a million times better than Owen and thats saying something!
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Very interesting.
"It is understood the decision to appoint Gray, widely credited with reinventing football punditry in Britain during almost 20 years at Sky,
is part of a wider strategy to build a relationship with Middle East network beIN Sports, formerly Al Jazeera Sport."
Al Jazeera Sports failed to buy Premiership rights during the last bidding process.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/al-ja...ts-474012.html
The Premiership rights are up for auction at the end of this year. I wonder if BT Sports and beIn Sports are considering a combined bid to take away all rights from SKY? They could split the costs 50/50 and the rights 50/50.
Not unrealistic. BT and beInb Sports could legitimately kill SKY Sports dead. Without Premiership football and Champions League football SKY would be really up against it.