Top Up TV signs deal with ESPN to broadcast Premier League football August 4, 2009 TOP UP TV, the media group that offers premium content to Freeview, yesterday signed a carriage deal with ESPN to show top football this season and signalled that it hoped to offer subscribers Sky Sports 1 & 2 by the end of the first half of next year. Top Up founder and former BSkyB stalwart [...]
Reds agree to sell Alonso to Real for 34m August 4, 2009 LIVERPOOL midfielder Xabi Alonso will today complete his long-awaited move to Real Madrid after the two clubs finally agreed a £34m deal last night. Months of haggling were brought to a close when Liverpool accepted a package thought to be worth £30m up front and a further £4m based on his performance at Real. The [...]
Benitez lines up Aquilani to replace Real-bound Alonso August 3, 2009 LIVERPOOL boss Rafael Benitez has wasted no time in replacing Xabi Alonso by closing in on the signing of Roma’s Alberto Aquilani. Reports in Europe suggest Benitez has already had a £15.2m bid for the midfielder accepted by the Italian club, while his representatives were thrashing out a deal with big-spending Real over the future [...]
KICK OFF AT ESPN UK August 2, 2009 ESPN will today become the first non-UK channel to show Premier League football in the UK, as it launches its ESPN UK channel on Sky and Virgin Media. The channel will show 46 live Barclays Premier League matches – which it bought the rights to after Setanta UK went into administration – plus a selection [...]
Virgin nets a key deal with Disney’s ESPN July 29, 2009 ESPN, the Disney-owned media group that has picked up live Premier League football rights from the defunct Setanta, yesterday agreed a carriage deal with Virgin Media, the cable company. The deal is similar to Virgin’s previous deal with Setanta, whereby Virgin customers paying for the highest television package will get the channel, which will show [...]
Eduardo fears for Arsenal as Toure seals 16m City switch July 29, 2009 ARSENAL striker Eduardo believes the departure of defender Kolo Toure has virtually killed off the Gunners’ hopes of winning the Premier League. Toure, the last remaining member of the famous Invincibles team from 2003-04, last night completed a £16m move to Manchester City. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has already sold £25m striker Emmanuel Adebayor – [...]
Skipper Terry rejects Man City to stick with Chelsea July 26, 2009 CHELSEA captain John Terry yesterday pledged his future to the club, insisting there was never any possibility he would be lured by a lucrative offer from Manchester City. England skipper Terry broke his silence to end weeks of speculation that he was ready to halt his 14-year association with Chelsea and become ambitious City’s most [...]
SPREAD BETTING PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW July 23, 2009 THE BIG question for any football punter prior to this season is ‘can Man City break into the Big Four?’. Mark Hughes has spent millions and although it looks like he’s been unsuccessful in his bid for John Terry, people are starting to sit up and take notice. Sporting Index are predicting that City will [...]
Maradona in shock link to Portsmouth July 23, 2009 PORTSMOUTH’S new owner Sulaiman Al Fahim last night distanced himself from sensational claims that Argentina boss Diego Maradona wants to join Pompey and bring a host of superstars with him. Maradona’s lawyer said the World Cup-winner was ready to quit his current role in order to be a “global ambassador” for the Premier League club, [...]
Eriksson: County role is my biggest challenge yet July 22, 2009 SVEN-GORAN Eriksson says he is facing the “biggest challenge of his life” after being unveiled as director of football at Notts County. The former England manager has signed a new five-year deal at Meadow Lane with the aim of dragging the world’s oldest football club from the depths of League Two and into the Premier [...]