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Want to watch England lose away in Croatia in then 2010 qualifiers?
Then you'll have to subscribe to Setanta.
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Setanta has secured the rights to most of England's away qualifying matches for the 2010 football World Cup, including the team's match with Croatia.
The Irish pay-TV broadcaster has struck an exclusive broadcast deal for about 90 World Cup qualifiers, which will begin next autumn.
This is likely to be the next time England's footballers take part in competitive matches, after they ignominiously failed to qualify for the Euro 2008 last week, losing their final match against Croatia at Wembley 3-2.
However, there is talk of resurrecting the Home Nations tournament next summer, after England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all failed to qualify for the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland.
Setanta has secured the exclusive broadcast rights to four of England's five away qualifiers - against Croatia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Andorra, but not Ukraine - in wide-ranging deal with the four home nations and Ireland.
It is understood that the rights to England's away fixture against Ukraine are still up for grabs.
The broadcaster will air exclusive live coverage of all Scotland's away qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, against Holland, Norway, Macedonia and Iceland; as well as Wales' matches against Russia, Finland and Azerbaijan.
Setanta also has Northern Ireland's away ties against Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia; and Ireland's games in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Montenegro.
As part of the rights package, struck with rights holders Sport Five and Kentaro, Setanta will also air another 72 matches from the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.
ITV has the rights to air England's home qualifiers as part of a £425m deal, in conjunction with Setanta, with the Football Association to show FA Cup and England home internationals.
The terrestrial broadcaster paid £275m for the four-year deal, which kicks in from next August, giving the broadcaster England's competitive home games, friendly away fixtures and first pick for FA Cup games.
Setanta's £150m secured it the live rights to England's home friendlies, under-21 internationals, the Community Shield and FA Trophy.
These guys really are making huge inroads into Sky's dominance and I love it.
11-27-2007, 11:05 AM
Want to watch England lose away in Croatia in then 2010 qualifiers? Post #2
Originally posted by Docker:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by BBB:
why do you love it? You do know it costs more to have sky and setanta than to just have sky?
Because it's free to Virgin subscribers, of which I subscribe to.
Also Sky have had the run of the roost for far too long now.
Having more options is always a better situation. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Not always, a Sky monopoly costing ~£25 a month, is better than Sky cosing £20 and Setanta being £10
11-27-2007, 11:12 AM
Want to watch England lose away in Croatia in then 2010 qualifiers? Post #9
Watched Setanta's coverage of a few games this season. F**king awful stuff. So is SKY tbf, should give it all to Channel 4 and let Richardson host and commentate.
11-27-2007, 11:14 AM
Want to watch England lose away in Croatia in then 2010 qualifiers? Post #10
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