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La Liga on Sky
Paul1511
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Can anyone provide or point me in the direction of a list of games that Sky have shown live from La Liga.
Even if this isn't possible, can anyone tell me whether sky have shown every single game featuring Barcelona and/or Real Madrid.
I just want to counter someone who claimed elsewhere that La Liga isn't worth the bother on Sky unless you are a fan of these teams. I refute that claim, because they seem to show 4 games a week, so at least 2 games a week must feature 4 teams not called Barca or Real.
Even if this isn't possible, can anyone tell me whether sky have shown every single game featuring Barcelona and/or Real Madrid.
I just want to counter someone who claimed elsewhere that La Liga isn't worth the bother on Sky unless you are a fan of these teams. I refute that claim, because they seem to show 4 games a week, so at least 2 games a week must feature 4 teams not called Barca or Real.
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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12942,00.html
Spanish fixtures arent confirmed til around 2 weeks before the actual game so although you know whos playing, the day/ko arent known til nearer the time.
Yeah you are correct, Barca and Real are always featured in the live coverage. Theres 4 live La Liga fixtures, sometimes 5 and also Monday night game is available online.
plus theres coverage of Copa Del Rey as well.
The other two games invariably feature Sevilla and Valencia, with an occasional Villarreal or Atletico if any of the big four are playing each other, or if Sevilla and Valencia play at the same time as Barca or Real.
If you're a fan of Sporting Gijon or Malaga or Levante, you're probably only going to see your team half a dozen times a year
Use the arrows on top of the calendar to change the month and select the first highlighted day.
http://www.skysports.com/football/calendar/0,25004,11826_201008,00.html
It shows all matches played in the month and shows some of the matches that Sky have shown. Look for Saturday kick offs at 19:00 and 21:00 and Sunday kick offs at 18:00 and 20:00, those are the matches that Sky have shown if they don't say next to the game (excluding mid week games).
Oh, I thoroughly agree. To my mind, the coverage is almost perfect in so much that it allows neutrals to watch the two most popular teams every week, but also allows those that happen to be fans of the likes of Sevilla, Espanyol, Deportivo etc a chance to see those teams a fair bit too.
Sky are allowed to show any game they wish, except those played between 14:45 and 17:15 on a Saturday, and all games are available to them.
Their choice of Barca and Real every week is meritocratic.
It would be interesting to see how coverage here involving the other clubs compares with coverage of the non-"Big 4" from the Premier League when our games are shown in other countries.
I'm making a sweeping statement here, but the Sky/ESPN games, regardless of who's playing in them, get televised in most countries around the world nowadays
However, for the 3pm games, most networks will prioritise to show the Arsenals/Liverpools/Man Utds/Chelseas etc.(depending on number channels available etc)
Some may do it in their own national interests too, as long as Man Utd don't play at the same time South Korea's SBS Sports show every Bolton game live, simply becasue of Lee Chung-Yong
But they've been crap this year and have only been on about 6 times this season so far.
In comparision, how many times would the likes of Freiburg and St. Pauli in the Bundesliga and Catania and Lecce in Serie A feature on ESPN UK over the course of the season?
More often - as La Liga is a boring 2 horse race most years.
What has that got to do with game coverage, especially in light of what has already been established in this thread?
The question was do ESPN show a more diverse range of teams on the Serie A and Bundesliga coverage - I said yes, basically as the leagues are generally more open than La Liga and therefore yes they do.
Maybe I should have expanded my answer, but I thought it was self explanatory.
I think he was trying to say La Liga is 2 team top heavy whilst the other two have a more open ';unknown' championship battle so there will generally be a wider choice of teams than is shown on La Liga.
Yet that seems not to be true as this thread has indicated that with 4 games per weekend, even if they do always show Real and Barca, that still means 6 teams outside the Big Two get on air each week.
Thanks for your answer. I suspect that is true given the larger amount of title contenders in Serie A and the Bundesliga, yet ESPN UK are hamstrung by the fact they have fewer platforms than Sky and thus are able to show European games less often than Sky can show La Liga games.
I'd like to see the numbers if someone is in a position to supply them.
That will teach me not to check the fixtures list. From tuesday 1st March - thursday 3rd March there is a full fixture list. The Madrid game is thursday 9pm (UK). What do Sky do with midweek La Liga fixtures?
Make it 3.5 games a week! as Sunday games usually start in 30th minute of the match eventhough most other Sky Sports channels don't have any live broadcast.
usually ignore them. Some Monday games are shown online eventhough, yet again, they have 4 dedicated sport channels!
Same can be said of the Premier League, which more often than not, has been a 2 or 1 horse race.