Originally Posted by arunan22:
“BT say every English team will be shown free at least once - surely to guarantee that - must mean 1 game per week is shown free?”
The press release actually talks about every British team, so potentially (with some good Scottish performances boosting co-efficients) you could end up with six teams needing to be shown at least once - which I think would then get to the one match per week during the group phase. (Just seen the above post, and take the point that BT may decide to count qualifiers as the "once per season" for teams in the qualifiers).
What's very unclear at the moment, is whether all this is tokenism - i.e. show potentially meaningless group games free, but keep more attractive group games and the knockout phase (barring final) for subscribers, or will the free / subscriber balance be more like it is now?
As an aside on something I'm not clear on, do we yet know the details of the BBC / BT FA Cup deal, as I don't recall anywhere seeing the split of which picks those broadcasters got in each round.
Last edited by mattw : 09-11-2013 at 10:52