Oh.. I guess it wasn't worth it for BT.

BT obviously value pre match build up more. It isnt really much of an issue. Those with BT Sport that are really keen to see it still can. But there will be more people interested in the british teams over Besiktas vs Napoli

Please correct me If I'm wrong on this.

Tuesday 1st November - BT Sport 2

Live UEFA Champions League: Manchester City v Barcelona

Gary Lineker presenting from the City of Manchester Stadium alongside Rio Ferdinand, Richard Dunne and Steve McManaman

Commentators: Darren Fletcher and Owen Hargreaves

Reporter: Des Kelly


BT Sport 3

Live UEFA Champions League: Ludogorets Razgrad v Arsenal

Matt Smith presenting from the studio alongside Martin Keown and Michael Owen

Commentators: Steve Bower and Jim Beglin

Reporter: Andy May



BT Sport//ESPN and BT Sport Showcase

Live UEFA Champions League: Borussia Monchenglabach v Celtic

Darrell Currie presenting from the studio alongside Johan Mjallby and John Hartson

Commentators: Derek Rae and Chris Sutton

Reporter: Eilidh Barbour


BT Sport Extra

UEFA Champions League Group Stage
Besiktas JK v Napoli (X3) - Simon Brotherton and Richard Hughes
PSV Eindhoven v Bayern Munchen (X2) - Guy Mowbray and Don Hutchison
FC Basel v Paris Saint-Germain (X4) - Jon Champion and Clive Allen
Atletico Madrid v FC Rostov (X5) - Paul Dempsey and Danny Mills
SL Benfica v Dynamo Kyiv (X6) - John Roder and Stewart Robson


BT Sport 1

UEFA Champions League Goals Show

James Richardson presenting from the studio alongside James Horncastle, Julien Laurens, Raphael Honigstein and Howard Webb

Excellent that finally Jim Beglin has a major game on a main BT channel rather than being stuck behind the red button.

They could have had Napoli on BTS 1 - it was finished at 7:40pm... Then boom goals show. Not affecting buildup on BTS 2,3 or ESPN!


Although sounds like Bower and Beglin are offtube.

UEFA Champions League - world feed - 01.11.2016

Ludogorets v Arsenal - Nigel Adderley
Basel v PSG - Dave Farrar
Manchester City v Barcelona - Jonathan Pearce and Danny Higginbotham
Borussia Monchengladbach v Celtic - Joe Speight
PSV v Bayern Munich - Tony Jones and Dean Ashton
Atletico Madrid v FK Rostov - Kevin Keatings
Besiktas v Napoli - Dan Mason
Benfica v Dynamo Kiev - Phil Blacker

Looking at BT's line up on paper, it's so mixed, obviously decent presenters.

Rio is good from what I've seen but all the other pundits I'd be unsure about. I cannot stand Martin Keown, I'm not sure how he gets work, he's so negative. Fair play on them using Beglin.

Did Sky ever do a British CL game off tube? Were BT offtube for Arsenal?

Was it a late shift? I had intended to record this one and the first I noted was that at 19.40 yesterday the match had shifted on my planner to be Benfica-Dynamo, which made me think I must have selected the wrong game. So what I went back to the planner I was surprised to see the game had dropped off the extra listing. First I saw that the game had been played was the multi screen tease that BT put onto each of the games moments before kick-off saying it had finished 1-1.

All very bizarre...will other matches played in Turkey kick off earlier?

BT did put Astana matches on a main channel last year and indeed occasionally did likewise for Europa League matches that kicked off earlier too (I seem to recall a Lokomotiv-Fenerbahce encounter being shown on the main channel last season)

Plus it stops Sky customers getting the match in HD.

Yes. Because there is no daylight savings in Turkey, since the clocks have gone back in the rest of Europe, all games played in Turkey will now kick off early.

...and on Matchday 6, so will other games of teams in groups where there is a Turkish side playing at home.

Monaco v CSKA- Adam Summerton and Daniel Gabbidon for BT

Derek Rae will be the commentator for the STV Sport team for England v Scotland. Kenny Miller, Chris Sutton and Gary McAllister will be special guests, Raman Bhardwaj will present and Sheelagh McLaren will be on the touchline.

I was watching the Manchester City vs Barcelona game via world feed, Jonathan Pearce was awful, he was so biased towards Barca, " they are a fantastic team" " ooooh what a delightful pass" as 1 player passed a mundane ball to another.

It truly was cringe worthy.

Eastleigh v Swindon- Steve Bower and Phil Neville for the BBC. Dan Walker and Trevor Sinclair present.

Ian Darke has a double header of PL games this weekend, he is doing Chelsea V Everton for BT Sport and Liverpool V Watford for the World Feed. No FA Cup commentary for BT though..

...are the talkSPORT commentators, not the BT ones.

Yeah misread... I swear they put BT Sport on their tweet!!

Did anyone else notice how many times Owen Hargreaves said 'exceptional' last night? Was driving me mad!!!

Sure at one point he said the corner flags looked exceptional (ok might be making that up) but he just over uses the word that when something genuinely is exceptional it doesn't feel like it is as he uses the word all the time!!!

I'm surprised that more JP bashing doesn't go on within this thread. He hardly ever seems to get a mention.

JP's two buzzwords are "splendid" to describe something good - and "wretched" to describe something bad.

As for biased commentary, try his England commentaries for Channel 5 on for size. He hadn't quite made the transition from Robot Wars at that point.

Dont worry there is plenty of JP bashing whenever he commentates on the BBC live. Just look back to the Euro's!

Sam Matterface is in Copenhagen for ITV highlights of Copenhagen v Leicester. He is there because he said on Twitter that he watched the Man City v Barcelona game there.

Peter Drury & Steve McManaman commentating on Leicester game tonight for BT Sport. (Not TalkSPORT )

Spurs v Bayer Leverkusen u19s- Steven Wyeth for BT
Copenhagen v Leicester- Will Downing and Pat Nevin commentating, and John Hartson and Martin O'Neill in the studio for eir Sport 1. Simon Brotherton commentating for the world feed
Legia Warsaw v Real Madrid- John Roder for eir Sport 2