Originally Posted by ftakeith:
“UK and Irish live coverage of the English Premier League is the weakest in the world.
Everywhere else can mostly see every EPL game live”
If that's what you want from Premier League coverage, maybe it is, but I don't care about seeing every game live. Most of them are better as highlights. I want quality coverage, not quantity. Also, I can go to the games.
Originally Posted by
sat-ire:
“You're probably aware but this is actually the equivalent of our Community Shield ie a friendly as opposed to a cup game, and is very regularly played in different places around the world 
And with the Italian league on a break this year's timing and location makes some sense.”
Well, you say that, but we hear so much about why England perform so badly in tournaments due to the lack of a winter break, and Italy has one and the players are travelling to the other side of the world to play a friendly. Not that I agree with the theory, mind, given the likes of Messi and Suarez play about a thousand matches a season. We should have a longer summer break, not drag the season out longer.
Originally Posted by
gs1:
“Indeed-significant technical problems in the last 25 minutes, as described by pakokelso93 above.
Fair play to those involved for maintaining visual coverage to full-time, despite awful weather conditions and obvious technical issues!
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Lots of moaning about it on social media, mind, not that Sky could have done much about it by the sounds of things. I wish I'd postponed my trip home to see it. Lots of people on Twitter, as always seems to be the case when Sky show Scottish football, are suggesting Sky's coverage is much worse than BT's Scottish coverage. I don't watch either but BT seems to get loads of praise on Twitter. Seemingly the exact opposite of the Premier League.
That was a bit of a miserable post for Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas.