Would be great if we got a few more of the regional qualifiers - the CONMEBOL (South American) section has led a nomadic existence down the years with ITV Sport, Bravo and Sky all showing them in the past 15 years or so. Eurosport used to chip in with AFC (Asia) which got interesting at this stage. Hopefully as things ramp up broadcasters might be inclined to bring these matches on board

Poland v Armenia- Tony Jones

The costs have to be very low and be seen as fillers live games

they also get almost zero ratings

That'll be where your niche interest comes in

England U21 v Bosnia U21 - BT Sport 1.

Darrell Currie presenting coverage from The Banks's Stadium with Trevor Sinclair and Chris Sutton. Andy May reporting.

Commentators: Adam Summerton and Kevin Davies.

Tuesday 11th October - BT Sport 1

Live UEFA Under-21 Championship Qualifier: England Under-21s v Bosnia-Herzegovina Under-21s

Darrell Currie presenting from pitchside at the Banks's Stadium alongside Trevor Sinclair and Chris Sutton

Commentators: Adam Summerton and Kevin Davies

Reporter: Andy May

the matches are boring also

Kazakhstan v Romania - Sky Sports 1 - Gary Weaver and David Prutton
world feed - Phil Blacker

What a world we live in where such a game is not only shown live and in HD on UK TV, but also has a world feed commentary!

Denmark v Montenegro- Gary Taphouse
Lithuania v Malta- Dan O'Hagan
Chile v Peru- Dan O'Hagan

Owen Hargreaves will be the co-commentator for Crystal Palace V West Ham on Saturday. Jake will be presenting with top, top pundit Harry Reknapp and hat boy Ian Wright. Owen Hargreaves will join Jake, Harry, and Ian for Premier League Tonight.

connacht's rugby game live instead of the above

ITV need to clean up their England Opening titles. They seem fairly blurred, particularly when watching in HD. But they are for me the best opening titles of any football program.

Are you sure? My EPG has PL Tonight down for it's usual airing on BTS1 at 8pm...

Yes, TheSubaru2012 is correct, Premier League tonight is on BT Sport 1 at 8pm, with the Connacht v Toulouse European Rugby Champions Cup match on Sky Sports 4 at 5:30pm.

Ah lads, I know he (thankfully) doesn't post much here anymore but surely you recognised a ftakeith classic?

Because he obviously still believes none of us will sleep until he kindly informs us whether or not he'll be watching the football he was actually telling us he'd be watching the rugby instead rather than saying it is on BT Sport at that time...

I don't know about you but im dying to know whats on Eurosport player this weekend.

Probably doesn't help they have to keep re-editing them to put new managers in. As I mentioned the other week, these opening titles have been in use since 2008, making them by far the longest serving titles in football at the moment. I notice we got the full version tonight with ITV Sport Presents intact, in recent months we've only had a short version.

I remember the titles the Beeb used for England matches when they got the rights back in 2001, featuring Gary walking around the country watching kids play football, in a fatherly manner. I remember there was a bit filmed at Blackpool Tower and a friend of mine said they'd clearly done that because they wanted a geographical spread and Blackpool was one of the few Northern towns where they couldn't be accused of being biased towards a particular Premier League club.


Can anyone explain why that was a three o'clock kick-off on a weekday?

Now we've had another round of fixtures, here are all the home nations in one go...

Wales vs Georgia - Introduced by Simon Thomas with Niall Quinn and Dean Saunders, commentary by Bill Leslie and Barry Horne
Moldova vs Ireland - Introduced by Simon Thomas with Niall Quinn and Dean Saunders, commentary by Rob Hawthorne and Ray Houghton
Slovenia vs England - Introduced by Mark Pougatch with Lee Dixon, Ryan Giggs and Ian Wright, commentary by Clive Tyldesley and Glenn Hoddle
Germany vs Northern Ireland - Introduced by Dave Jones with Keith Gillespie and Didi Hamann, commentary by Daniel Mann and Gerry Armstrong
Slovakia vs Scotland - Introduced by David Tanner with Neil McCann, commentary by Ian Crocker and Davie Provan

UEFA wanted all the final round of qualifying matches to kick-off simultaneously, and that meant that both the matches in Kazakhstan (vs. Norway) and in Walsall (ENG v Bosnia) had to kick-off at the same-time.
The FA did recognise this though, and I believe made entry just £1, as the crowd wasn't expected to be the biggest (infact they got 5,263 through the Banks's Stadium gates).
It also meant that there would be time for fans to get home ahead of the evening's World Cup Qualifiers, with the match finishing at 4:45-ish, it gave them 3 hours to get home.

World Cup 2018 Qualifiers - world feed

Germany v Northern Ireland - Steve Bower and David Pleat
Slovenia v England - Peter Drury and Andy Hinchcliffe
Slovakia v Scotland - Bill Leslie
Denmark v Montenegro - Gary Taphouse
Czech Republic v Azerbaijan - Chris Wise
Norway v San Marino - Martin Fisher
Poland v Armenia - Tony Jones
Lithuania v Malta - Dan O'Hagan

Well, that makes sense, thank you for that. It reminds me of the Champions League in 2001 when in the final match of the group stage, Bayern vs Arsenal had to be played at 6pm because Locomotiv Moscow were at home in the other game in the group, and they had to be played simultaneously.

ESPN2, USA
Slovenia v England Jon Champion and Craig Burley

[quote=sat-ire;84190884]Ah lads, I know he (thankfully) doesn't post much here anymore but surely you recognised a ftakeith classic?

Because he obviously still believes none of us will sleep until he kindly informs us whether or not he'll be watching the football he was actually telling us he'd be watching the rugby instead rather than saying it is on BT Sport at that time...[/QUOTE

I knew Connacht was on sky sports as I have the Now TV's Sport pass for only 13euros for the month of October 2016

Its much better than watching BT Sport's coverage

Has anyone noticed the new Now TV's Smart Box is the same size as a Sky Q mini
I have Sky Q!

ftakeith has went from half decent posts with a bit of extra too much info on his watching habits to full scale brain cell deletion mode this year.

What are you talking about? I'm the same height as Eminem. Doesn't make me a rapper.