England match not on terrestrial TV again?

Eddie

Eddie

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Could someone please explain to me exactly why it is that tomorrow's England game isn't on either BBC1 or ITV?

Here I was, looking forward to the game only to discover that Sky have the rights to the match and I won't be able to watch it. Club football I can understand, but your own national team? Takes the **** if you ask me.
 
Just go to the pub to watch it or watch the highlights. Its a choice if you want pay for sky sports or not.

Annoying for those who don't have it I agree but it is , still a choice
 
Tummy said:
When was the last time England weren't on "normal" telly?
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It wasn't that long back iirc, probably a WC qualifier I'd imagine, don't remember exactly when it was just that I was ****** off then too.

divaboy said:
Its a choice if you want pay for sky sports or not.
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It's not a choice to me, I can't afford to pay for Sky Sports full stop.

I just think that the only criteria that should need to be met if you want to watch your own country play footy on the telly is that you actually own a telly, i.e. it should be freely available to everyone, regardless of bank balance.
 
shoot1st said:
It wasn't that long back iirc, probably a WC qualifier I'd imagine, don't remember exactly when it was just that I was ****** off then too.
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I thought the BBC / ITV had all the World Cup qualifiers ?

Same with pointless friendly games.
 
shoot1st said:
Could someone please explain to me exactly why it is that tomorrow's England game isn't on either BBC1 or ITV?

Here I was, looking forward to the game only to discover that Sky have the rights to the match and I won't be able to watch it. Club football I can understand, but your own national team? Takes the **** if you ask me.
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Same for me last week. Usually, Northern Ireland matches are shown on BBC2 over here, but think it was Sky Sports 3 that had it.
 
shoot1st said:
It wasn't that long back iirc, probably a WC qualifier I'd imagine, don't remember exactly when it was just that I was ****** off then too.



It's not a choice to me, I can't afford to pay for Sky Sports full stop.

I just think that the only criteria that should need to be met if you want to watch your own country play footy on the telly is that you actually own a telly, i.e. it should be freely available to everyone, regardless of bank balance.
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Just watch it on t'internet instead
 
So is it because the game is away that Sky have those or that its a mid week game?

Its very frustrating i wish we were just able to purchase teh sky sports package and nothing else.
 
If the games are on Sky Sports 1/2 then you can get them via BT.

Sky do a Sport package do they not?

There is always the t'interwebz.
 
Neph09 said:
So is it because the game is away that Sky have those or that its a mid week game?

Its very frustrating i wish we were just able to purchase teh sky sports package and nothing else.
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It's because it's an away qualifier game.

Have a look at BT Vision/TopUpTV. They only do Sky Sports 1/Sky Sports 2/ESPN, but you can get the channels individually without signing up to anything else.
 
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