2009/2010 Football Season
We are a few weeks away from the start of league play in Europe. I have started to list the opening weekend schedules. Make sure you check back often as they tend to change a little bit as we get closer to the weekend.
For those who have not heard Champions League is now going to be shown on Fox Soccer Channel and three of their sister networks. We are set up for all of them.
We still have some World Cup Qualifiers to go as well, so if there is a game you are interested in drop us an email. If it’s Pay per view we are more likely to carry it only if it’s not offered for home viewing as well. The draw for the World Cup will be shown live on December 4th.
Any of you interested in joining us for the Fantasy Football League just go to the premier League website, form a team and send me an e-mail and I will send you the code to join the league. The format now allows for weekly winners to make it more interesting.
We are looking forward to seeing you all again….
Drew
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I have added another dish to our roof today. This one is Dish Network as they have a more complete Latino commercial package than Direct Tv has. I am waiting on a new smart card to get the channels started. I expect to be up and running by next Tuesday or Wednesday. So now along with Univision, Telefutura, galavision and Azteca America we will have:
Telemundo
Mun 2
ESPN Deportes
Fox Sports Espanol (Needed for Champions League)
As always if you dont see it listed drop us a line and ask we will show anything available to us.
Drew
Sir Bobby Robson has died at the age of 76. The former England manager, who had fought a long battle with cancer, passed away at his home this morning.
“It is with great sadness that it has been announced today that Sir Bobby Robson has lost his long and courageous battle with cancer,” read a statement released by Robson’s family. “He died very peacefully this morning at his home in County Durham with his wife and family beside him.
“Sir Bobby’s funeral will be private and for family members only. A thanksgiving service in celebration of Sir Bobby’s life will be held at a later date for his many friends and colleagues.
“Lady Robson and the family would very much appreciate it if their privacy could be respected at this difficult time.”
Stricken by cancer Robson had looked frail when, in a wheelchair, he made his final public appearance last Sunday. Appropriately it was at St James’ Park, the home of the Newcastle United team he always supported and, for five uplfiting years, managed.
The occasion was a fund-raiser for Robson’s cancer charity involving a re-run of the England v West Germany Italia 90 semi final featuring many of the original participants. That World Cup semi-final saw England, then under Sir Bobby’s charge, lose to Germany on penalties in the cruellest moment of Robson’s often glittering managerial career.
Beginning with a lengthy spell at Ipswich Town – from 1969 to 1982 and embracing winning the FA Cup in 1978 and the Uefa Cup in 1981 – ahead of eight years in charge of England that career also spanned stints in charge of Sporting Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven and, finally, his beloved Newcastle.
One of just a handful of English coaches to have prospered abroad, Robson had travelled a long way from his upbringing in Langley Park in County Durham but, never forgetting his roots, always hankered after the return to north-east England occasioned by Ruud Gullit’s resignation from Newcastle in 1999.
Although, as his wife Elsie and three sons rarely tired of reminding him, Robson remained a football obsessive he proved a far more rounded man than many of his peers. Well aware of life’s shades of grey, he was unusually generous spirited towards critics and opponents and consistently magnanimous in defeat.
Moreover Robson never failed to support fellow managers experiencing tough stints and took great pleasure in mentoring young coaches – most notably a certain Jose Mourinho, whose football life began as Sir Bobby’s interpreter in Portugal before later accompanying him to Barcelona.
On the pitch, Robson’s teams invariably played bold, expansive football frequently featuring two orthodox wingers and, if things were not proceeding to plan, he delighted in making sometimes match-winning triple substitutions.
Told he was destined to lose his fifth battle against cancer – something which first afflicted him in 1991 – Robson opted to spend his final months endeavouring to improve the lot of fellow cancer sufferers in the north-east and at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital in particular.
In March 2008 he established the Sir Bobby Robson foundation. By that November he had raised £1m and in the August he reflected on his own position with a typical realism and impressive lack of bitterness.
“My condition is described as static and has not altered since my last bout of chemotherapy,” said Robson. “I am going to die sooner rather than later. But then everyone has to go sometimes and I have enjoyed every minute.”
Booby Robson. Best England Manager that I remember. RIP.
Looking forward to new season & hopefully more non-premiership (aka. real) games.
I know you didn’t ask but some predictions.
1. Notts County win League & beat each of the”Big Four” at least once.
Note : “Big Four” = Bradford, Rotherham, Shrewsbury & Northampton.
2. Man. City win a cup which is one more than any London Team.
3. Lots of crying by fans of the other “Big Four”.
4. Sven resigns from Notts County.
John
Notts County “Older & Richer than YOU.”
RIP Bobby Robson. Greatest Ipswich Town FC manager (not that it took much).
Drew – any chance of showing the Ipswich v Coventry game on Sunday? It’s on Sky in England, 12:45 GMT.
Dom you know if I can get it I will show it. I will keep you posted.
thanks Drew