Friday
Arsenal v Leicester City 19:45 SKY
Saturday
Liverpool v Watford 12:30 SKY
Chelsea v Burnley 15:00
Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town 15:00
Everton v Stoke City 15:00
Southampton v Swansea City 15:00
West Bromwich Albion v Bournemouth 15:00
Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City 17:30 BT
Sunday
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur 13:30 SKY
Manchester United v West Ham United 16:00 SKY
Fucking get it, finally
Funnily enough I was flicking through Sky Sports the other day and came across a filler programme called 'Football Years: 91/92'. Sky had led me to believe that no such thing had ever existed.
Is the greatest retreat of all time about to happen?
I had no idea Marco Silva had gone to Watford. All of a sudden I fear a gritty defeat.
They've been quietly putting that sort of thing on since BT started taking rights off them.
Shame that Hernandez is lining up for West Ham this weekend, he'd have been great as our sub forward still today. I think it'll be a laboured performance especially if we start with our non existent left side (Darmien and Lingard). Need to see Rashford in the team from the start and Mata.
I'm sure Fellaini will start though which is probably deserved.
Paul Barber (chief executive) reckons our game tomorrow will be watched by more people than all previous Brighton games in history combined.
It will be so great if we score. As long as we score a few and win a few this season it will have some great days.
You mean on television yeah? When was the last time you were in the 1st league?Originally Posted by Reg
Spurs will lose to Newcastle, and the rot will be well and truly on. 3 more first team players to leave before the end of the window.
I just worked out (how sad am I) total gates for Brighton since the war are about 18-20 million people, so add in a good 25 million for the FA Cup final and replay they were in, plus all televised games since, and it's a fairly challenging number.
Yeah, on telly. '83 so it's been a while. We had the FA Cup final so I was surprised about the above from Barber but I suppose accounting for China, Africa etc it could easily be true.
A half five kick off isn't ideal for bringing the Asian viewers in. That's half past midnight there and half one in Japan.
It'll probably be your most watched game ever but that chief exec needs to give himself a shake.
Weather is meant to be good tomorrow, so should be a really good atmosphere. I think I'll carry on working at the stadium for a bit when I've got nothing else going on. I'd love to see Pep get found out LIVE.
I was thinking that the current disharmony may benefit us. We did the double over them when we went down, so I reckon Mitrovic will eat them alive.
We aren't bottom, success! Today's done, onto the fairer tests in the next couple weeks.
The lack of pace up front to allow us to counter could be troubling. March looked at home and not at all phased by it all, Propper meanwhile looked really nervous - but he only just got here. I think we can get something next week with Knockaert likely to start.
Bald Silva had me baffled for a few moments. "Sneijder? What?" Man City looked good, the new system suits them. A right footed left wingback is a bad idea though, they'll be better with Mendy there.
I thought it was pretty noisy but not like the Palace playoff or the first Amex game. Did you work today?Weather is meant to be good tomorrow, so should be a really good atmosphere. I think I'll carry on working at the stadium for a bit when I've got nothing else going on. I'd love to see Pep get found out LIVE.
In 1997-98 they averaged 2,328 at home games. Jesus Christ.
Oh shit, I didn't realize the Premier League started today.
That looks like a fantasy football defence for Arsenal. 4 fullbacks?
Gone big on Vardy to net.
I hadn't realised quite how bad Mahrez was last year. Six goals and three assists? He must have done about four times that the year before.
Good start for Lacazette. That's a lovely little header.
They're going to get dicked on set pieces with those defenders.
Christ.
This expected goals nonsense needs to end very soon.
Granit Spaka doesn't half fall asleep at times.
I wondered during the Charity Shield whether this would be the season where Petr Cech-bashing goes mainstream. Everyone on the internet has been calling him bollocks for years, and lolling at him cashing in his fifteen points, but you never hear it on the telly.
Ffs. At least I'm already convinced I'm going to enjoy Lacazette this year.
fuck
I love how Welbz took a touch there.
I know they have some actual defenders (and maybe Sanchez) to come back, but Arsenal look absolutely awful.
The thinking man's Daniel Sturridge
Had he missed, it would have sent the expected goals panel into meltdown.
For some reason Wenger was throwing out of position players into the back three during pre-season and is now looking surprised that players who never played the system together are struggling with it. Given they won 10 in a row prior to this (not counting pre season) I think the first choice back three will be ok.
Not sure why Ramsey isn't playing, don't actually rate him but in the aforementioned run he and Xhaka were the starting centre mid pairing.
Whoever spends money on Mahrez might as well flush the cash down a toilet.
He looks terrible.
issa Vardy Party
The joys of a full back heavy defence.
Cech was more interested in pushing Elneny.
ffs.
Wahey'
smfh
Ugh feel choked after that. Mahrez playing himself out of any kind of move, bench him for the time being. Vardy absolutely superb, Albrighton and Maguire also. Think we'll be fine this year, plenty of positives from that but enough to suggest we perhaps won't win it this season.
I read down through this and then checked livescore expecting Arsenal to have taken a pasting.
EDIT: MP's post above wasn't there.
I never know what Leicester are going to do. They've had three years of absolutely no steady middles.
About that bubble...
Sky could be forced to pay an extra £600m annually to retain the lion’s share of Premier League matches when the next rights auction launches this year, with Amazon emerging as a potential competitor for the biggest prize in UK sport broadcasting.
Google, Apple, Facebook and Netflix are other possible rivals for Britain’s most valuable sports rights, which are split between Sky and BT under the current three-year deal... The prospect of a heated auction involving deep-pocketed tech firms has led analysts to estimate that Sky might have to pay a premium of up to 45% on the near £4.2bn it paid last time. That means a further £1.8bn, or £600m annually, to keep Silicon Valley off the ball.
Man, streaming services moving in for sports rights would be the end of the satellite model.
Football thrown in with Prime would be decent.
Other than replacing the physical satellite, I don't see what difference it would make. I would imagine most tv services will move to a wifi delivery method in the next decade or so. No need for cables/aerial points and the like. I run sky through a PS3 at the moment (as a multiroom 'box') and it's a revelation (I think they are doing this with those little slave Sky Q boxes as well aren't they?).
It'll end Sky because the above companies (and BT) can subsidise it through their vast other business. Sky have only ever existed on the basis of having (ideally exclusive) Premier League rights.
If they end up having to pay an extra billion then they almost won't be able to do anything else - they'll have to cut other sport, cut F1 probably, cut whatever original programming they do and who knows, maybe they won't even be able to afford to buy in GoT or its future equivalent from the States.
That will never happen for the same price. Why would it?!
I can see Amazon doing a Prime + Football for X amount extra a year.
Prime would be about £30 a month then.
Amazon would probably take a loss on it for ten years to become synonymous with sports coverage, but I don't think the others would bother.
I thought Lacazette looked decent last night.
At points I would imagine he was wondering whether the contract he'd just signed had a release clause in it.
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