With the rights for the Premier league up for grabs yet again, and Sky successfully bidding, its left for everyone else to step up and bid, and the companies likely to get the rights are Setanta, or ESPN.
How bad will it be if ESPN, an American sports network owned by Disney got the rights to live Premier league games in this country.
I'm not saying ESPN are bad, because they are not far from it. I myself watch alot of American sport on TV on channel five, and ESPN show the Baseball (MLB), and American Football (NFL), but I feel that they should stick to covering their own sports and leave ours alone.
But with the gaffe ITV produced on Wednesday during the Mersyside Derby, ESPN will have a better chance than any of our terrestural Tv networks at showing live top flight football.
Setanta has done a good job, of the live premier league games they have been broadcasting, and in a short period of time are competing with Sky, and have taken FA Cup and England games away from Sky.
Going onto he rights for highlights the BBC has been successfull in that department, and thank god because Match Of The Day is alot better than the offering that ITV produced when they had the rights to Premier League highlights.
ITV has shown why once again they are a joke when it comes to football being broadcast, during the recent Everton v Liverpool FA Cup 4th round replay, fans indured 118 minutes of a dull match only for ITV to cut to and ad break with two minutes left of a game which looked like it was heading to penalties, only to come back and see Everton celebrating the winning goal.
ITV seems to let itself down when coming to football coverage, but why? They have really good Champions League coverage, and even their Uefa Cup coverage is good.
Sky leads the way in terms of football coverage, I don't have sky, but I go to the pb to watch games and their coverage is the best, and Setanta is also very good. When the BBC and ITV get a chance to prove themselves showing live football they seem to let not only themselves down but the viewers as well.
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