Tomorrow I’m being hauled into work – missing the televised coverage of Crystal Palace vs Norwich – to help Mishka’s deal with the craziness of Picnic Day. Apparently, everyone who has ever lived in Davis returns to the town for the day to watch a parade and a dachshund steeplechase.
I’m charging the camera batteries as I type.
16/04/2005
You get televised Norwich games? Where? Where in America is there a place that will show a Pally vs Norwich game?
What an utterly ridiculous idea.
17/04/2005
Murdoch’s Fox Sports World televises the Premiership, and carries games live. The Soccer Shop in town has a big screen TV which shows the matches. They also show them at the Streets of London Pub in Sacramento and at a few other venues around the place too.
ESPN seems to carry Champions League and UEFA cup matches, etc. The things that Sky (and thereby Fox) don’t have the rights to.
17/04/2005
Interesting. Every time I’ve tried to catch a Premiership game on the in-laws’ cable, it’s been “live”, but a couple of weeks old, and that’s on yon Fox Sports World.
Lucky beggar, is all I can say.
One thing I’ve always wondered about was when BBC South Today would show footage of Brighton games, and it’d have a “pictures provided by Meridian” in the corner, except Meridian didn’t televise the game. I’ve often wondered who’s watching these games that are being filmed, but not actually broadcast anywhere…
17/04/2005
Not all that surprising, now that I think of it. There must be quite a few people from south of the border in your neck of the woods, and they sensibly prefer football to “football”.
18/04/2005
Kelvin, are you actually awake in the mornings? Most English matches, because of the time difference, occur at 7am, when I don’t think you’re normally astir.
Actually, for you they’ll be at 8am.
18/04/2005
Cheeky sod. :)