Got rid of the fucking thieving bastards a while back now and got a FreeSat box (after cunty SKY said that I could not use their existing dish and wiring..........lying cunts) and got BT vision aswell. For £14 a month (or there abouts), got shit loads of tele, a hard drive recorder thingy for TV over 40 new films every week and Satanta (now ESPN). It now seems for an extra £6.99 per month (with much bollox SKY Lawyers trying to block the deal) I can have Sky Sport 1 and 2.

Bout time those monoply-fecking-retards stopped getting all there own way.


YEAH!!!

Will they not just start putting football on Sky Sports 3 and 4 instead?

Never paid for Sky before and never will (though I have to admit to watching it!)

I like the attitude.

Possibly, (cause they are a bunch of troosering cunts) but I can get them for an extra £5 per month.

I just like the way they tried to stop BT from getting their channels at wholesale prices an got told to fuck off

FreeSat and BT Vision is the way forward mate (well until SKY find another way to fuck us all over like).

Hopefully, dont see why I should pay good money to Sky and you cheap fuckers be allowed to watch Sky channels without having Sky!

Capitalism at its best

(BTW BBT, fancy a few streams next season )

Im on Virgin media and get the Sky Sports package with them, but I hear they're having to pay Sky a crock fo gold for the privilege and its close to bankrupting them.

I only watch it for the footy and their Indycar coverage though, nowt else, and plus I find the much cheaper offerings from British Eurosport and ESPN are better anyway.

On the subject of Sky they have announced their first lot of live games

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,119...5,00.html#quals

Our first game at Man U has been moved to the Monday night.

Thanks SKY. Bunch of tossers

The fixtures are part of a record number of live HD football matches across four dedicated Sky Sports HD channels; Sky Sports HD1, Sky Sports HD2, Sky Sports HD3 and Sky Sports HD4.Sky Sports News will also be available in HD in August.

Mon 16.08.2010 Manchester United (a) @ 8pm (SKY)
Sun 22.08.2010 Aston Villa (h) @ 1.30pm (ESPN)
Sun 26.09.2010 Stoke City (h) @ 4.10pm (SKY)
Sun 03.10.2010 Manchester City (a) @ 1.30pm (ESPN)
Sat 23.10.2010 West Ham (a) 5.30pm (SKY)
Sun 31.10.2010 mackems (h) 4pm (SKY)
Sun 07.11.2010 Arsenal (a) @ 1.30pm (SKY)
Sun 28.11.2010 Chelsea (h) @ 1.30pm (SKY)

The BT vision box is HD ready

This BT vision sounds ok actually.

To be honest, when I forst got it, it was pretty wank. However, over the last few months it has really got its act together. the Films and music are fucking brill, getting 40 odd free films added every week means that there is something for every fucker. It now has Warner films and Sony films free alot of Film on 4 films are free and again, are added to/changed every week. the recording of TV/ series is a piece of pish. they also have "box" sets of series......tis great to watch an entire series of a neet with nee adverts.

At the time was a little pissed off I got it and was gonna cancel. Now though, even without the addition of Sky sports, I am glad I kept it.

Good of SKY to put West Ham at 5.30pm on a Saturday and Arsenal away at 1.30pm on a sunday

If the Sheeple revolt, Sky will be no more.


One can only fucking hope.

Well I don't envisage us getting too many points from that lot. Are we getting more games than the average?

Maybe they think people will be interested in tuning in to see us getting hammered for the n-th time in the season. (n stricly less than 8. We won't get hammered by the mackems. We better fucking not.)

Another point, won't the police have something to say about us playing Sunderland at 4pm? It's usual for us to play them at lunchtime so people don't get totally pissed and start fights.

Not exactly the end of the world, it's not as bad as the 12.30pm in Swansea and the 8pm at Plymouth last season.

Granted but be better if they were both on a saturday at 3 mate.

My first thought too, i'd guess that will be changed to a lunch time kick off on the Sunday, think the other tv game that day is Bolton.

Ive never really understood that myself - if people want to get pissed and/or cause trouble then they will do at the end of the day no matter what time the kick off is.

the game at the SoS is noon but apparently 4pm is fine at SJP

It's not just those out to get pissed though - it takes a certain dedication to be shitfaced before 12, whereas the general public will be pissed by 4pm without even trying and that just adds to the trouble.

It's a very sensible thing to do.

Which beggars belief, how can they say its fine to have an evening kickoff for one and not for the other?

Also we dont have that many Saturday 3pm kickoffs eitherin that early pre-december period either, just 3 from what I can count

Sat Sept 11th: Blackpool
Sat Oct 16th: Wigan
Sat Nov 13th: Fulham

Do you actually get SKy Sports HD channels though or just normal Sky Sports? My Virgin V+ box does HD but they only broadcast Sky Sports in normal quality (actually it seems below normal quality much of the time).

Only Sky Digital customers can get Sky Sports in HD, VM and BT only get the standard feed.

Virgin Media customers though can get ESPN and British Eurosport 1 in HD.