Paul Scholes & Portuguese Primeira Liga join BT Sports

[StewM]

Some additions to BT Sports BT News Release

Stew

[RobSmithS]

"BT Sport also announced today that it had signed a deal for up to four exclusively live matches a week from the Portuguese Primeira Liga, taking the channels’ total to six European leagues. BT Sport also shows exclusively live matches from Germany's Bundesliga, France's Ligue1, Italy's Serie A and the Scottish Professional Football League."

http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=6AE03E4B-3172-4524-BA55-63AB055831FD

Bundesliga

Serie A 

Ligue 1

Primeira Liga - that's 4?

Counting the SPFL (!) - if we are counting it - then that's 5? Am I missing something here?

[pottyperson]

PL?

[RobSmithS]

But who here typically refers to our domestic football and includes it as a "European league" when detailing out the tv rights?

[GarethW]

I smell a Daily Mail/Express/Telegraph reader still in denial that the UK is in Europe 😉

[GarethW]

They show Russian football too though, just off the top of my head.

[pottyperson]

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@GarethW wrote:
They show Russian football too though, just off the top of my head.

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That'll make it 6½ then.

[RobSmithS]

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@GarethW wrote:
I smell a Daily Mail/Express/Telegraph reader still in denial that the UK is in Europe 😉

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What an odd remark.

[RobSmithS]

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@pottyperson wrote:

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@GarethW wrote:
They show Russian football too though, just off the top of my head.

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That'll make it 6½ then.

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No, they haven't. So no it doesn't.

[pottyperson]

Так что это только шесть.