Match of the day.

I am watching match of the day and have just found out that they are doing the same as what sky sports do on a saturday night.

Skys is called football first were if you press the red button you can watch what match you want too.
Now the bbc are doing it tonight,I dont know if its just for the fa cup games?
it would be great if they are going to do it every week with the prem games it would give sky a run for there money.

Does anyone have any inside information about this?

Please be nice to me as I am new to this site and must say its a very good site.

well done.

I think it's just for the F.A. Cup. They've done it for earlier rounds.

The Football First service is a specific licence from the Premier League.

Sky bought the Gold, Silver and Bronze live deals, and also got the extended interactive highlights.



Linkage here

The BBC couldn't do this for the Premier League even if they wanted to.

I see the brief highlights of the game where mighty Stoke are giving Arsenal a bit of a mauling is not in widescreen, so we have the black bars at the sides of the screen.

Seems a bit odd, surely the rawness of the pictures is not really an excuse?

Any explanation into the fact that Never Mind the Buzzcocks interfered with the show yesterday, not that I was complaining, Bill Bailey is a legend

Why have the rights now been split three games to BBC, one to Sky.

I'm aware this is the first time there hasn't been an all Premiership tie in the third round, but even with two matches per round the BBC struggled to get two very good matches.

Three matches has been too many for BBC1 over one weekend - and although I think they screened Arsenal virtually every round last year, Arsenal v Stoke was a far more attractive tie than Yeading v Newcastle today.

The BBC should put at least one of these matches on the interactive channel - or sell on the rights. Football Focus was missing yesterday at a time when non-league clubs usually enjoy coverage in the football media, so I'd say putting the Saturday lunchtime game on BBCi and running Football Focus on BBC1 would be a far better strategy.

Erm no it wasn't. One of the FA Cup's USPs is the potential for a shock result and that was more likely to come at the Yeading game.

And can you imagine the outrage if the BBC put a live game on its interactive service?

Apparently we (Arsenal) were crap today anyway

The BBC have put a live game on it's interactive service before, it was a match that was shown on BBC One Scotland while the rest of the england was watching grandstand, I belive that it was in the scotish cup.

You obviously haven't watched the FA cup then - the history of it and the beauty that lower league clubs take on the top team clubs. The non-league clubs were talked about in yesterdays and todays Match of the Day highlights. Putting it on BBCi would prevent people on analogue watching it, and therefore yeading would lose out on coverage and interest, people moaning about how the match should have been showed on BBC1. I particularly enjoyed today's match and sheffield utd beating aston villa, which was shown because there would be a chance of an upset, and there was.

if the BBC shove it on BBCi, what next? Probably then Sky Sports will have full rights to broadcast the matches because they can cover the FA Cup better than the BBC.


Which is probably why now Sky Sports has the rights for the Tennents' Scottish Cup.

Because that is what the BBC decided to pay for, and at the time Sky were happy to cut back given the amounts they had agreed to pay for the Premiership rights.

They also get a live replay - a week on Wednesday (Sky get a game on the Tuesday live).

As part of the same deal the BBC get home England games live.

I think the Exeter replay is on Tuesday, so doubtless to say Sky will get it ...

I'm not sure who has first dibs on replays.