ESPN

CSF

Just wondering, what leagues were ESPN showing last year? Thought this would be easy enough to find online, but having more trouble than I thought. Have any been confirmed as definites again for this year? Trying to weigh up whether its worth getting, the Premiership football alone wouldn't be enough to sway me.

ArmaniJeanss

They definitely showed weekly live SerieA and Bundesliga games last season.
I'm almost sure they had the contract for the Scottish league and Dutch League as well.

Might be worth bearing in mind that they have less English Premier League this coming season than last, 23 this season as opposed to 46 last season.

SickBoy

I think they had Russian football last season.

xtal191

Dutch football too.

CSF

Portuguese I think too? Not too bothered about the less Premiership, do they have any live French football? Or any other less popular leagues?

xtal191

I dont recall there being any french games, pretty sure they showed a few games from Portugal. They mostly have German and Italian matches!

Vokes

Seria A, Russian Premier, Eredivisie, Bundesliga, EPL, SPL, Europa League.

I think there was supposed to be the Portugese League too but don't recall seeing any. I do recall however seeing the odd one or 2 delayed MLS games.

Warper

ESPN's are decent plus they have a HD channel. They have also added a US Sports HD channel which I have never watched as I dont like Baseball, Basketball or Ice Hockey. They are going to show NFL games though this year which is alright. Aside from soccer this year they have Guinness Premiership rugby plus UFC, not sure what else.

Soccer - they normally show 2 live Serie A matches, a live Dutch game, a live SPL game, 2 live Bundesliga games. The odd time they might show a live Russian, Portuguese or MLS game though these are normally shown during midweek as repeats as they have practically no live sport during the week. As someone said their EPL fixtures has halved from 46 to 23, they have lost the Monday night fixture too. It is still prob worth the 12e a month if youre into your soccer but midweek there is nothing.

Plus be warned last season they didnt have the rights to show the Europa League games in the ROI, just a blank screen. So maybe check if this has been rectified for the coming season.

Pinturicchio

Warper wrote: »

Soccer - they normally show 2 live Serie A matches,

Hopefully that will increase this season. Serie A fixtures are going to be more spread out over the weekends.

Warper

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Hopefully that will increase this season. Serie A fixtures are going to be more spread out over the weekends.

Ya and last season they also showed some live Copa Italia games at least towards the latter stages.

xtal191

Warper wrote: »

ESPN's are decent plus they have a HD channel. They have also added a US Sports HD channel which I have never watched as I dont like Baseball, Basketball or Ice Hockey. They are going to show NFL games though this year which is alright. Aside from soccer this year they have Guinness Premiership rugby plus UFC, not sure what else.

Soccer - they normally show 2 live Serie A matches, a live Dutch game, a live SPL game, 2 live Bundesliga games. The odd time they might show a live Russian, Portuguese or MLS game though these are normally shown during midweek as repeats as they have practically no live sport during the week. As someone said their EPL fixtures has halved from 46 to 23, they have lost the Monday night fixture too. It is still prob worth the 12e a month if youre into your soccer but midweek there is nothing.

Plus be warned last season they didnt have the rights to show the Europa League games in the ROI, just a blank screen. So maybe check if this has been rectified for the coming season.

Huh?? I remember watching a few Europa League matches on ESPN!

Warper

xtal191 wrote: »

Huh?? I remember watching a few Europa League matches on ESPN!

?? I even rang up Sky about it. They didnt have the rights to Europa League matches in the ROI.

Oat23

Warper wrote: »

?? I even rang up Sky about it. They didnt have the rights to Europa League matches in the ROI.

This is true. Channel was blocked in ROI when Europa league was on.
TV3 was the channel that had the rights here I think?

Daemos

Maybe he had a Chorus NTL (or whatever they're called now) box? I do and was able to watch the Europa League on ESPN no bother

xtal191

Yeah i have NTL, the matches def werent blocked.

LuckyLloyd

Last Season:

Live

Premiership
Seria A
Bundesliga
Russian Premier
Eredivisie
Europa League
International Friendlies
Coppa Italia

Delayed / Highlights

All of the above
MLS
Scottish Premier
Portuguese


+ ESPN Classic shows a variety of interesting stuff
and if you have any interest in American sport ESPN America is absolutely essential

Total service gets the thumbs up from me!

Also, the Europa league stuff above is total bull****. They showed a bunch of matches from that competition on ESPN.

Nemanja91

Just a tip if you are getting ESPN, I rang them up about a month ago to price it as i wanted to watch UFC on it, they said 16 euro a month, I said No thanks and they offered it to me for free for 3 months. I'm not saying it will definitely work.

Oat23

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Also, the Europa league stuff above is total bull****. They showed a bunch of matches from that competition on ESPN.

It's not total bull****, it was just a misunderstanding. It was blocked on Sky but from what everyone is saying Chorus/UPC was fine.

Eire-Dearg

Yes, people who had ESPN on Sky couldn't access the Europa League games.

More frequent Serie A games, one or two Bundesliga games and nice mix of MLS and I'll be happy.

LuckyLloyd

Oatesy23 wrote: »

It's not total bull****, it was just a misunderstanding. It was blocked on Sky but from what everyone is saying Chorus/UPC was fine.

Oh okay. Why did Sky block it?