The Barclays Premier League Thread 2014/2015

[Lineker]

Christopher Wreh.

[Thrilla]

Park Chu-Young is available >_>

[MDK]

Alan Smith

[Benji]

Ian Wright.

[TCO]

...Wright, Wright!

[Lineker]

Raheem Sterling is out of the Liverpool/Spurs game tonight through injury.

The Football Association says Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson will not face any disciplinary action over the incident with Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur. But the FA has written to Pearson to remind him of his responsibilities.

[Benji]

Which includes not telling fans to "Fuck off and die", I assume.

[Thrilla]

To be fair, they're only Leicester fans >_>

[Lineker]

Liverpool will wear a special one-off kit for tonight's game against Tottenham in support of the Seeing is Believing charity.

This will be the fourth consecutive year that the Merseyside club will join forces with their main sponsor by trading their usual logo with that of the charity in order to generate support and funds for Seeing is Believing.

Five of the Liverpool jerseys will be signed by players and put onto a week-long eBay auction to help raise money for the charity, with all donations being matched by main sponsor Standard Chartered.

[Colly]

That's all cool and stuff, bit why are only five of the shirts being auctioned? Seems daft.

[Rich]

Because the rest will be retained for posterity?

Or there are only 5 players anyone likes/cares about?

[Thrilla]

The rest will all go to the corporate Rich sponsors >_>

[Lineker]

Premier League set to announce record £4.4bn TV rights deal

Is there a set time for the announcement/press conference?

Right now on SSN.

For the 2016-2019 period, Sky awarded five packages - they get Friday evenings, Saturday afternoons (12.45 KOs), Sunday afternoons, Monday evenings and bank holidays. BT get Saturday evenings (17.30KOs) and midweek games.

[Lineker]

The total PL UK rights have been sold for £5.136bn.

[King Ellis]

Friday evenings? :/

[DavidMarrio]

So BT have basically just swapped the Saturday lunch time for the Saturday evening really.

Wasn't Friday nights normally for football league games? So now the Prem are getting extra TV games and the football league less

[stokeriño]

Guess my TV bills won't be going down any time soon.

[Lineker]

Estimated upshot: from 2016-17 season, BOTTOM club in PL will get c. £99 million prize money. And top club will get £156 MILLION. Blimey.

— sportingintelligence (@sportingintel)

February 10, 2015

Great news for players, agents, estate agents, Ferrari salesmen...etc. @premierleague deal is a bumper £5.136 billion for 2016-19.

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter)

February 10, 2015

Scudamore admits TV deal will widen the gap between the PL and FL but points out they need to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona.

— Ben Rumsby (@ben_rumsby)

February 10, 2015

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

The rest will all go to the corporate Rich sponsors >_>

The football family!

[Rich]

I like the money I will be receiving