It's a f*cking joke. Imagine if the English FA sold their home matches TV rights to an American channel like ESPN who would only show the game on PPV in England, and gave ITV the rights to show matches an hour after it ended meaning you'd be watching crap highlights starting at eleven o'clock at night. It just wouldn't happen, only in Ireland would that happen
As for British TV's coverage, fiddle music, mispronouncing Mark Kinsella, Gary Doherty & Kevin Kilbane (at least Paul McGrath and Kevin Moran aren't still around), harping on about Ireland's great team spirit giving us no credit for doing well, joking how the team is really an England B team, calling the team Eire the list goes on (oh and Bobby Robson reffering to Ireland as "we" and "us" during the WC )
Plus this probablly means the end of Bill O'Herlihy aswell as Apres Match. I don't think Bill does any other presenting apart from Ireland games on RTÉ.
Okey doke...we'll leave it there so
I hope there's going to be a protest about this, football in this country is a disgrace. The FAI are without a doubt the spawn of satan and there's no f*cking way I'm going to get a foreign TV channel to watch my country play.
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