Super Six 29/8/09

My super six predictions:

Blackburn 0-1 West Ham

Bolton 0-2 Liverpool

Stoke 1-1 Sunderland

Tottenham 2-1 Brum

Wolves 0-0 Hull

Sheffield 1-2 West Brom

I wish...

Jimmy Bullard's Sky Profile

Clearly already seen on Soccer AM, but I missed it and just found this on Ed's Blog.

Super Six is back

Good news everybody...

Soccer Saturday Super Six is back - first round is this weekend - August 8th - get your entries in before 3pm saturday

For those that don't know - super 6 is a tipping competition run by Sky, predict six perfect scores
and win a hundred grand - easy, nobody has ever done it, but the best tipster each week gets five or ten grand and there's monthly and season prizes

It is COMPLETELY FREE to enter - you do not even have to set up a Skybet account, or deposit money or anything of the like - it's just potential free cash being given away so that Sky keep your attention

Thus ends this public service announcement

(I also suggest some healthy competition between contributors is in order)

Sky 5 Setanta 1

Sky Sports is today following on from their recent announcement of having secured 4 of the 6 Premier League TV packages for UK broadcasting, by announcing that that they have now won a 5th Package. Setanta, who currently have 2 packages, will only have the Saturday Evening Package (Package D) for the 2010/11 to 2012/13 seasons.

That means that Sky will have 115 of the 138 televised games.

The total value realised by the auction is £1.782bn (5% up on last deal) and Richard Scudamore commented that this puts in place stability for the Premier League clubs and allows them make their plans.

Setanta will be disappointed in losing 23 Premier League games, but they do have the England Internationals and the FA cup coverage.

I had also blogged previously that the BBC recently announced they had retained the rights to host Match of the Day until end of the 2013 season.

Bellamy To Have Medical At Man City

Sky Sports is reporting that a deal has been agreed between Man City and West Ham for Craig Bellamy. The fee is undisclosed, though Bryan Swanson of Sky Sports believes the fee to be up to £14m. That is about £94m less than their projected bid for Kaka.

Gianfranco Zola will now make a striker top priority and will have at least some of the Bellamy funds to spend.