Sunday, 31 January 2021

Break in Transmission

The Setanta Sports channel's UK venture collapsed in the summer of 2009. When Saturday Comes asked Gavin Willacy to look at how this would hit the English conference and had me assess what it meant for the Scottish Premier League. 



Click here for the web version of these pieces, printed in magazine issue 270 (August 2009). 


"Ultimately, the SPL probably did more damage to Setanta than vice versa."

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