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Scottish Challenge Cup expanded to include teams from Wales & NI
The Scottish Challenge Cup is being expanded to include teams from Wales and Northern Ireland from season 2016-17, following approval from Uefa.
The SPFL say the majority of fixtures will take place during international weekends, while BBC ALBA, S4C and Premier Sports will all show live matches.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36483962
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09-06-2016, 13:50
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How can you call it Scottish then?.
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09-06-2016, 13:59
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How can you call it Scottish then?.
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What will happen if an team from Wales or N. Ireland win it? (View from an local Radio Channel - Clyde 1)
My own view they pick the name due to football here in Scotland - An ideal name would have been "The Celtic Challenge Cup".
Before anyone ask I am an Motherwell fan.
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But saying that England have some teams from Wales in their league - and yet they will not let Rangers or Celtic join.
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09-06-2016, 14:04
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I guess it's because all the matches are played in Scotland.
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09-06-2016, 14:06
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When the league started it was just the football league and Welsh teams were encouraged to join. When the Welsh league started it was predominantly amateur. Welsh clubs were given an option to switch to that league but didn't because of quality of opposition (the English Football league is professional) Most Welsh clubs who were in the English league chose to stay, even the smaller clubs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Wales
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I guess it's because all the matches are played in Scotland.
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Nope - from link:
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One Welsh side and one from Northern Ireland will be guaranteed a home tie.
Draws will be regionalised throughout the competition and seeded for the first three rounds, with the final to be played in March.
"We are very pleased to be supported by Uefa in delivering an element of cross-border competition through the invitation to our colleagues in Northern Ireland and Wales," said Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster.
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Sky's shares up after €3.5bn German Bundesliga TV deal.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...esliga-tv-deal
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Sky is paying €876m per year in the four-year deal with the German Professional Football Association (DFL), up from €486m under its existing deal, and has been forced to give up some of the rights to rival Eurosport.
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My own view they pick the name due to football here in Scotland - An ideal name would have been "The Celtic Challenge Cup".
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Yes, that name would be too similar to a certain Glaswegian football club.
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10-06-2016, 00:59
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Or maybe the channels aren't really viewed that much and they are trying to keep their low cost offering as competitive as possible.
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Talk Talk axe even more TV content.
http://www.seenit.co.uk/talktalk-axes-more-tv-content/
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Whatever way you look at it the end result will be higher prices for pay TV customers in my opinion.
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Whatever way you look at it the end result will be higher prices for pay TV customers in my opinion.
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prices will continue to go only ever one way Den and we all know that's up and up
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14-06-2016, 09:31
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Interesting that TalkTalk is playing hard ball on this too ie we're not going to accept your price rise, we'll leave it, thanks very much.
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14-06-2016, 09:37
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The trouble is because of that they will probably lose even more customers Andrew.
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