Sky Sports News reporting.....

Exactly, grow up indeed.

 

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=656557&sec=england&cc=5739

 

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every sports fan in scotland has setanta

 

Tears will be flowing then lol

 

The SPL deal is not the reason Setanta are broke. They made a contract with the EPL that was made up of fantasy figures they could never even dream of affording.

 

**** i thought that they had been saved not long ago. didnt some guy invest?

 

No, he legged it when he realised setanta owed something like £70 million to the taxman.

 

he was a prik anyway

 

My Scottish friend is spot on for the spl being the bread and butter.they made there name with the spl.

 

I think they were doing fine with their SPL, European football and Irish sports etc. but were never going to challenge Sky or particularly make a lot of money without aiming for the more mainstream fan. Thus they went out willy nilly buying basically everything sky didn't show and poaching some rights, paying more than they should have done-most notably on the EPL, SPL and FA contracts.

At the end of the day, they gave it a go but were in wayyyyy over their heads. Somebody (I can't remember here or if it was on digital spy) said-"Why would people want to pay x-amount for Setanta to see stuff Sky used to show anyway?"

As in the SPL, FA Cup, US Tour Golf, Boxing etc.

 

Setanta are finished, it's just a matter of time now. People will start cancelling their subscriptions now that there's no football. They can ill afford to lose anymore customers.

 

if your on the 3 month deal with them than you'll have to wait for them to go bust. i guess if you cancel your direct debit it's unlikely they'll go to court to get their money back. lol

It's all about ESPN now.