Please please can we have our Barclays Premier League coverage back …..sniff sniffIt seems like only yesterday that Leonard Ryan and Michael O’Rourke launched Setanta back in 1990. The story of the two wise guys charging £10 each to see the Ireland Holland world cup game in an Irish dance hall because UK broadcasters wouldn’t brings a patriotic tear to the eye.
Sadly our friends had to announce this week that the premiership coverage will go to those crazy yanks – ESPN. For Setanta Sports News, a nine-minute greatest hits compilation preceded the big turn-off. Viewers of Setanta Sports 1 got the same result, without the fanfare.
A minute's silence, please, for a departed friend.