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ROCKIN ROBIN  8)

oh dear.

its embarassing enough seeing it at the CG. now its gone national!

So football league highlights are now going to be Saturday nights after MOTD. Shame really, I quite liked ITVs sunday morning effort despite some random schedule changes.

I guess when I'm pissed up and back from the pub at midnight the town goals (or lack thereof) might seem a little bit better?

Sky+ is your friend..

I've never understood them repeating MOTD at 7am Sunday morning. If you weren't in at 11pm the night before, the chances of you being up at that time the next day are pretty remote.

I'm really looking forward to the BBC coverage of the Football League though. I always thought the ITV coverage was shit the same as their Premier League coverage was. Should be a lot better with the BBC, hopefully there will be a good chance of seeing some decent'ish highlights of a Swindon game at some point.

I love match of the day in the morning, im an early riser even if ive been on the piss........i can never remember the previous days results.

I think I may have asked this before but does this mean that there won't be football league highlights on Sky Sports anymore?

eugh what is that owl with the massive head and tiny beak??? the stuff of nightmares!

Good news everyone - the football league highlights willl be on the i-player

Fuckin' sweet. I was pretty pleased to be rid of ITV highlights to begin with, this is even better though (if the quality of coverage is more like Sky's than ITV's, that is).

Good for the young un's though jonny.

Splendid!

Fucking piece of shit doesn't work outside of the UK! Bollocks.

BBC Sport have announced plans for a brand new Saturday night highlights programme called 'The Football League Show', which will follow 'Match of the Day' and showcase all the goals from the Coca-Cola Championship, League 1 and League 2.

Presented by Manish Bhasin, The Football League Show will begin on Saturday 8th August at 11.10pm on BBC1. Joining Manish in the studio, with his unique brand of expert analysis and candid opinion on major talking points, will be Steve Claridge, whose playing career included spells at Leicester City, Portsmouth, Millwall and Birmingham City to name but four clubs. 5 Live regular Mark Clemmit takes up the role of roving reporter, bringing viewers all of the stories making the headlines.

Live coverage of The Coca-Cola Football League also returns to the BBC for the first time since 1988. Ten matches from the Coca-Cola Championship will be shown live, beginning with West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United on Saturday August 8th at 5.20 pm (kick-off 5.30pm) on BBC1.

BBC Sport Online will simulcast the live Championship games and provide match edits of the weekend's games' highlights. In addition, there will be a divisional goals round up from each division every week. All the Carling Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy goals will also be available.

The Football League Show will also be available for seven days on BBC iPlayer and on Red Button until midday on Sunday.

Highlights of the Coca-Cola Football League Play-Offs will bring the season to a dramatic conclusion.

Football League Commercial Director Stewart Thomson welcomed the news: "We are delighted to be starting this new relationship with the BBC, alongside our long-standing broadcasting partner Sky Sports.

"This season, supporters of Football League clubs will be able to enjoy their club's matches across a range of different broadcasting platforms, giving them the most comprehensive coverage of our competitions ever seen."

In addition to the BBC's offering, Sky Sports will be showing live coverage of up to 80 Coca-Cola Football League matches, including games from all three divisions and the Play-Off Finals at Wembley Stadium.

My housemates love the vids on youtube,its a novelty. Nice to see he's the only one in the video without the team shirt on.

Eurgh Steve Claridge.

As long as Manish and co avoid patronising us lowly football league fans it'll be okay. Better than waking up on a Sunday for highlights.

Interestingly Manish Bhasin was out on the lash in Old Town on Saturday night.

He was seen in Macenzies, among other places.

I thaught the Manish Bhasin was a wildlife reserve.....any info on him?

How long before someone at the BBC realises that Claridge is shite.

As is Spoony and the know nothing researcher bitch on 606.

Claridge, Spoony and Lovejoy.

What a trio.

Lovejoy is a muppet. Claridge is still too pally with all the players but is improving as a pundit.

They need to get Jonathan Wilson though.

I love claridge.

I think Lovejoy and Spoony have been dropped from 606 this year.

Ok not dropped totally


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/11/bbc-radio-5-live-606-tim-lovejoy

Samdy knows a trick that can get it working for you. I forgot what it is tho.

Something about making it seem like your PC is in/from the UK, to do with the IP address?

I understand why the BBC can't make all this iPlayer stuff available to foreign countries for free, but I don't see any reason why they shouldn't make it available at a carefully set price for emigrants and anybody who wants to watch their shows

I guess it comes down to the rights they have for a lot of the sports stuff and shows which they don't produce themselves.

You definitely have a point with the sports stuff. As for other shows, I guess they may have to renegotiate various contracts before they could stream on a global scale.

Also it's a bit step in the BBC's remit, going from public broadcasting to providing a global subscription service.

Do a search on IP Hider and take your pick.  It's all too technical for me - I've tried doing it 'in reverse' to watch the hurling in Ireland now Setanta's gone - but failed   :(

Just search for open uk proxy addresses (in google) then copy the details into your internet browser settings (in the connection proxy settings).

It will trick the iplayer into thinking you're in the uk.

Rockins gotta be more than a 2XL though.

This is true,however im pretty sure most mascots are bigger than any "usual-sized" shirts. The plymouth Argyle mascot looks a hell of a lot bigger than any football shirt size i've seen.He's got a hell of a gut on him.

It was probably filmed before our kit was made.