RTE's choice of 2nd leg game

Surely they are not going to show the Liverpool - PSV 2nd leg ahead of Bayern - Milan…are they ?

When they showed Man U v Lille ahead of Milan v Celtic when the United game was dead and buried I lost all respect for Alkin.

Do tv companies not have any say in the draw at the quarter final stage? Obviously the groups are manipulated to split teams from the same country across both stages of the draw for an even split for tv. The 1-3 balance in English teams for Tuesday/Wednesday is very odd. And there’s no same city teams left that could have forced them to do it that way.

It really woudn’t surprise me if they did show liverpool psv next way. Very anglocentric choice of matches so far.

Quite true. Differences between this country and england are being eroded all the time.

Excuse my ignorance Raven but who is he?

thanks raven

they are showing munchen milan. don’t think liverpool attract high ratings for rte. maybe that has something to do with it.

well celtic obviously dont!

Eh yes they do. Look at top rated footballl club mathces over last few years and Celtic and Manchester United are always way ahead of any other clubs.

why didnt they show milan v celtic?

Manu are top rated side accoring to Steven Alkin (head of Rte Sport). Also they were promoting their investment in epl. Don’ want to promote Celtic as Setanta show their matches. There was posts about this at the time commenting on what a silly decision it was. If your trying to suggest Celtic and Liverpool get comparable ratings then your wrong.