We’ve got some great sport on our screens this weekend, with top football, international rugby and loads more.
Starting tomorrow at 12.30pm, we’ve got one of the Premiership games of the season on our screens, with Manchester United at home to Liverpool on Sky. As soon as that finishes we switch to Ireland-Scotland in the Six Nations, always a cracking game, on one screen, with the other switching to the usual results service. We stay with the results until they are ll through and then, at 4.45pm, it will be France vs England in what promises to be a brutal game of rugby.
That isn’t the end of Saturday’s sport because at 5.30pm we’ll have one screen showing football again. We do have a dilemma here, however, in that we know that both the games available will have some members interested, while they kick off while the rugby’s still on one screen until about 6.20pm. Our choice is Chelsea against Palace on BT and Wolves against Villa at the top of the Championship on Sky. Ordinarily we’d always pick the Prem game on BT ahead of the Champs game on Sky, and this is the pecking order this time. However, if there are no rugger watchers in, or no Chelsea/Palace fans, we will put the Champs game on.
On Sunday we start with Premiership football, when Arsenal host Watford at 1.30pm on Sky. Then at 4pm we’ll be showing Bournemouth-Spurs, also on Sky. There is also the Wales-Italy rugby match on BBC at 3pm but we’re assuming that there will be less interest in that so if you want to watch that please ask Gordon nicely and then stand well back.
The football action doesn’t end there because on Monday night at 8pm we’ll be showing Man City-Stoke. In addition, on every evening through Sunday we can show the Valspar Championship golf from early evening on – just ask at the bar.
Next week we have Champions League footy before we move on to the final Six Nations weekend and the FA Cup quarter finals. And please, quiz goers, don’t forget that BT showing the Man Utd-Brighton quarter final at 7.45pm next Saturday has forced us to move this month’s quiz back to March 24th.