Tag: premier-league
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Newcastle United, hope and me
Football, said the former Italy and AC Milan manager Arrigo Sacchi, is “the most important of the unimportant things in life.” My happiness doesn’t hinge entirely on Newcastle United’s results — which is just as well I suppose. But I am a lot happier when they win. I like football, the sport, as a spectacle…
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‘Prem-flix’ is the perfect tonic for piracy
Last month, a gang of five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to mass audiences were jailed at Chesterfield Crown Court. The ringleader was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The operation, which supplied modified VPN-altering satellite boxes, is thought to have made more than £7 million from at least 50,000 users. Piracy…