Toppling the Murdoch Empire: Could a Pub Landlady from Portsmouth help seal BSkyB's fate? is a
post from: Just Football
While the News Corporation / News International phone hacking storm continues to rumble with
menace, Theo Fan reports on another threat facing Rupert Murdoch, and how the fate of the televised
game and BSkyB could rely on a pub landlady from Portsmouth:
Who will have the biggest impact on domestic football in the next 10 years?
That rag known as The News of the World is to shut-down this weekend.
Following its disgraceful 'phone-hackings' of a murdered teenage girl, victims of the 2005 London
tube bombings and deceased British soldiers, the 'newspaper' was under intense pressure from the
public and the parliament to act.
Since I first ventured onto these hallowed pages back in about 1924, there have been those
amongst the readership convinced that I've had to move aside my Aston Villa season ticket and
"Champions 1981" coffee mug to get to my keyboard, whilst Peter Withe winning the European Cup via
both posts from a yard and a half out plays on a constant tape loop in the background.
Venues showing live Premier League matches from foreign broadcasters are not breaking EU law, court
advised
Continued gnashing of teeth over England's lost bid for the 2018 World Cup. It appears that the
English bid wasn't beyond the odd bit of deal making though. Including on the issue of free-to-air
sport on TV:
The BBC and ITV were set to join forces to battle a secret government decision that could have
handed Sky the chance to air the 2018 World Cup.
