the viewing figures much lower than you might expect for Champions League football. It is really not the TV money draw in Asia many people perceive it to be. Its all about the Premier League when it comes to negotiating tv contracts. My scouse, the often busted but seldom battered Mr Flabby Whore Alien. Who will not send in cottoned wool, bubbled rap, shiny sliver spaced blanket and sum beefy Bovril to keep it warm and safe and snag as bag in a rag? Oh Whore yours is a sweeter leftish peg Fleeced us? Why, because SC have overpaid in desperation to hitch their brand to a team well-supported in Asia? They approached the Mancs first. because they paid us substantially less than standard charted and other sponsors in the premier league at a time when the club was regularly in the top 4 and even won the champions league, so im not gonna cry over standard chartered paying us shed loads of money in this instance Seriously, we get all the matches in the CL that involve the top English clubs in Malaysia and Singapore, and I am sure that China etc are also getting their own feed as well. I did not phrase my post correctly, what I meant to say is that negotiating for CL tv rights are not as high a value as Premier League tv rights purely because of the time difference and available viewing numbers. When I said having the ability to watch the