ESPN will Show Live 46 matches until 2010 and  23 a Season From 2010-2013

22 June, 2009

The Premier League today awarded ESPN two exclusive live media packages for the 2009/2010 season, and one package from August 2010 for the following three seasons. The agreement means ESPN will deliver fans in the UK 46 Barclays Premier League matches this coming season and 23 matches each season after that until May 2013.

“We are clearly delighted that our bid for exclusive media rights to the Barclays Premier League matches in the UK has been successful,” said Lynne Frank, ESPN Managing Director in Europe, Middle East and Africa.  “This is a huge step for our business, and we look forward to working with the Premier League, football clubs and distributors to bring UK sports fans all the excitement they expect in Premier League football.”
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Arsenal may have sealed themselves the fourth spot out of the reach of Aston Villa and Everton, but they are still striving to clinch a third place finish which will see them automatically seeded into next season’s Champions League group stage.

The Gunners are six points off local rivals Chelsea going into Sunday’s big London derby clash at the Emirates. Arsenal will have the opportunity to cut this gap to only three points before both play two more games to conclude their respective season.

As it stands at the moment in the English Premier League, it looks like Arsenal are far from Chelsea’s reach but Sunday’s match could steer up a crunching end to the Blues’ campaign. Guus Hiddink’s men were well on course to winning the Premiership title at the beginning of the season – so as Arsenal – but they eventually got piped away by rivals Liverpool and defending champions Manchester United.

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