Soccer Football - Scottish League Cup - Final - Rangers v Celtic - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - February 26, 2023 Celtic's Alistair Johnston celebrates after winning the Scottish League Cup REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Last week Viaplay Sport announced that they were pulling out of UK broadcasting which covers the League Cup run by the SPFL and the Scottish Cup from the SFA.
Yesterday the Scandinavian broadcaster announced that they will be showing Celtic’s friendly against Wolves from Dublin on Saturday.
It seems a strange move but with a large number of UK subscribers the last thing that Viaplay want is to have to repay money that they have already collected.
Live pre-season action coming your way! ?
Dublin’s Aviva Stadium welcomes Celtic and Wolves as both Brendan Rodgers and Julen Lopetegui ramp up their teams’ preparations for the new season ???
Watch it live on Viaplay Sports 1 from 1.55pm on Saturday afternoon ? pic.twitter.com/7nEyZJfxUR
— Viaplay Sports UK (@ViaplaySportsUK) July 24, 2023
Since announcing that they are pulling out of UK broadcasting Viaplay have continued to show Viaplay Cup ties with tonight’s match between Falkirk and Dundee United being screened as planned.
Viaplay also have the contract for Scotland international matches, at the weekend they were promoting coverage of the autumn internationals against Cyprus, Spain and France.
Their next date of interest for Celtic supporters will be August 20/21 when Viaplay will the first knock-out stage of the League/Viaplay Cup, last season, then under Premier Sports Celtic’s 4-1 win away to Ross County was shown live.
I see sevco are playing DUMMY MONEY transfer BINGO in the daily sevco today with one of their so called journalists giving the total amount spent on transfer fees so far this season is £14 million,the only problem with that is that Danilo £6 million and Ciffentes £400,000 have not signed as yet but apparently that’s still £14 million spent on transfer fees,these journalists would give big DONALD FAKE NEWS an Boris the LIAR a run for their money.
And the Sevco Guillibears will believe every word Scud and keep these awful publications on their life support machines a little longer…
Tragically there are still some Celtic fans buying it – I caught a guy in The Hoops doing it the other day in Fort William on a booze up –
Why do Celtic ‘fans’ support these organisations… I will never ever understand the mentality of it all !
I think they would be happy to televise all celtic games home and away its just the other spl that has cost them to pull out through no fault of celtic we are constantly losing tv money through the badly run spl clubs the league and the sfa who wint support crass root football sfa self judged no one queastion where the money thats earned fir scittish football used to pay for scottish football there has to be something or someone checking where the money is going