If you support a football team that’s in the Championship, League One or League Two, watching match highlights in the UK is a real pain. The BBC’s Football League Show starts at 11:55pm, which means staying up past midnight just to see 5 seconds of your favourite striker missing an open goal. Well, that’s about to change. Channel 5 has stolen the rights to Football League highlights from the BBC, and next season it’ll be launching a new 90-minute show on Saturdays at 9pm. That means it’ll finish just in time for Match of the Day — the perfect appetiser while you wait for Lineker and friends to recap the Premier League. Channel 5 is hardly known for its stellar sports coverage, but now that it’s got Football League TV rights for three years, hopefully it’ll learn to do a better job than the BBC.
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Via: Guardian
Source: Football League