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After qualifying for back to back World Cups and a never ending line of hopeful A-league franchises, Ben Buckley must be licking his lips at the thought of TV rights come 2011. I can see Buckley now yelling with delight “show me the money!”
Surely free-to-air TV is the next big step after the World Cup. You would think with the other codes seemingly shooting themselves in the foot on a weekly basis, and with football growing so fast every year, that the broadcasters would be fighting over who gets the TV rights to football.
If football got a deal on par with AFL or NRL, they would blow the other codes out of the water and claim the mantle as the nations most loved sport for sure.
I can see it now: Fox coverage of every game, live for Socceroos and A-league, with extension to B-League when and if it comes in, and free-to-air TV, with Friday and Saturday night and Sunday evening games, plus highlights package. Football fans can only hope and dream that this becomes a reality ASAP.
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