A League: July 20 / 24
Seven's coverage of A-League football begins on Saturday July 20 on Seven and 7mate.
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Seven’s coverage of A-League football begins on Saturday July 20 on Seven and 7mate with between Manchester United and Liverpool.
Seven’s exclusive broadcast of the two marquee A-League football matches kicks off on Saturday July 20 when reigning EPL champions Manchester United take on the A-League All-Stars before a full house at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium.
Then on Wednesday July 24 all eyes will turn to the MCG when Melbourne Victory faces off against the might of Liverpool.
Seven’s coverage of the two games will be hosted by Seven News Sports Presenter Jim Wilson, with match commentary from accomplished A-League broadcaster Robbie Thomson and special comments from Michael Bridges, the former Leeds striker now with the Newcastle Jets. Michael Zappone will conduct on-pitch interviews for both games.
In Sydney former Socceroos’ star Jason Culina joins the panel with Seven’s Joh Griggs also reporting from around the stadium. Then in Melbourne, local Melbourne Heart manager John Aloisi comes onboard with Giaan Rooney bringing all the colour from around the MCG.
Both Manchester United and Liverpool are undertaking pre-season tours of Asia and Australia ahead of the launch of the 2013/14 English Premier League season in August.
Manchester United arrives in Sydney on Sunday July 14 under manager David Moyes, who has taken the reigns from retired great Sir Alex Ferguson. The Red Devils boast the biggest names in world sport, among them Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs and Robin van Persie.
Liverpool lands in Melbourne on Sunday July 21. Managed by Brendan Rogers, The Reds are led by inspirational captain Steven Gerrard and feature Australian keeper Brad Jones.
Manchester United v A-League All Stars
Sat 20 July, ANZ Stadium
Sydney 6:30pm Channel 7
Brisbane 6:30pm Channel 7
Melbourne 6:30pm 7mate
Adelaide 6pm 7mate
Perth 630pm Channel 7
Liverpool v Melbourne Victory
Wed 24 July, MCG
Sydney 7pm 7mate
Brisbane 7pm 7mate
Melbourne 7pm 7mate
Adelaide 6:30pm 7mate
Perth 5pm 7mate
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11 Responses
Giaan Rooney? Ugh.
Looking forward to it! I don’t have Foxtel, so its great to watch these games. Thanks for all the dates and times.
@Pertinax
Not where I live. I get stuck on a 2hr delay on 7 which it airs at 6.30pm AEST, but I think it won’t be in HD at all for any of them
@ArsenalFC – that’s comforting to read. I absolutely detest the over-excited schoolboys that Seven has calling the AFL.
@Armchair Analyst: Robbie Thomson has been commentating on Fox Sports for the A-League for at least a couple of seasons now, and also some of their international football. He is a good commentator although not really someone I would describe as “showtime” which is what I though Seven would have gone for. But he is very knowledgable which will do the coverage justice.
Michael Bridges used to feature on World Football News on ONE HD when it was a sports channel. Micheal Zappone is a Fox Sports sideline reporter so he is well known to football fans.
These are United and Liverpool pre-season tour matches to be shown in their cable TV channels and who have presumably on sold the rights to Seven. Seven may do OK out of them. Ten did well picking up the Lions games that Nine didn’t want (spent $2.5m and raked in a reported $8m).
And Seven forgot to mention that it is the Foxtel A-League All-stars who are playing Manchester United 🙂
@William
The match is live. Kick-off is 7:30pm Saturday 20th of July.
I’m not watching that Saturday night game because it is delayed by 2 hours
@ arron1004: good news for you. The up-coming A-League season will be on sbs, not on ten. Although, it will be just Friday night games (the rest on pay tv)
Good to see these 2 exhibition games live on fta, even if it is on Seven. Especially looking forward to the Man Utd v All-Stars game.
A-League should be on sbs not ten!!!
Ugh of all the photos you had to choose Archie Thompson and Flores.
Can’t wait for the All-Stars game. Hope it rates well and the commercial networks see some worth in investing in the A-League. Ten should have made a real go for it, Seven have AFL, Nine have NRL, A-League should be on Ten.
This is good news. HOwever i have not heard the commentators before, they could have just hired David Basheer from SBS to do these two matches, Network TEN did the same when Sydney FC took on LA Galaxy. Overall aslong as its Live thats all i care about.