The all-encompassing TV thread.

[Patrick Thistle]

Arsenal v Brighton could have been 6-2. Anyway that's it for me. I'm off to bed.

[Patrick Thistle]

OK. Come home from work a bit early to watch Georgia v Wales on S4C

[Patrick Thistle]

Ooh they cut short the Welsh anthem. Oops!

[Patrick Thistle]

Kakabadze is today's fun Eastern European surname

[Patrick Thistle]

Wales had a few chances. Pretty even game though. Weird seeing 2 strikers up front.

[Patrick Thistle]

Jeez that was a let off

[Patrick Thistle]

Ouch. Georgia defender got a ball blasted at his head there and needed treatment.

[Patrick Thistle]

Half time. Nil all.

[Patrick Thistle]

Great goal from Tom Lawrence. (Posting this a bit late as I was eating my tea)

[Patrick Thistle]

Woohooo. Will take that. Bit of a let off in the last few seconds when the Georgia forward sliced a shot out for a throw in.

[Furtho]

I thought it might be handy to use this thread to post details of games coming up on free-to-air TV. Today, Sat 7th Oct, there’s:

BBC Alba, Scottish Challenge Cup, Dundee United v Linfield. Programme start 5.05pm, kickoff 5.15pm.

ITV4, World Cup qualifier, Belarus v Netherlands. Programme start 7.25pm, kickoff 7.45pm.

[Sean of the Shed]

ITV4, World Cup qualifier, Belarus v Netherlands. Programme start 7.25pm, kickoff 7.45pm.

They are also showing Netherlands v sweden on Tuesday night at the same time. I think they might have a thing for Dutch football on that channel, or more likely a deal with the Dutch FA.

[Ray de Galles]

Woohooo. Will take that. Bit of a let off in the last few seconds when the Georgia forward sliced a shot out for a throw in.

That was almost payback for what I thought was a very rash substitution by Coleman in bringing on Woodburn for Lawrence in the final minutes. When it happened I wondered why he hadn’t brought Taylor on instead to give us some more defensive solidity in left midfield, sure enough the Georgian right back waltzed past Woodburn for that cross ( it wasn’t actually a shot, surely?).

[Satchmo Distel]

Does the Netherlands game become largely futile if Sweden score a hatful v Luxembourg? Goal difference would get beyond Netherlands' reach. OTOH I'm not sure what happens if the bottom team's results are excluded (are they?*)

*Nope, according to the rules: "goal difference in all group matches" applies

[Furtho]

There’s another live game on at the moment.

S4C (i.e. Sgorio), Scottish Challenge Cup, TNS v Elgin City. Kickoff was 4.30pm.

[3 Colours Red]

They are also showing Netherlands v sweden on Tuesday night at the same time. I think they might have a thing for Dutch football on that channel, or more likely a deal with the Dutch FA.

Maybe the KNVB are giving away their share of the rights because they're desperate for someone - ANYONE - to pay to broadcast their current shower of shite. They've recalled Ryan Babel... enough said.

[Furtho]

I watched the first half of TNS v Elgin, very comfortable for TNS who were 3-0 up by half time and went on to win 4-0. The second half of Dundee United v Linfield has just started and although it’s 0-0 Linfield look much the stronger of the teams. Their travelling fans sang Rule Britannia at the start, to boos from the Arabs’ support.

[ursus arctos]

A goal by Iwobi against Zambia has punched Nigeria's ticket for Russia

[Furtho]

Dundee United evidently scored in 90th minute to beat Linfield 1-0.

[Snake Plissken]

At the risk of stealing Furtho's thunder, Albacete vs Lorca is on FreeSports (Freeview 95) at 10.55am tomorrow.

[Furtho]

No no, there is no thunder. The more the merrier.

[Patrick Thistle]

Cheers Furtho and Snake. I'd have been interested in watching the games today.

[Satchmo Distel]

How do Scots living in the USA get access to tomorrow's game? Norway v N Ireland is on ESPN, with NI needing a point to be sure that Greece cannot catch them in the play-off race.

Wales v ROI's (apparent) absence from ESPN is even more of a gaffe; there must be a lot of interest in that game.

[ursus arctos]

Fox Sports 2, Fox Deportes and Fox on-line

ESPN does not have rights to all of the qualifiers, though I don't fully understand how they are split with Fox.

[Satchmo Distel]

For none of which I have a subscription, although if I were Scots or Welsh I would obviously get one