FA Cup Preview, Team News and Prediction
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The BBC only has two televised FA Cup third-round fixtures this weekend and both will be broadcast on Saturday. ITV will not be showing any FA Cup matches after the BBC agreed a four-year deal with TNT Sports, the main rights holder, to co-exclusively broadcast 14 games per season.
For the upcoming third-round fixtures, Macclesfield’s clash with Premier League side Crystal Palace will be on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer, while later that same day, Spurs vs Aston Villa will be shown on terrestrial TV. However, those matches will also be shown across the TNT network, along with 20 other fixtures.
The BBC and ITV have lost the rights to the FA Cup to TNT Sports and now face a fight to sub-let them from the pay-TV network. The world’s oldest cup competition will go back behind a paywall – at least in part – from the season after next after ...
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It’s that time of the year again, with the Premier League and Championship teams set to enter the FA Cup at the third-round stage. Crystal Palace enter the tournament as defending champions, having defeated Manchester City in the final last season.
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