Money talks - loudly!

"We hate Setanta" was apparently the chant at the recent England football internationals - this of course a reference to the fact that the Setanta pay TV channel was the only one showing the matches. Bit unfair, I think - Setanta has every right to try and boost its membership by whatever means it chooses, and buying the exclusive rights to certain England matches may well do that. If you want to hate anybody, then direct your ire at the FA, who made this deal with Setanta knowing that by so doing it would be denying a large proportion of England fans the opportunity of watching the match on TV. Market forces ruled apparently, or to put it another way - greed won.