Future
Football on Five is channel 5 longest running non news program airing from 1997 to the present however coverage is under threat after the 2011/12 Europa League Final as Channel 5 has lost the contract for the Europa League to ITV Sport who now have first and second pick of each round with the rest of the matches being shown on ESPN from the season 2012/13. The matches will be shown on ITV4 and should a British club get to the Quarter Finals onwards then the matches will be shown on ITV1. As channel 5 were not mentioned by UEFA when the rights were announced it seems they lost their Europa League rights and it seems unlikely they will win any other big football contracts which puts into doubt the future of Football on 5.
In July 2012, Channel 5 announced that they would be carrying on Football on 5 with pre-season friendly coverage, starting with Southampton vs Ajax on 28 July.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)
“And all your future lies beneath your hat.”
—John Oldham (1653–1683)