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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Follow the English Premiership on your wrist watch 

A Hong Kong based entrepreneur has developed a watch to help football fans track the progress of their favourite English teams

HONG KONG, 10th August 2004 – A unique watch, developed by a Hong Kong based entrepreneur, which enables the owner to view all fixtures and keep a record of the results of up to any three of their favourite teams in the English Premiership Football League is now on the market.

The watch, which comes in three colours, black, blue and red, is the brainchild of Robert Cave, Managing Director of Spfx Sports Watches (International) Ltd.

“At a business lunch with a friend three years ago, I said, wouldn’t be great if I could instantly know whom my favourite football teams are playing and the idea of a watch having this capability was born,” Robert Cave said.

“It has been quite a journey and it has resulted in the development of what is the first watch to read and download information direct from the Internet,” he said.

The watch costs £99 and can be purchased from SPfx Sports and 3 Lions Sport, plans are in progress to make the watch available through 2 of the UK's largest selling newspapers - The Sun and The News of the World


It comes with an electronic key which enables fixtures to be downloaded from the official SPfx Sports
website.

Up to three teams can be tracked and apart from detailing fixtures and allowing results to be tabulated, it also displays the time in 20 different time zones.

Incredibly when purchasing a watch, a buyer has the option to enter a lucky draw, drawn after the sale of the first 10,000 watches for US$250,000 worth of diamonds, or a rolling draw, made after the sale of batches of 150 watches, to win a five day trip to the UK and VIP treatment at a Premier League match.

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Sunday, August 01, 2004

EPL Broadcasts in Hong Kong 

Having spoken to many English Premier League fans in Hong Kong, there seems to be some confusion over how they are going to get to see the new season 2004/2005 games 'Live' on TV.

For the past few years, i-Cable have been showing the EPL games via ESPN/Star Sports as part of their broadcasts. However, as of 17th August 2004, ESPN/Star Sports will be shifting to Now Broadband TV - and this is where the confusion lies.

i-Cable (who have won the bidding for the broadcast of EPL games for Hong Kong) will still be showing these games, but the feed will be directly from the UK.

Even though ESPN/Star will still be broadcasting the EPL games out of Singapore, their footprint does not include Hong Kong and the footie that ESPN/Star will be showing in Hong Kong is the European Champions League, the FA Cup, the League Cup and selected England games (if i am informed correctly).

Therefor, EPL footie fans in Hong Kong, don't go and sign up for NOW BBTV and cancel your i-Cable subscription, otherwise you will be in for a big shock!

If you want to see the 'live' EPL games you will need i-Cable and if you want to watch ECL, FA Cup, League Cup and England games, you will need NOW BBTV.

So, if you are like me, you need to subscribe to both! yes, it will be a little bit more expensive but at least you'll get to see all of those fantastic games at your leisure.

Don't say that you weren't warned!

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