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Watch live Premier League football on TV for free this weekend
Thursday 2 February, 2012
Premier League matches to be screened for free in the UK for the first time thanks to ESPN and Nokia Lumia.
Football fan? Busy weekend ahead of you? Well you might want to can your plans as a feast of free live football is set to be served up over the next three days on a TV near you.
ESPN and ESPN HD, the sport network’s high-definition sibling, will be available for free from 6am tomorrow until Monday, thanks to a partnership with smartphone brand Nokia Lumia.
The highlight of this platter of free sport is undoubtedly Manchester City vs Fulham, which will be the first ever Premier League match screened live for free in the UK.
The match, which kicks off at 5.30pm on Saturday, with coverage beginning at 4.30pm, sees many people’s title favourites City attempt to recover from their defeat at Everton on Tuesday against an inconsistent Fulham side.
However, the free football fest begins tomorrow night, with German champions Borussia Dortmund visiting perennial relegation strugglers FC Nuremberg, where they will attempt to establish a clear lead at the top of the Bundesliga.
Saturday’s Premier League encounter is swiftly followed by some Serie A action. Sixth-placed Roma host fifth-placed Inter Milan, with both clubs fighting for the right to represent Italy in next season’s Champions League.
Sunday sees over seven hours of free football served up for your consumption - Genoa vs Lazio, Fiorentina vs Udinese and AC Milan vs Napoli in Serie A and Kaiserslautern vs Cologne in the Bundesliga.
Not a football fan? Then choose from the likes of New York Knicks at Boston Celtics in the NBA, Nick Diaz fighting Carlos Condit for the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) interim welterweight belt and the ATP World Tour 250, with coverage of the quarter-finals to the final being shown over the course of the weekend.
You can watch ESPN and ESPN HD for free this weekend on Freeview channel 34, Sky channel 417, BT Vision channel 34 and Top Up TV channel 34. If you have Freeview you made need to retune to receive ESPN.
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