Comments on: Setanta Sports

By: S.Nair

S.Nair — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:55:32 +0000

i m ripoff for £29.99 X 2 =£59.98 the first payment on Setanta sport,everytime when i call them i been given different number,till today i cant get my money back, if you give your bank details and that it, they can take what they want,say “TA TA” to Setanta.

By: Four Dinners

Four Dinners — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:17:02 +0000

least your team gets on Sky / Setanta..tenta…whatever

By: Brom

Brom — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:40:26 +0000

Excellent decision.

Sport isn’t what it’s cracked up to be anyway, load of rubbish if you ask me.

Except rugby of course,
and motor racing,
oh and cricket,
athletics,
erm

By: Petronius

Petronius — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:41:36 +0000

Hello Livid. Petronius here.

I sense a kindred spirit. I too am angry (and am with you on Setanta), but I channel my rage by poetry. I specialise in poems about snooker, but I thought you might see how I offload my existential angst in a recent work called ‘Donnie Darko’.

Here it is:

Donnie Darko

How I miss the Cold War;
We knew where we were back then:
The world would stop
With a great big pop
And we’d never be seen again.

WHY, DONNIE DARKO? WHY?

It would all have been down to the Russians,
The Trots, the Commies, the Reds.
Or to some it might seem
The American Dream
Might have got us all burned in our beds.

CRY, DONNIE DARKO! CRY!

Never fear, though, the world is still ending,
But at a much more leisurely pace:
With carbon emissions
And climactic conditions
We’ll bring down the whole human race.

FIE, DONNIE DARKO! FIE!

But it’s all so slow and so gradual,
We just can’t believe that it’s true;
Because the world won’t stop
With a great big pop,
But will slowly, steadfastly, stew.

DIE, DONNIE DARKO! DIE!

More cathartic outpourings can be found at
http://poemsbypetronius.blogspot.com.

We need to stick together. There’s an angry reader called Phrank. He’s even livider than you!

By: clarissa

clarissa — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:12:58 +0000

Maybe season tickets are the way to go …

By: TheBoy

TheBoy — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:50:19 +0000

Call advertising standards and complain. It does actually matter to do that, boring and pedestrian as it is!

By: Equine Pimp

Equine Pimp — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:35:21 +0000

Take my approach mate, support a really shit team, we’re never on TV so I don’t care.

By: xl

xl — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:18:59 +0000

Perhaps you have access to a sport bar/pub to watch the games? Benefits: free, drinking, opportunity to wear cowboy regalia.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:35:17 +0000

ARGGHH I hate that so much…Just imagine how many people don’t ask all the questions though? They count on people being all goggle-eyed at the adverts and not actually asking what the terms and conditions are.

Really shit advertising..

By: Peach

Peach — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:46:15 +0000

dude you rock, I need to set you upon Abbey National, Orange, Alliance & Leicester, HSBC, the Next Directory, NTL and BT (to name but only a few) for the drama-free, concise and brilliant way you cut through their shit where I can only ever manage “agggggggggggggggggggggaghajrhgkajfhkawyfkuahgekhaekgrhakeurygkahg”, throwing the phone through a window and storming out the room

By: bittersweet me

bittersweet me — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:24:20 +0000

how irritating.

but i just don’t *get* this fascination with watching sport

By: GH

GH — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:06:00 +0000

*Sigh* the dark corner of essex where I live has no cable and we’re not allowed to put a satellite dish up on the property. 5 channels of outstanding choice, all crap. Still I s’pose its better than trying to choose between 32 channels of crap.

Why don’t you try supporting a local team that you can afford the tickets to go and see live Mr A?

GH.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:41:46 +0000

Keef – Congrats!

Dr J – I know, how they fit in that magic box I’ll never know.

AFC – Always, absolutely bloody always!

Mr Farty – Indeed, the cheeky twats, but it’s someone reselling their stuff, I just checked. At least they are saying it’s £19.99 with one month pre-paid, which is a little bit more honest…

By: Mr Farty

Mr Farty — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:37:16 +0000

You realise that Google Ads are advertising Setanta Sports on your comments box? I’d give them 10 out of 10 for cheek.

By: AFC 30K

AFC 30K — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:34:39 +0000

Call me a sceptic, but there’s always a catch.

By: Keef

Keef — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:23:56 +0000

Actually I meant to put in more than that idiotic comment but my boss walked past at the wrong moment.
You should try getting rid of Virgin Media, when I switched from them to Sky, the woman on the phone accused me of being a willing dupe in Rupert Murdoch’s evil plan to restrict consumer choice and achieve world domination.
The argument that Sky were selling me what I wanted and Virgin wasn’t didn’t seem to impress her at all.

By: Dr J

Dr J — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:10:55 +0000

Hold on Angry, if your team are gong to play on the tv why the need to subscribe at all? Of course to be able to play on it they will be very very tiny people or risk falling off a lot….

Ever thought of taking up Subuteo?

By: Keef

Keef — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:09:10 +0000

First again yee-hah