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OT: Can't find your favorite team on TV? Buy the TV rights yourself!
That's what this Irish football fan did after he moved to Australia and couldn't find the Irish national team's matches on TV down under:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soc...a/2725981/
Quote:As a lifelong supporter of Ireland's soccer team, David Feeney found it frustrating that so few of his team's international matches were broadcast on Australian TV after he made the move Down Under.
So Feeney, a Sydney-based IT director, decided to buy the television rights for Ireland's next World Cup qualifier on Sept. 6 against Sweden. And, just for good measure, he has also organized to show England's game against Ukraine on Sept. 10.
Those matches will be televised on Feeney's fledgling "Channel 33" in the early hours of the morning on Australia's east coast at venues including sports bars and a casino in Sydney and the Celtic Club in Melbourne.
He's also negotiating to televise the matches in New Zealand and some Pacific Islands.
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