Premier Soccer Saturday
| Premier Soccer Saturday | |
|---|---|
| Starring |
Bill O'Herlihy Peter Collins Darragh Maloney Johnny Giles Liam Brady Eamon Dunphy Ray Houghton Ronnie Whelan Kenny Cunningham Richie Sadlier Trevor Steven George Hamilton |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| No. of seasons | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 570 to 1710 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | RTÉ One |
| Original release | September 1998 – May 2008 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Monday Night Soccer Soccer Republic Game On |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Premier Soccer Saturday (formerly The Premiership) was formally the principal weekly club association football programme on RTÉ.
In June 2008, RTÉ Sport confirmed that due to cost cutting initiative's to save the station up to €1.3m a year, it will no longer have the Irish rights to television coverage of the Premier League, with the 2007-08 Premier League season being the final season shown on RTÉ Sport.
It was broadcast on RTÉ Two every Saturday evening between 19:30 and 21:00 and occasionally on Sunday (when there was an important game played that day) during the English league soccer season, showing highlights of Premier League football matches. When the show was aired on a day other than Saturday, it used the appropriately customised title (e.g. Premier Soccer Sunday). The programme only showed English association football, as Monday Night Soccer covers Irish association football.
The most recent theme tune for the show was a cover of the Republica song, "Bloke".
The programme was first broadcast in September 1998 as The Premiership. Between August 2004 and May 2007, RTÉ also had the broadcasting rights to 15 live Premier League matches on Saturday afternoons (kick off: 15:00). These programmes were called Premiership Live. Setanta Sports obtained exclusive rights to the games from the 2007-08 season.
On 18 December 2010, five games were postponed on Saturday and only two games went ahead. So, because there was only two games to show highlights of in one and a half hours. So, due to that they showed extended highlights of both games and talked about the thought of the Premier League having a winter break.
On 19 December 2010, a Premier Soccer Sunday special was scheduled because there was two games on that day and one was between Manchester United and Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. However, both of the games were postponed which meant there was no games in the Premier League that day and Premier Soccer Soccer Sunday was cancelled that day.
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