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To the relief of millions around the country today, Australia’s ethnic language public broadcaster SBS has saved the day.
SBS, or Sex Before Soccer as it is more commonly known, has been given the rights to broadcast all of the remaining World Cup group games from Optus.
This comes after the multinational telco absolutely butchered the coverage of arguably the biggest global sporting event, which only comes around every four years.
Users around Australia were left fuming this weekend as streaming errors and technical issues plagued the coverage leaving many unable to watch the matches.
As a result, the Singapore based telco has handed over the rights to SBS, the spiritual home of football, or soccer as it is known in this country by non-round ball fans.
The channel which is also well known for their late night Scandinavian erotica films and crime noir has brought football out of obscurity and thrust it right into the national spotlight over the last decade or so, only to have their rights to the sport swallowed up by some multinational company who doesn’t give a fuck about the sport.
“This is a great announcement for fans of football in this country,” SBS said in a statement.
“All episodes of Inspector Rex, Are You The One and Erotic Tales, have been canned. We are going full-on football from here on out,” it said.
Malcolm Turnbull told our reporters that he is over the moon with the compromise.
“I was most upset when Allen (Lew, the CEO of Optus) promised me to fix the whole thing but didn’t do it, so it’s great that he has come to the table,” Turnbull said.
“Do you think SBS could maybe fix the NBN too while they are at it?”
More to come.
