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"Damn, I wish I had listened to Norrabs insightful market advice when I had the chance" said absolutely nobody ever

Of course I understand the game of chess and the term "checkmate". Quite what relevance yesterday's proceedings had to your prior comments and the term "checkmate" is quite beyond me

"Checkmate" You wally

What's the next significant date/deadline in this tale?

574p in June 2010 pre bid. How much was it in July 2011 after Sky bid failed? £7? I'll tell you what: I'll buy all your Sky shares at 600p should the Fox bid fail. Does that allay your fears of languishing around the 5s?

Just sell them then bud. When were they last in the 5s?

The point is not "why anybody would pay more" it is "why would Murdoch pay more if £10.75 was accepted?" I would like it to be more too, but enough shareholders will accept £10.75 so he needn't pay more.

Put your money where your mouth is then and put a spread bet on them to fall. You will make a tidy profit which should offset your BT shares.

Surely that doesn't make any sense? The price is never going to go above the £10.75 offer price from Fox. If the sale goes ahead, Sky Plc share will no longer exist.

Yes, the news that Vince Cable and Ed Miliband are opposed to the takeover has had a devastating effect on the share price in the past couple of days....

Haha! Watch out Chicken Licken / Warren Buffett / pacemaker1000 is doing the rounds again in his attempt to foil the Sky bid! All hail the saviour of BT Plc!

FAKE NEWS! Sad!

Haha. Even a broken clock is right twice a day!

I hope nobody pays any attention to your ramblings norrab1. Why do you spend every day obsessively telling everyone that Sky is doomed to fail whilst simultaneously extolling the virtues of BT as if they are some angelic organisation that is both serving the country selflessly and yet beautifully profitable.

Where are these guys today telling us what a badly run company Sky are? How are BT getting on today?

The sky wasn't falling in Chicken Licken!

You are such a strange person. Taking time out if your day to come on here every few weeks to tell everyone about how disgracefully run you think this company is and how it doesn't have a future and yet I can only assume you hold no shares in Sky? Fine to express an opinion, but why keep coming on and saying how bad you think the company is? Have you got shares in BT? Methinks the lady doth protest too much!

Sorry, I exaggerated. The MLS on Sky is good news. But it isn't huge news. LA galaxy v NY Red Bulls will get about the same number of viewers in the UK as a darts event. Every set of sports rights are important right now, but there aren't enough viewers of MLS to warrant a 3% increase in sp! The jump is much more likely attributable to the fact Citigroup have placed Sky as one of their big ones to watch in Europe at the moment.

Don't think it is the MLS deal. Nobody will be buying sky sports because of that. It's more likely the £2billion debt negotiations with RBS.

Coronation - that's almost exactly my point. Sky won't have paid nearly £1billion for champions league rights(which currently only accounts for 3% of sky sports viewing) and yet will charge the same and prob keep the subscribers. Can BT pay £2billion for CL and one game of PL a week and expect people to pay £20-£25 a month for that? I don't think so but I may be proven wrong. The only thing that would REALLY damage sky is if the majority of PL rights went to BT. Which is why I don't think sky will allow that to happen. Which certainly means whoever gets those rights will pay an astronomical amount. I'm guessing we could see £3.5 billion plus!