Betfair Live Video Preview: August 4 - 10

Live Video / Editor / 04 August 2008 / Leave a Comment

Ahead of a reunion with his old sparring partner, Arsene Wenger will be taking his telescope to Holland.

This morning it's all about doffing the tartan caps to Andy Murray and cracking open the biltong to toast Kevin Pietersen but tennis and cricket have had their days in the sun and the Premier League season is just 12 days away.

And Betfair Live Video, with its pudgy fingers all over the quickening football pulse, is giving you the chance to see some of the Premier League's big boys in pre-season action this week.

On Tuesday, as well as three Champions League second round matches, you can see Fernando Torres and Robbie Keane attempt to consumate their second speed date with goals as Liverpool take on Valerenga. Will it be a match made in heaven or will the Irishman turn out to be the type of over-priced, ageing, domestic signing which will do nothing to strengthen the reds' quest for that first league title in eighteen years?

You're more likely to find out what state the Simpsons is set in than get an impartial view out of the Live Video team but when you consider the player's... Enough.

On Wednesday you'll be able to see Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan play Seville in the Amsterdam Tournament. Earlier in the evening Arsenal meet Ajax in a game which sounds less a contest than a vision of footballing heaven. But you see where this is going, non?

It's going here: if the Gunners win and Inter win then Arsene Wenger's under-21 angels will come face to face with Jose Mourinho in a game which sounds less a contest than a footballing Paradise Lost . Mourinho and Wenger making Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders look like kindred spirits being the point.

And remember when Ronaldinho turned down Manchester United for Barcelona and Manchester City fans gave him a standing ovation when he arrived at Eastlands for a pre-season friendly a few weeks later? Well, on Saturday, you can see what reception the blues give the Brazilian when he turns out against them for AC Milan who, bizarrely, he chose to join instead of them. D'oh.

On Sunday you can see football from the Belgian, Russian and Brazilian leagues.