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Amazon secures rights to stream Premier League matches, challenges dominance of Sky, BT Sport

Amazon has secured the rights to show English Premier League football matches for the first time in further evidence of their financial might in the bidding wars for sports events, the league said Thursday.

Premier League TV rights for 2019-2022 cycle sold for £4.46 billion, two live packages still up for grabs

The five Premier League packages of the seven to be sold have netted £700 million less than the total achieved in 2015, when 168 games were up for grabs.

India needs its own Drogba or Ronaldo to get hooked to football: Rio Ferdinand

Citing the examples of Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo, former England captain and Manchester United great Rio Ferdinand today said Indian football need a stand-out player to catch the country's fancy