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Al Jazeera buys Premier League TV rights in Middle East

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 16, 2013 | Media

London, Reuters—Al Jazeera Sport has bought exclusive media rights to English Premier League soccer in the Middle East and North Africa for three years starting from next month, it said in a statement on Monday. Qatar-based Al Jazeera reached agreement with TV sports...

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Manchester United’s manager Alex Ferguson walks before their Champions League soccer match aganist Besiktas at the Inonu Stadium in Istanbul in this September 15, 2009 (REUTERS/Osman Orsal/Files)

Alex Ferguson bows out

by Sam Hardy | May 8, 2013 | World

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—When Alex Ferguson was appointed in 1986, Manchester United and English football in general was unrecognizable from what it is today. United—the embodiment of a new, commercialized and globalized English Premier League—was at the time...