Cristiano Ronaldo causes anguish for UK's newest sports broadcaster

Eleven Sports’ last-minute decision to respect blackout means viewers in the UK won’t see the Portuguese superstar’s first 15 minutes of competitive action with Juventus, writes David Hellier
 
An upstart sports channel is lobbying English soccer authorities to overturn a ban on Saturday afternoon live match broadcasts, arguing it no longer works in a world of on-demand video and smartphone streaming.
 
Executives at Eleven Sports debated for weeks whether to defy the ban and show the world’s top soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo making his debut in the Italian league this weekend, but they pulled back at the last