Here is another email from Paul:
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it: it was good to be back, even though the Calderon is my least favourite ground.- Basically you are really high up in a small (very hot) cabin with a wobbly table - We only had an 8 inch screen for replays, which coupled with the (almost invisible blue numbers on the At Mad shirts meant the players were so hard to distinguish..)
Still i think it went off OK and as always it's great fun, just a shame there is a week off for international games.
Talking about RMTV, Sid and I spent the month of June commentating on loads of old RM games (42!!!) for them.We energed from the studio pale as ghosts.
We also did a lot of overdubs for already recorded programmes. It is not top quality material, but i suppose if you are a RM fan it's what you want to see.
As far as satillite coverage, i think it is avavilable of the Astra and Hispasat satillites, but you probably know more about that than i do.
Looking ahead to the season, we may do UEFA Cup, but that may be curtailed a bit by the Euroleague basketball, but they say no Copa del Rey.
Nevertheless, as it is a World Cup year, there are about 5 or 6 midweek league games becaue the season is a bit shorter.
So far so good, after one game Athletic Bilbao top of the table (personally, I'd end the season now so we could be Champions!!!!)
One final thing, Robinho looks very good cheers PAUL