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Originally posted by anton
Forget the offical site, check out the SBS website at... http://www.theworldgame.com.au/home/
Their is a great wall chart outlining groups, matches, and most importantly SBS's scheduled times for the games...
www.theworldgame.com.au/worldcup/2006WC_WallChart.pdf
Which reminds me, what nationality is Les Murry?
Some restless sleepless nights ahead
Les Murray
Hungarian born Les developed his love of football after emigrating to Australia as a refugee in 1957. Watching a replay of the classic 1960 European Cup Final, Les' enthusiasm for the world game was launched and hasn't waned since.
Following moderate success as a semi-pro player, Les returned to Europe to gain a closer association with the sport in countries where it is more a religion than a game. Yet he also found time to indulge in his second love - rock and roll - as the lead singer in a very hip ensemble, known as 'The Rubber Band', during the 1970s.
Les Murray has been immortalised by Melbourne-based alternative band TISM with the hit single What Nationality is Les Murray? which appears on their album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, which went on to win Best Alternative Album at the 1995 ARIA music awards and achieved gold status in sales.
Les has been a journalist since 1971. He trained with the ABC for four years before working for two years as a newspaper journalist in various publications on London's Fleet Street. He began his television sports career as a football commentator with Channel 10 in 1977 and later, Channel 7 in Canberra.
Les has been with SBS since its inception in 1980 starting as a Hungarian sub-titler. He became well known beyond SBS as presenter and producer of SBS football programs. Les has been directly involved in all the major events covered by SBS Sport, including the World Cup football tournaments.
In his years with SBS he has played a major role in developing the distinctiveness of sport programming on the network, and was executive producer of all of SBS' major football broadcasts.
Since the very beginning of SBS, Les Murray played a prominent role in enhancing the profile of football in Australia. In one of the few countries where the sport is not the national game, football - thanks to saturation prime-time exposure on SBS, has been firmly put on the agenda of Australian sporting culture. It was in fact Les Murray who coined the term the world game, which has since become common usage in references to football.
Internationally respected, Les was invited by FIFA to present a paper on television's role in football at the 1998 World Football Expo in Singapore. In 1999 he was also asked by the United Nations to take part in the World Television Forum while in the same year the influential French sports daily, L'Equipe, named him one of Sydney's ten most influential people in sport. Since 2004 Les has served on FIFA's Committee for Ethics and Fair Play.
Les' many career highlights at SBS include anchoring the network's exclusive 1998 FIFA World Cup coverage from France, the 1994 FIFA World Cup coverage from the USA; the 1990 FIFA World Cup from Italy; the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals from Mexico; the 2002 World cup finals in Korea/Japan; the Young Socceroos' brave efforts in the 1991 World Youth Championship in Portugal; the 1993 World Youth Championship in Australia and anchor of the network's exclusive coverage of Euro '96.
Les Murray was appointed Head of Sport in February 1996 bringing a wealth of experience and commitment to the network's sport programming.
