The best programming on the telebox this weekend

Need something to watch that sour post-Euro 2008 qualifying taste out of your mouth? How about a bumper weekend of sport, featuring a main course of good ol’ foreign people playing football, with lashings of tough men with deformed ears on the side? Dig in…

FRIDAY

Rugby Union
Worcester/ Sale (Sky Sports 1, 8pm)

SATURDAY

Premier League
Newcastle Utd/ Liverpool (Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports HD1, 12.45pm)
Derby County/ Chelsea (Setanta Sports 1, 5.15pm)

La Liga
Barcelona/ Recreativo (Sky Sports 3, 7pm)
Murcia/ Real Madrid La Liga (Sky Sports 3, 9pm)

Rugby Union
Leeds/ Leicester (Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports HD2, 2.45pm)

SUNDAY

Premier League
West Ham Utd/ Tottenham (Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports HD1 ,1.30pm)
Fulham/ Blackburn Rovers (Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports HD1, 4pm)

La Liga
Racing Santander/ Valencia (Sky Sports 1, 7pm)
Real Zaragoza/ Getafe La Liga (Sky Sports 1, 8pm)