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RUGBY WORLD CUP

Weekdays from 17.30 CAT

To many sports fans, the arrival of the year 2010 means that the count-down to football World Cup is well underway.

But that’s also true for rugby-lovers, with the oval ball’s showpiece tournament now just a matter of months away, in 2011.

To whet a few appetites, this month Classic recalls previous competitions’ greatest matches – including several from South Africa’s glory year of 1995.

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LEGENDS OF CRICKET

Weekdays from 20.00 CAT

Prime-time on Classic during the first fifteen days of February means a chance to pay tribute to the glorious game of cricket’s greatest-ever names.

It’s a sadly rare opportunity to see the likes of Barry Richards, Dennis Lillee and Malcolm Marshall at their brilliant best, with even rarer archive footage of W.G. Grace and Frank Worrell adding a further dash of spice.

A must-see season for cricket fans.

CURRIE CUP FINALS

Weekdays at 21.30 CAT

The Currie Cup Final is South African club rugby union’s answer to English football’s F.A. Cup Final; the one match of the season which the entire country stops to watch.

Sometimes, as the law of averages would suggest, these games promise more than they deliver, but, just occasionally, an instant classic is created.

It’s those matches which ESPN re-plays this month, including 1998’s all-action encounter between the Blue Bulls and Western Province.

PREMIER LEAGUE CLASSICS

Weekdays from 17.00 CAT

Admirers of English soccer are rewarded with hours of top-class action by Classic’s schedule this month;

with two different high-scoring matches featuring every week-night – before and after the cricket - this February.

Featured games, occasionally from rather unlikely teams, include Norwich’s ridiculously entertaining match with Middlesbrough from 2005,
existing happily alongside the likes of Manchester United v Arsenal.

CRICKET: ENGLAND v WEST INDIES

Weekdays from 18th Feb at 20.00 CAT

South African cricket lovers may well take a dim view of Kevin Pietersen’s decision to represent England...
but few, surely, can doubt the flamboyant batsman’s talent at the crease?

One of world cricket’s few genuine superstars was at his brilliant best for England during the summer of 2007 against the West Indies, and that spectacular series is recalled, in detail, on Classic, this month.

LIVERPOOL: TEAM OF THE 1980s

Weekdays from 17th Feb at 22.30 CAT

During the decade of the 1980s, Liverpool dominated English (and sometimes European) football to an extent which even Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United have failed to match, since.

The Reds were regularly captured in action by their local Granada TV franchise, and a full eight programmes of the team’s most memorable moments has been compiled from that original footage.

See soccer at its best, this month.

RINGSIDE: MUHAMMAD ALI

Sundays at 20.00 CAT

Last month, extraordinarily, Muhammad Ali – forever frozen in time as the fresh-faced fighter of the 1960s and ‘70s – reached the ripe old age of 68;

and, to celebrate, Classic shows again the three most action-packed compilations available of the star in his prime.

Enjoy again the sight of a sporting superstar in his pomp, as ESPN’s top American boxing experts offer viewers a ‘Ringside’ view.

VALENTINO ROSSI’S TOP 10 RACES

Weekdays at 17.30 CAT

He’s 31 years old, this month...
but ‘The Doctor’ already seems to have dominated his sport of Moto GP racing for more years than many might care to remember.

In fact, Rossi has only been riding the motor-cycle racing world’s mega-bikes since 2000, but has already racked up dozens of memorable performances.

Classic remembers his ten best, this month; from Donington in 2000 to Assen in ’07.

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