Last but not least: Fair play in Swiss

 There was excitement among the loyal supporters of FC Basel this week: it was feared that the Champions League match against the Portuguese team Vitória Guimarães would not be shown on Swiss screens on Wednesday evening. This would have been a sacrifice to the Olympic gods, as SRG wanted to provide Olympic fans with coverage - apart from the fact that a "horrendous price" was apparently demanded for the broadcast of the Champions League match. In addition to the Bebbi fans, some media outlets also took up arms against this non-broadcast, with the Basler Zeitung newspaper campaigning for the broadcast under the title "unbearable riders of principles". And the local broadcaster Telebasel got involved: it also entered into negotiations with the Portuguese rights holder. After some back and forth between SF, Telebasel, FCB and the rights holders - which did not always run entirely smoothly, as can be read between the lines of a Telebasel press release - the redeeming news came on Wednesday: the match can be shown on Telebasel, TSI and SF. On Telebasel the entire match, on SF only the second half. The Leutschenbach crew had thought of both the Olympic enthusiasts and the football fans. And cut the evening in two to give everyone the information they wanted. There's nothing like a good Swiss compromise - even if a football half-time falls by the wayside.