Bangkok--22 Nov--Total Quality PR From tomorrow, soccer fans across Asia can expect in-depth perspectives from highly-respected ESPN STAR Sports (Ch.39, 65 True Visions) presenter John Dykes as Asia’s No.1 sports broadcaster brings back new seasons of Tiger Football Up Close and First Edition Presented by Profitable Plots. Get up close and personal with English Premier League personalities in Tiger Football Up Close and get the inside look on their careers, personal lives and life in Premiership. Join respected football presenter John Dykes every Monday in exclusive one-on-one interviews with some of the biggest names from the world’s most popular football league. Find out why Sven Goran Eriksson thinks the media is important despite the intrusion on his personal life, why Rafael Benitez persists with his rotation policy and the secret behind Harry Redknapp’s knack for building great teams on a shoestring budget. Tiger Football Up Close is broadcast every Monday on ESPN at 2000pm and will run for the next eleven weeks. Rumours fly fast and furious in the Premiership and one can’t always believe what one reads in the newspapers — or should you? First Edition Presented by Profitable Plots is a weekly look at what the newspapers are saying about the football scene — the latest news, transfers, speculation and gossip. Every Friday, John Dykes is joined by SKY Sports anchor Richard Keys and experts on continental European football to analyse and dissect football as reported by the media, both traditional and new. Primarily based on football news from English newspapers, First Edition Presented by Profitable Plots also takes a look at how Asian publications are reporting on the English football scene. Keys is a veteran anchor on one of Britain’s biggest football programmes for SKY Sports. The new season of First Edition Presented by Profitable Plots starts on Friday, November 23, 2000pm on ESPN. The new seasons of Tiger Football Up Close and First Edition Presented by Profitable Plots add to ESPN STAR Sports’ already-stellar list of original football programming. ESPN STAR Sports produces close to 500 hours of original football programming a year, including programmes like Football Focus, Nokia Football Crazy, Football Forecast, Goals and Football Extra, catering to a wide range of audiences from the serious football fan to the armchair spectator.Schedule for Tiger Football Up CloseEvery Monday, 2000pmSven Goran Eriksson 26 NovJason McAteer 3 DecFrank Stapleton 10 DecBrian McBride 17 DecTim Cahill 24 DecMartin Tyler 31 DecRafa Benitez 7 JanHarry Redknapp 14 JanRonnie Whelan 21 JanGraham Poll 28 JanJamie Carragher 4 Feb