Good news for Sports Stat members...

Sky Sports has signed a new deal for exclusive live coverage of La Liga for the next three seasons.

The new deal for Spain's top league covers the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons and Sky Sports will broadcast at least two live matches from each weekend of the season.

The coverage begins this Saturday with Real Madrid v Deportivo from 7.00pm on Sky Sports 2, followed by two newly promoted sides; Real Zaragoza v Tenerife, at 9.00pm.

Sunday's live game will be Valencia v Sevilla from 6pm on Sky Sports 2, while champions Barcelona v Sporting Gijon is available on Bank Holiday Monday from 8pm on Sky Sports 1 (the first half is available via the red button).

Revista de La Liga, Sky Sports' weekly Spanish football magazine show, also returns on Tuesday September 1 at 5.30pm on Sky Sports1.

Announcing the deal, Barney Francis, Sky Sports Managing Director said: "We are delighted to continue our long association with the best in Spanish football - it's now 13 years since Sky Sports viewers first enjoyed the glamour of La Liga.

"With Ronaldo and Kaka joining Real Madrid, the challenge for Barcelona's treble winners will be intense and should provide more compulsive viewing."

Sky Sports Spanish football expert Gerry Armstrong added: "Of course it'll be fascinating to see Ronaldo and Kaka lead the challenge with Real Madrid, but we all saw just how good Barcelona were last season and with Ibrahimovic leading the line they can only get better.

"Also, watch out for Atletico Madrid with 'Kun' Aguero and Diego Forlan, and Villareal, without the pressure of the Champions League, also have some very talented players."

Also on Sky Sports...

The best South American talent in World Cup qualifiers including Argentina v Brazil - the third of three CONMEBAL Group qualifiers live on Saturday 5 September - following Peru v Uruguay and Paraguay v Bolivia from 9.30pm on Sky Sports 1.

Other live football on Sky Sports for the 2009-10 season includes: 92 live matches from the Barclays Premier League; 30 live matches from the Clydesdale Bank Premier League; live ties from the Carling Cup and the Scottish Cup; live matches from Northern Ireland's IFA Premiership and live international football, including crucial home World Cup Qualifiers for Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Freddie LAY - Take some profits

Our lay of Freddie (here) has generated a profit potential and our advice is to now green up.

We would normally wait a bit longer, however with the occasional negatives surrounding second fav Siavash (and a possible twist that we've expanded on below) it's quite possible that Freddie could shorten simply on the basis of market weakness

Freddie has always been too short in the market - HOWEVER, traders should guard themselves against an Ace that Freddie has up his sleeve. Well, it's more a pair of aces actually

Where will the winners money go? - Here is our take on this

Sophie - Cosmetic surgery. This girl is definietly no Kate whom we landed a touch with many moons ago and the GBP won't be voting for her on the basis of paying of her existing cosmetic surgery debt, creating more cosmetic surgery debt and yet more spending sprees on designer clothes.

Siavash - Who knows. This party organiser has often bragged about what money he has but as yet he hasn't stated that he's going to spend the money on a 'good story'

Charlie - With his mother in a coma, Charlie has already stated that he intends to fund his mothers' care. A good story, but has he played his ace to early? will he get the reputation that he's 'using' his mothers plight to win BB10

Freddie - No news as yet. But, given the fact that he is minted, he simply doesn't need the money. I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed at length on the various BB10 forums and given the way he has played the game so far, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he played his 'pair' late in the game with a 100K is going to charity

If he were to say the sentence "it has always been my intention to donate the money to XYZ" (preferably children's charity) then he would trade sub 2.0

We're trading out of our situation oin Freddie, by taking some of the 3.75 that's available on betfair right now - but what this space for further updates

PREVIOUS ADVICE - Lay Freddie to Lose 2% of your bank @ 3.00
ADVICE - 1% Freddie to win BB10 @ 3.75

This bet makes Freddie a green for 0.75% with all the other contestants 0.00 - in other words a free bet on Freddie