Premiership sets Setanta deadline!

The English Premier League has told Setanta that if it does not pay the money it owes by Friday, 19 June, it will lose its games for next season.

It has threatened to sell the rights to the 46 live matches that Setanta is supposed to be showing in the 2009/2010 season to the highest bidder.

Setanta has been struggling to make its payments to the sporting bodies from which it buys sporting rights.

There were reports of a Monday deadline for payments to the Premier League.

BBC NEWS REPORT.