Just been doing some thinking and enquiring with Virgin.
If you add the Sky sports pack onto your account, you can take it off after 30days and re add it when you want.
Now as long as you don’t mind watching Europe & Silverstone on the Beeb you can get away with having the Sky sports pack for 7 months totalling (£22.50 * 7) £157.50
Now admittedly this still is a fair bit of money but it is a lot less than £363 for a new 12 month subscription to Sky HD.