It’s bloody terrible isn’t it? I’m not even on the same continent as the team, and I still can’t stream it. The league sure does work hard to make sure there is limited to no access to the teams to watch. I’ll have to catch the highlights later on.
Maybe there’s a challenge to be contested here.
Is this practice in the publics best interest?
If you paid me £100 per game, I still wouldn’t go to watch a Sheff Utd or Nottingham Forest game.
Should football be run by the cartel known as the Premier League or by the FA & EFL?
It’s a restrictive practice. It’s censorship. It’s controlling what should be a free market.
The EU wasn’t all bad:
“They may also hold back innovation, put companies out of business and deny consumers access to a wide choice of goods and services at reasonable prices.”
If we want to watch Brackley v Scunthorpe on NLTV… then we should be able to.
Denying us the opportunity to follow our team isn’t going to encourage us to drive all the way to Sheffield or Nottingham to watch Premier League football.
I’ve absolutely no interest in that type of ‘fake football’.
There are many of us whom no longer live in the towns or even in the country of the clubs that we support.
There are many of us who are disabled and aren’t able to travel to watch our favoured team.
If I was deaf, then I wouldn’t be able to listen to the match commentary on the radio.
Doesn’t that breach the Equality Act of 2010 – discriminating against disabled people?
This restrictive practice is detrimental to the finances and very existence of small clubs like ours.
It cuts off a revenue stream and disassociates people from their team.
Maybe the matter requires the Competition and Markets Authority to peruse it?
