From a US bar to the lower leagues, an illegal streamer to a stickler for the rules, we view the UK's 3pm blackout from across football
took to the pitch on Saturday, it was the first time in 18 years that the previous season’s top four teams had all playedThose teams’ games formed part of an unusual glut of six fixtures at that time, with just one Premier League fixture on Sunday . The thing is, though, unless you were one of the lucky ones with a ticket, if you live in the UK you could not watch any of those six Saturday matches live. Well not legally, anyway.
“I work eight days a week,” he jokes about a busy schedule that takes him around the country. “Most Saturdays I work in the morning and then try to make the effort to come here in the afternoon for a home game. That’s my time.” The loudest section of West Stand on Saturday sees a collection of teenage boys go through a hymn book of fan chants such as “SCFC, Red and White Army” and spend half-time talking about their plans for Wrexham away rather than the goings on at Old Trafford or Molineux . On more than one occasion, 10 boys break into a rendition of Dirty Old Town by The Pogues, which has become the club anthem.
“It’s bullsh*t,” he says of the rule. “I’m paying for three TV subscriptions and I still can’t watch my team legally.”John is an Arsenal fan. He says he would happily pay for some kind of streaming season ticket. The blackout, he argues, is outdated. “Most Premier League games sell out well in advance,” he says. “When it’s a sellout, they should televise it. It’s not stopping people going to the matches.”has places to be, but not before making a quick pact with John.
From 1973 to 2014, the NFL maintained a blackout policy that stated a home game could not be televised in the team’s local market if 85 per cent of the tickets were not sold out 72 hours before kick-off. This policy has been suspended since 2015 and is up for review year-to-year. For West, who works in the healthcare field, the UK’s 3pm blackout shows a lack of consideration for people who struggle to attend events in public.
The media rights to live Premier League games are shared between Amazon Prime Video, Sky Sports and TNT Sports in the UK. A subscription to all three services costs fans more than £70 a month but that only gives fans access to 200 of the season’s 380 Premier League games, with the other fixtures reserved for the traditional Saturday afternoon slot.
He does not use illegal streams. It is not that he is afraid of getting a letter through the post. “I don’t think that would deter me,” he says.
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