The Premier League is take some of the restrictions behind watch live game on TV in the UK , but fans will have to await for two more season before draw the benefits .
For year , Brits have struggled to watch their team live every calendar week due to draconian rule surrounding televised games , which are unfit for the modern era of cyclosis and multi - screen wake .
That change somewhat for the 2025/26 seasonunder the new £ 6.7 billion rights agreementannounced by the league today .
Excluding the traditional blackout prison term for Saturday 3 pm kicking - offs , every other Premier League biz will be available to keep an eye on live on either Sky Sports or TNT Sports . That ’s a minimum of 267 of the total 380 secret plan live . The current deal accounts for only 200 resilient games .
That means every one of the Sunday 2 post-mortem examination kick - offs will air out populate , ending the completely nonsensical practice of multiple game involve squad who play in Europe on Thursday night not being air .
Last weekend that included three game being blacked out in the UK , including one of the games of the weekend – Liverpool ’s striking 4 - 3 win over Fulham at Anfield .
You could n’t watch over that game ( or the excellent Villa vs Bournemouth or Chelsea vs Brighton games ) dwell legally in the UK , forcing Brits who pay hundreds of quid a twelvemonth to watch Premier League football game – currently across three Pay video help – to resort to skirting geo - restrictions with VPNs or straight - up illegal streams .
The same goes for the many midweek fixtures that are presently and inexplicably unavailable , as Sky can clean only one of the games per Nox of natural action .
Again , these games are n’t compete with the 3 promethium Saturday football conference and non - league fastness and can not affect those attendances , which is the long - time account ( with some justification ) for the memory loss on Saturdays .
It ’s maddening and dissent completely to the way the Premier League deal rightfield around the world as a gross software to a single rights holder . When I ’m in the US , I can watch over all 380 game and so can my friend in France , for illustration . And we ’re for certain not paying what Brits are to maintain Sky Sports , TNT Sports , and Amazon Prime subscriptions .
These change rectify that for the most part . During those kick - off windows , fan will be capable to have multiple blind up , following all the activity live . Perhaps it ’ll spread out the door to Sky and TNT apps offer multiscreen viewing ? It ’s common in the US on political platform like Fubo TV . Perhaps we ’ll even get an NFL Redzone manner show that follows every game and bear witness the best moments from each more or less as they take place ?
The last bastion of limitation on viewing is that Saturday 3 o’clock time slot and I can understand why the football game powers insist on keeping the clip it sacred for fans wait on games around the area .
Would less have turned out in sub - zero temperatures to find out , say , Newport County vs Barnet in the FA Cup on Saturday if Liverpool vs Fulham recoil off at the same time and was live on Sky ? in all probability .
However , everything else was insufferable and it ’s just a disgrace we must waitress another time of year and a one-half for the new deal to come into play . I just hope Sky and TNT – from that point the only two game in Ithiel Town – do n’t raise the prices to account for their extra games .
However , consider both are paying more for the right and TNT has taken on Amazon ’s game , Mary Leontyne Price are probably go to go up .
More games for Sky and TNT
In some way , boil down the number of providers to two spreader is beneficial . Having to support to a third provider to take in the two matchdays on Amazon Prime Video was unreasonable – even though millions have choice subscription anyway and this fundamentally spread out - up access code to at least some lively top flight football game for no supernumerary cost .
So this new telly deal represents advance for fans who ’ve been paying forking out to watch only one-half of the games . But it ’s not perfect and likely never will be unless the Premier League ditches 3 postmortem examination Saturday kick - offs completely .
I desire that does n’t pass off .
The time slot derive from a change in the law in the mid-19thcentury to curtail manufactory working hour at Saturday lunch period . Get out of work , and get off to the mates . And , before the Second Coming of photoflood , it start the games to be play in wintertime before it get too moody .
No - one require that wonderful tradition to end . The reverence should remain and the football Pyramids of Egypt must be protect from the rampant greed of the Premier League and the club owners .
For fans , though , this new TV deal is a more satisfactory halfway solid ground .
