OPINION : It ’s expensive being a football fan . Even ignoring the toll of a season ticket , the cost of a subscription to the likes of Sky Sports and BT Sports is ludicrously high and needlessly exploitative .
It currently cost £ 22 a month on top of your standard Sky package to gain access to the football game - centric Sky Sports channels . And if you want to summate BT Sports to the mix so as to watch the Champions League and Saturday morning Premier League activity , you ’ll want to drop an extra £ 28 per month .
extra companies are look to take exception for a spell of the Premier League Proto-Indo European , with Amazon ’s Prime Video ( £ 8.99 per month ) pelt service now host 20 Premier League peer per season . And written report suggest Apple and Disney Plus are sniffing around , and could well join Amazon , BT and Sky in the bidding war for televised matches .
While competition is normally proficient for the consumer , it does n’t look like it ’s going to be beneficial for the single football game fan in this specific scenario . These companies can set the terms as high as they fancy , as they know fans will be desperate to watch their teams compete . And with a grow figure of subscription required to watch every exclusive televised match , the toll is spiraling out of control condition – if it had n’t already done so .
So when I get word the news ( reported byThe Mirror ) that the Premier League is regard setting up its own streaming table service , I could n’t be happy . By cut out the center - gentleman’s gentleman , such as BT and Sky , the Premier League would leave football fan to see every individual televised Premier League match via a single subscription .
It does confessedly concern me that the Premier League could set the price as high as they like with no bidding state of war or competitor from other broadcasters , but I extremely doubt it would ever amount to the total price of all the ask subscription fees we have to compensate right now .
conceive how much money the Premier League is worth , I ’m surprised by how long it ’s taken for it to embrace the digital age . The BT Sport app on thePS5is atrocious , and has taken months and calendar month for it to provide a smooth operation . I see a lot of potency in the Premier League having a right cyclosis service , allowing you to easy watch the highlights ( or even the full match ) of any former secret plan .
There ’s plenty of background to sum additional features too . I ’d bed to see the Premier League allow me to bring up stats mid - game , display multiple match simultaneously or even add integrating to its Fantasy Football app .
Must be a Tv deal up for negotiation soon 😂 https://t.co/wU6txGdzG2
It ’s of form potential that the Premier League is n’t serious about produce its own streaming service . AsGary Neville points out , it could well be just a ploy to add an extra incentive for the likes of BT and Sky Sports to tender even higher in the next vendue , with the current deal set to expire at the oddment of the 2024 - 25 season .
The only people that lose out are the head honchos of BT and Sky , and since they ’ve been work fans with high subscription fees for the past few decennium , it ’s difficult to have much sympathy . Jog on .
