At the moment we have central bargaining all clubs together. This is not the case in every territory and in every sport. The rights are like gold dust and worth a huge amount. To suggest they would consider £3 a game massively under sells the valuable rights. You would be looking at at least double (like a daily Now TV pass) but possibly more as you would be watching your club.

Sadly streams are illegal and as security around them gets tightee it will be harder to get decent ones.

There are too many stakeholders involved in football to make this viable. You'd have to have an agreement from The FA, The Premier League, The Clubs, Sky, The internation broadcast partners etc... streaming on a per game basis would cost a lot more than £5 I reckon anyway

The reality is, a very small percentage of people who watch premier league football, stream games currently. Not everyone is as tech savvy as some users of this site.

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I wonder how many people stream games in the UK every week?…Lets conservatively say for the top 2 leagues there are average 5,000 people streaming their clubs game every time they play (10k a game).

Then let’s make the following assumptions:

• Each round of fixtures sees 22 games (10x Prem and 12 x Championship)

• Each Season sees 84 rounds (38 x Prem and 46 x Championship)

• 22 games x 84 times a season = 1,848 games in the top two divisions to watch

• 10,000 avg viewers x 1848 games = 18.5m people willing to stream in a season

Now, if you charged each of those at the following rates, you get:

£3 a game = £55.5m
£5 a game = £92.5m
£10 a game = £185m

Now if you consider that for clubs like Man U, City, Newcastle etc the avg figures are likely to be far higher than you can start seeing the numbers stacking up.

Also, they already have the OB facilities at the games, hence the streams being available for watching illegally so there wouldn’t be any extra costs involved for the provider….simply flick a switch to allow it to be broadcast in the UK at the same time and its easy money.

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NFL rules require the home team to sell out before the game can be televised in the home team's market. If your team is on the road, it can be shown in your home market regardless. This is possible due to the geographic separation of TV markets, in that what I see in Houston is different even to Dallas, let alone New York or LA. Not so in the UK, where everyone tends to get the same broadcast content, so there is no demarcation between what the home and away fans see.

There is no NFL subscription service that bypasses these local restrictions.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

There has got to be money to be made by organising the streaming. The TV corporations have recognised this by offering games on the Now TV Passes. They know that people watch on free streams or paid for streams where higher quality transmissions are offered. The mere fact that they are offering the passes shows that they are already trying to compete with streaming.
I am sure that they will be working in the background on how they can get their greedy hands on the the paid for streaming subs.
I guess another way is for the Clubs themselves broadcasting their matches and charging members to watch them. I guess the Premier League has the rights to the broadcasts but it could be a way.
Supporters like me who live a long way from the club and only stream football matches involving Palace would much sooner pay the Club rather than a streamer or TV company and would be happy to do so to support the club.

That could work. It would open up streaming to those who aren't savvy/shifty enough to mask their location and stream illegally.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.