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As a casual football fan I find it hard to stream some matches. I don't want to pay for another streaming service that I know I'm not going to use, but more and more of the matches aren't streamed on live tv...

I wouldn't mind if these attempts at total monopolistic control ended up demoting football to the status of a normal sport again, instead of a global religion.

> Football became popular because anybody with a TV set could watch the millionaires

Come on now. Football stadia were already full before the tv was even invented, and not all stadia were built with public money.

Is it now just another exploitative market? Yes. But let's not throw away the working-man's sport with the monopolistic-capitalist bathwater.