Fans have been left furious by the Premier League’s latest statement on watching matches on TV, which was issued on Friday afternoon.
So far, the Premier League have been showing every match on television during the first month of the 2020/21 season, and the last few months of the 2019/20 season.
The 3rd of October was supposed to see fans in the stands in test events, however with the number of coronavirus cases on the rise, those were abandoned.
The Premier League has announced that all non-televised fixtures until the end of October will now be made available live on pay-per-view in the UK.
The 20 clubs came to the interim decision after a meeting on Friday in order to “enable all fans to continue to watch their teams live”. Even Gary Neville is left raging with the decision.

LEAGUE STATEMENT:
The Premier League today confirmed all fixtures until the end of October will continue to be made available for fans to watch live in the United Kingdom.
Under these new arrangements, the current live match selections will remain in place and will be broadcast as normal.
In addition, the five matches per round not already selected will be made available to supporters on a pay-per-view basis, accessed via BT Sport Box Office and Sky Sports Box Office platforms.
Clubs today agreed this interim solution to enable all fans to continue to watch their teams live.
The Premier League has worked closely with Sky Sports and BT Sport to provide this arrangement and is grateful for their support.
The agreement will be regularly reviewed in consultation with clubs and in line with any decisions made by Government regarding the return of spectators to stadiums.
Football is not the same without supporters at matches. The Premier League and our clubs remain committed to the safe return of fans as soon as possible.
An updated broadcast list of matches will be announced later today. Of course we will have all of that so been sure to look in later.
As mentioned, fans have been left furious by the Premier League’s latest statement on watching matches on TV…
This is a really bad move by the @premierleague to charge £14.95 for single matches that have been shown free for 6 months !
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) October 9, 2020
£29.90 to watch Chelsea vs Southampton & Burnley vs Chelsea on Top of Sky Sports & BT Sport a Month. ABSOLUTE JOKE.
Guarantee for the November Fixtures you’ll pick the big games for Box Office and further take advantage of fans.
— CFCDaily (@CFCDaily) October 9, 2020
Similar to NFL pass, £150 a year, every single game and so much other content. Or you could watch 10 premier league games not deemed worthy to be televised in the first place…
— Sjt (@SimonEFC) October 9, 2020
Well done premier league, only going to be more illegal streams now
— Rohan Gulliver (@gulliver_rohan) October 9, 2020
Well done premier league, only going to be more illegal streams now
— Rohan Gulliver (@gulliver_rohan) October 9, 2020
£15 for a game and you wonder why people stream games illegally! Wan*ers!
Richard masters & Gary Hoffman have gained more bad publicity in 10 month than the PL ever have in the last decade.
Sack masters and Hoffman!
— ?? JordXnT ?? (@JxrdanT97) October 9, 2020
15 per pound per month and get all the games I don’t mind and make deals with uefa for 5 extra pound get ucl games. Much better then paying for bt and sky
— abdul (@abdul_180) October 9, 2020
£15 per game? Really? This will drive more fans to look for illegal streams. I will certainly not be paying that price to watch one game. An appalling decision from a completely tone deaf appalling organisation.
— Colin Bestford (@Colin_B_1970) October 9, 2020
Honestly just put the whole lot on Prime Video… they’ve shown from Christmas day and New Years last season they can handle 5 matches at once.
— Adam Cohen (@realadammcohen) October 9, 2020
£15 PER GAME? That is absolutely shocking.
— LDN (@LDNFootbalI) October 9, 2020
Init. Paying £10 a week to watch Hull play. Overall spent over £100 to watch my team play football ?
— Joe??? (@JoPSmith25) October 9, 2020
Absolute disgrace. Robbing people.
— Mod (@CFCMod_) October 9, 2020

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