Why is figuring out where to watch the Premier League every season more confusing than the actual matches?

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MeetingGunner7330@reddit

Literally just had this discussion in one of the Arsenal subreddits. Get a VPN - set it to Ukraine - sign up for Setanta Sports (costs £1.85 a month or £18.51 a year) and you get all of the prem games. 3pm kick offs, carabao cup, i believe FA Cup, along with the occasional championship game and Bundesliga. If it had Champions League, then it would be perfect. But it’s all in English, don’t need a foreign address or debit card, has English commentary, it’s basically as close to perfect as you can get.

I also watch UFC but don’t like having to wake up early in the morning, so I just go to sleep like normal and then watch the entire main card in the morning when I wake up. I honestly cannot recommend it enough. Only downside is you have to watch it on a phone or laptop as it recognises you’re not actually in Ukraine if you try to ping it to your tv

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jonty_beeftree@reddit

In the last month, I keep getting error messages. Have you got the same? Apparently they have added something which sees you are on a vpn.

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MeetingGunner7330@reddit

Yeah during the game today it would cut out randomly and I would have to reload it. I hope they haven’t cracked down on it because it’s really refreshing to watch all the prem games and not have to listen to Gary Neville and the sky lot

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South_Leek_5730@reddit

So I had this a few years back as I subscribed to US networks using a smartdns service. You need a firestick and then sideload the app because the region of the firestick (or TV) won't let you install apps for other countries. Only downside is having to manually update. You could always just cast it to the firestick or TV.

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Remote_Atmosphere993@reddit

Why wouldn't you just set the vpn on your TV to Ukraine?

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MeetingGunner7330@reddit

I don’t know if you would be able to access Setanta via a tv app so I guess you could set the VPN on your tv to Ukraine, but then I imagine you would have to use your TV’s internet browser to try and access the website and then find the game you want which can feel a bit clunky. A few more steps but not impossible I guess. I would personally just load it on my laptop and then plug it into my tv via a HDMI if I wanted to watch it on the big screen

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AcceptableCustomer89@reddit

Must be a setanta TV app, surely

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MeetingGunner7330@reddit

I don’t know if the VPN would be enough to fool the TV’s App Store and allow you access foreign apps. Must be some way as a lot of the Asian and Indian communities install apps on their TV’s that allow them to access content from their home countries

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taknyos@reddit

Not sure about Setanta, but I do this with Disney+ through India (it also has all PL games).

I have a firestick with a VPN on it and you can load any android app on it, there happens to be an android tv app for the service I use, it's easy to put onto a firestick.

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WarthogEmergency2658@reddit

Ich kann dir ein Jahresabonnement für „setanta sports“ zum halben Preis anbieten. Meine Telegram-ID lautet @ MrCoqueto. Du kannst mir auch hier eine interne Nachricht hinterlassen.

I can offer you an annual subscription to “setanta sports” at half price. My Telegram is @ MrCoqueto. You can send me a private message here.

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AJMurphy_1986@reddit

All in the same place for me.......

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dash1004@reddit

You can find better alternatives to the greedy Sky. Dodgy Box is the way to go, if you don’t have one, google GoBuyIP-TV and thank me later.

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TheShakyHandsMan@reddit

I think they’re in the same place as mine.

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OutrageousRhubarb853@reddit

*pullsouttelescope.gif

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HelloRV3991@reddit

🔥

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TheShakyHandsMan@reddit

🪵

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lostrandomdude@reddit

I have a few places, but I can see all the matches in all of these places

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smushs88@reddit

Hello fellow sailors….

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Swiss91@reddit

I find the best source for what channel a match is going to be on is SkyBet.

Think that says more about me though…

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slimboyslim9@reddit

The Premier League app… displays it right there.

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TokuTheGreatCorso@reddit

learn to sail the seven seas my friend

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lmao--dead@reddit

I trust TvAxA because performance stays consistent across repeated sessions

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Medium-Lion1099@reddit

Switching between content on TvAxA feels fast and natural without delays

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Charming-Objective14@reddit

Have you not heard football isn't about the game anymore it's about how much money they can make.

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Salaried_Zebra@reddit

Welcome to the 21st century. That's all anything is about now.

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Biggeordiegeek@reddit

I just don’t bother anymore

The money required to watch the games is stupid now, and investigating the dodgy devices gave me pause for thought when I examined what one was trying to do in a controlled air gapped environment, and its behaviour was not something I would want to introduce into my home given the unsolicited network activity and they data it was trying to harvest

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Salaried_Zebra@reddit

Can you elaborate further on what the devices were doing?

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daddywookie@reddit

Similar here. All the people saying just get a dodgy stick and I'm wondering what on earth that device is doing to my local network and who is getting my data.

I've compromised on a VPN and a browser used only for this purpose with no accounts present.

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baxty23@reddit

My team plays in the same stadium all the time, it’s not difficult to find, it doesn’t move.

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Time-Caterpillar4103@reddit

I remember when people said BT adding competition would be great for the consumer. Just meant more than one bill.

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Redangle11@reddit

I worked with a guy that was instrumental in the BT sky case, he believed it was in the consumer interest for years, but now accepts that there can be benevolent monopolies and the only people that benefited were the TV folk and the leagues.

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Entfly@reddit

I disagree, competition is great.

Competition doesn't work when you share the matches.

Give Sky every PL match. Also give BT every PL match. Also give Amazon every PL match.

That's actual competition.

You don't go, oh the supermarket sector has competition with Tesco selling bacon, Asda selling milk, Sainsbury's selling bread and so on.

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Educational-Angle717@reddit

Just go to the pub - makes life much simpler.

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UnusualProcess9617@reddit

Depend son the pub obviously.

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Mysterious-Sock39@reddit

No , 3pm kickoff

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5ubredhit@reddit

It doesn’t if it’s a 3pm kick-off on Saturday.

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Educational-Angle717@reddit

Well 3pms aren’t on anyway are they. Agree that is a right pain but not much you can do.

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5ubredhit@reddit

Not in the U.K. but a lot of other countries show them and it’s fairly easy to stream. Saves needing to find out who’s showing what if you’re always going to the same place to stream. But I appreciate it’s not for everyone.

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dash1004@reddit

Do your homework before posting. All across the internet, you can find better alternatives to the greedy Sky. Dodgy Box is the way to go, if you don’t have one, google GoBuyIP-TV and thank me later.

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Ok_Staff_1193@reddit

Exactly.. I use LimeTVLive you can google much cheaper than Sky works well for me.

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sme11yc0ck@reddit

That's the way.

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LJA0611@reddit

But it’s not really confusing though is it?

For years and years matches have either been on sky or BT/TNT (apart from few Amazon prime weeks). And they have generally kept the same kick off slots.

There are alternative ways of watching everything of course.

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W35TH4M@reddit

To make it even easier Amazon haven’t even had the rights anymore as of this season

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W35TH4M@reddit

There are literally just two options and it’s not hard to check which of the two it’s on

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Posluszny@reddit

It hasn't changed for years now?

It's been Sky and BT/TNT for 10 years with a sprinkling of Amazon prime

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W35TH4M@reddit

Prime don’t even have the rights anymore as of this season

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Skeletime@reddit

TNT will be leaving Discovery soon and joining HBO Max. Don't think it'll really change much when watching on TV but if going through an app then it'll be HBO rather than Discovery+.

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TentativeGosling@reddit

Didn't Discovery show a match this year as well?

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Posluszny@reddit

Discovery is the same as BT/TNT

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Mysterious-Sock39@reddit

IPTV no issues for me

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regulator202@reddit

Definitely wouldn't pay for it all, wouldn't even pay for a stick. You can stream every game online and have been able to for years. Watch on any device with an internet browser, no money necessary

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o_sooperstar_o@reddit

If the games are being shown in the uk, then the premier league website literally shows the broadcaster in the upcoming fixtures.

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quantum-fluxer@reddit

Sky and TNT, one or two games per season on Amazon prime.

Can you count to 3? What exactly can you not figure out? Do you know what Google is? How does it take you more than 90 minutes to compare them? Which channel did you not know even existed? Are you mentally handicapped in some way?

So many questions..

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Still-Bill2827@reddit

Live-footballontv.co.uj

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ResplendentBear@reddit

I see this all the time on r/Britishproblems and I just don't get it at all. It seems like deliberate incompetence.

The PL is always mostly on Sky and one other channel which has been Setanta/BT/TNT. Twice a year it's on Amazon, but that even stops after this year.

CL has been on BT/TNT for over a decade.

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