Amazon’s coverage of games this week may be the prelude to much bigger things ahead.
They look to become a big player in future deals with clubs and for many fans that will be a good the organisation hold one big advantage over Sky and indeed BT of course.
For a long time many fans have been crying out for the clubs to take control of rights themselves to broadcast their own team’s game and sell on line or TV season tickets.
Frankly I have little or no interest in any club outside of West Ham and the sameĀ applies to fans across the land whoever they support.
Although there may be some who believe crowds andĀ atmosphere will fall should we reach a stage where all games are streamed, frankly as part of the entertainment industry, it seems certain to happen sooner or later.
It’s happened with films and music – Netflix, various apps and Spotify – and personally I can’t see football being able to resist it for much longer. Indeed Amazon has paved the way.
It remains illegal to provide or watch pirate streams but just like the movie and music industries before them I’m not sure football will be able to hold out for much longer and official streaming looks to be on the way.
If clubs can get the right sort of deals it will surely happen.
Interesting times ahead!
I stream all westham games for free in hd so idont see what the fuss is about,i live in thailand
The fuss is that those streams in Britain are illegal for PL football but not abroad
I personally think the day when we can watch all the games through official streaming will be the death knell of football.Although there will still be the hard core of supporters who will still want to go to games, i think we will we end up half filled stadiums.
As a hammers fan who lives in Stoke on Trent I would love to pay for a season ticket to stream every match but I would still go to as many live matches as I possibly could because nothing beats actually being there, it would be the best of both worlds for me