Fans have been unable to stream Saturday 3pm kick-offs since the 1960s
Amid rumoured interest from streaming services to lift the 60-year-old Saturday 3pm blackout rule, which forbids football matches from being televised at that time, Lincoln City fans have been voicing concerns that the plans could harm the English football pyramid beyond repair.
It dates back to the 1960s and was designed to encourage fans to attend matches in person, and there are concerns that attendance figures would be drastically affected if the rule was scrapped moving forwards. “Lifting the blackout would be terrible for the English game, and have long-lasting effects from which many clubs would not recover.
He said: “Watch the gates fall as fans stay at home to watch rather than go to the game, would kill some clubs off, especially those with smaller gates. The whole idea of the 3pm blackout was to encourage fans to watch the game in person and contribute some money on the gate to the club to keep them afloat, absolutely shocking from the EFL.”
Daniel Curtis said it would benefit teams on long away trips that some fans just cannot make, stating: “We have a lot of distance to travel in our league, personally I’m not prepared to travel to somewhere like Portsmouth, so I would love the opportunity to watch the team play on occasions like that.”
Andy Townsend said the idea works in theory, but assurances would have to be made that all football clubs would benefit from the streaming of games, rather than the companies offering the service and the clubs at the top of the game.
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