Early season ratings for live Premier League matches on Sky Sports are down by 19% . Have you stopped tuning in or are you just not paying for the pleasure?

Have you given up on live football on TV or are you just watching in other ways?

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Viewing figures for live Premier League matches on Sky Sports are down by 19%. It’s amazing they have stood up so well in an era when you can pay nothing and miss nothing. Why would fans stump up £42 a month to watch 90-minute matches when all of the action is available for free online – where kind people will chop it up into easily digestible highlights – and they’ll even piece together the best goals and biggest moments from Champions League matches, which would set you back an extra £22 a month to watch on BT Sport? With real wages going down and the cost of watching football going up, will expensive TV subscriptions become a thing of the past? You tell us.