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You can, but all the sports are modeled a bit differently. With the NFL you could get most of your local team for free with an antenna or cheap with a basic cable subscription. But those networks are paying the NFL a couple billion each per season. Or you can pay about $120/mo for four months for Sunday Ticket, which gives you every Sunday game. Monday / Thursday night football require ESPN and Amazon.

Oh, baseball is different though because it's heavily regional. MLB has national deals worth almost $2b per season from the likes of ESPN, Apple, etc., but every team has their own local TV arrangement. And then mlb.tv is meant for the out-of-area fan. It would be like if there was PL TV, but if you live in Newcastle you have to subscribe to Sky Newcastle to see Newcastle's games. PL TV would give you the rest. And I guess the international market can't handle a higher price point.

What are you referring to here?

Kelly disastrous. Gordon, Willock, Bruno, Schar, Murphy, Barnes, and Tonali all poor. Isak moody.

I think in many ways he was let down tonight by individual errors similar to the Chelsea game. Kelly a catastrophe. But the second half was a train wreck with long spells of players not looking like they knew what position they were meant to be playing.

Struggling to think of many worse individual performances in the Howe era. A car crash from beginning to end.

Eh, the first never happens with Burn and from there we probably win this game 7-8 times out of 10. There wasn't a whole lot wrong with the first half. Second half is just a mess.

There is no point in VAR or rules in general if that is not a penalty.

I think it's meant to be a 4-4-2 but Gordon is making it a messy 4-5-1. These subs should at least make it a real 4-4-2.

Here come some of the usernames that must have been on holiday for the last month.

Never missed Dan Burn so much.

What a disaster.

I know Antonio is a menace, but Kelly looks like an oversized child trying to deal with him.

Tonali at 60. Wilson at 75 if we're still losing.

We'll win

Kelly has had an atrocious half hour.

Oh no. If Willock is done I hope Eddie puts Tonali in his place instead of moving Joe and bringing on a different winger.

This game was as good as over if Isak's counted. Now it's going to be a slog.

Kelly at fault. Pretty confident Burn doesn't let that happen.

What a ball that is from Hall.

Looks like this match interrupted his plans for the week.

We've scored 11 goals in our last three games against them. I think we'll keep that pace tonight.

A staple of Champions League coverage on ESPN in the 2000s. Absolutely reviled by many.

I think you're all forgetting how the Wilson cycle goes. He's going to score like six goals, including firing us into the LC semifinal, over the next 2 months, which will lead to an acceptance that he's a quality backup and we can get through the season with him. And then he'll get hurt at Southampton with a week left in the window.

Can't wait to see him score tonight.