Some good news.

[millertop]

Bloody hell a football thread.
Looking forward to watching football again.
How long before millertop moans about VAR😂😂

Ffs they’re not still using VAR surely 😂

[flourbasher]

Four Premier League games will be broadcast, free to air, live on BBC Sport when the season resumes.

It is the first time since the Premier League's inception in 1992 that games will have been shown live by the BBC.

On Thursday it was announced that the league is set to restart on 17 June, subject to government approval.

"This opportunity creates an historic moment for the BBC and our audiences," director of BBC Sport, Barbara Slater said.

"At a time when sports fans across the country are in need of a lift, this is very welcome news."

As well as the four live games there will be additional Match of the Day highlight programmes.

Every one of the remaining 92 Premier League games will be broadcast live across Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC Sport or Amazon Prime.

Sky Sports will make 25 of the remaining top-flight matches free to air, including the Merseyside Derby on the first weekend of the 19-21 June.

The last time a live, top-flight league football match was broadcast on the BBC was during the 1987-88 season. I

[millertop]

It’s not actually free though is it, we pay for a license

I did love football on bbc so look forward to it

[CAMiller]

I’m actually hoping they will sort out a week long festival of football to finish the FA cup.

I was hoping they were going to use some past performance model to predict the FA Cup winner and it would award it to us

[CAMiller]

It’s not actually free though is it, we pay for a license

I did love football on bbc so look forward to it

NBC coverage here is pretty good but I have quite liked not watching so much Premiership (3 games Saturday, 3 games Sunday) for the past few months. I might find that OFF button one day

[CASPER-64-FRANK]

Great news.

I wonder if they will allow a few thousand cut out cardboard spectators.

[Karl998yr]

Had the EFL had the foresight to have a contingency in place for such an eventuality that a season is interrupted like this then no one would have any grounds to complain. One thing for sure is there will be from here on in

[PerigordMiller]

Meh

[PerigordMiller]

Caspy - with the best will in the world, how is this great news?

[Scum-Triumphant]

Caspy - with the best will in the world, how is this great news?

Because involve 100s of posts about party politics.

Hopefully.