Paul Rouse: From being lifted over a turnstile to watching games on dodgy boxes
The illegal streaming of matches, as well as the use of doctored firesticks has exploded in scale.
DODGY BOXES: A new international report by Enders Analysis – a research company who for 30 years have covered the media, entertainment, mobile and fixed telecommunications industries in Europe – reveals the "industrial scale theft" which centres on the pirated streaming of sports events.
Getting into a match for free is one of the great joys of life.
The lengths that some people will go to in order to avoid paying suggest something more than a transient joy, of course, but most people look sensibly on a free ticket as a lovely treat.
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