A gang sold cheap subscriptions to an illegal service showing games not otherwise available in the UK.
As Manchester City lifted the trophy, five men were awaiting sentencing for illegally streaming Premier League matchesFive men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people have been jailed.
Trading-standards investigator Doug Love led a raid on Gould's smart riverside flat in Greenwich, south London.Image caption,"When we went into the spare bedroom, there were 20 or 30 set-top boxes linked together." Uefa allows the Premier League to prevent broadcasts of UK matches between 14:45 and 17:15 on Saturdays.
Some pubs and bars also use illegal streams to show unavailable matches, or to avoid the cost of official services, which can be more than £20,000 a year for commercial premises."The Premier League is on our doorstep and yet we have the least amount of access to that football," YouTuber Daniel Bradley, also known as FPL Mate, says.Daniel Bradley on YouTube
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