This Saturday, you have – in theory – your pick of 13 football games being broadcast legally on UK TV.

You would need deep pockets and several screens to do it, but you could watch three games from the Premier League, one from the Scottish Premiership, three from the Championship, a pair a piece from League One and League Two and a couple from the National League.

Subscriptions to Dazn, Sky Sports, TNT Sports and Premier Sports (me neither) would be required and you would also, for one week only, need to be signed up to TikTok to watch a stream of Southend vs Carlisle at 5.30pm.

I went down this cul-de-sac when, after criticising the 3pm blackout as being completely outdated and calling for it to be scrapped, the most common riposte from its defenders was that not being able to watch

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