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This is a podcast from The Times. Go to The Times. edition of the game podcast bonus and I'm delighted that with me today is Patty Barclay.

Patty we're going to look at the ruling from the European Court of Justice

last week which some people say, well revolutionized

television in this country and whatever else.

In a nutshell, I'm going to try to break this down very simply, but the European Union has effectively decided that it is entirely legal for you if you live in the UK or any other European country

to buy a decoder and viewing card subscription from any other European country.

And the reason this is relevant is that in the UK the costs associated with

watching football on a sky and ESPN or on the sky platform

can be as much as three, four, five, ten times higher in some cases

than going with a Romanian alternative or an Albanian or a Greek alternative.

There is some confusion over how it applies to this actual case and whether you can show it in

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