This is another reason the 3pm blackout just needs to go.
It is restraint of trade, in a way.
I'm sure a number of pubs would love to lay on 3pm kick offs on a Saturday - if you can't (or don't want to) travel to the game, then come and pay a fiver at the door, relax, have a few pints and watch it with your mates. You'll have bars in New York, Melbourne, Marbella all doing it. It's an absolute no-brainer.
But no. Let's keep an archaic law that came in in the 1950s to satisfy one tight arse Burnley chairman who was worried that it might hit his gate receipts. Instead of repealing it because it makes no sense to modern life 70 years on.
Honestly, this country is so backward sometimes.