Arsenal’s crucial final Premier League match of the season against Everton on Sunday is not being shown by Sky Sports because it has used up all its 126 live fixtures this season.
Sky left itself just two games to choose from on Sunday after broadcasting 10 in the past week, culminating in Thursday night’s clash between Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur.
That decision, made last month, appears to have backfired
after Chelsea clinched the title at West Bromwich Albion on Friday night and Manchester United were ruled out of the race for Champions League football ahead of their bore draw at Southampton on Wednesday.
Following Emirates Marketing Project’s victory over West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday night, Sky elected to show theirs and Liverpool’s final games of the season, with those teams in pole position to finish in the top four.
That denied Arsenal fans the chance to see if they could upset the odds and qualify for the Champions League for the 20th consecutive year.
BT Sport has also run out of matches, having shown the last of its 42 games – Swansea City v Everton – almost two weeks ago.
Sky has almost invariably had the final day of the season to itself and has previously held back enough live fixtures to show three games simultaneously on more than one occasion.
However, its primary goal is broadcasting the moment the title is won and it is no surprise it picked virtually all of Chelsea’s and Spurs’ matches from early April onward.
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