Common sense is prevailing, logical trends are being followed and an outdated association are starting to move with the times. What am I dribbling about? Football of course.

At eight o’clock I started to scour the regular football streaming websites for anything showing the FA Cup replay between Bolton and Spurs. Only after my original stream bites the bullet do I realise that the FA are streaming it for free.

I’m sure I’m not alone in constantly banging on about how the Premier League needs to start streaming all their games. I mean, at the moment the streamers and streaming websites are making money through advertisements, why shouldn’t the actual license holders make some money? After all, you’re not going to stop it happening, so why not go with the flow? That’s what tonight’s test run is all about.

I’d be curious to read the viewing figures and finances around tonight’s broadcast. Are they making money through the advertisements? Will the interest be enough to start regularly streaming games? Hopefully they’re making enough to warrant something more substantial next year.

Regardless of whether you are a sports fan, this is an important day. It could be another milestone in the way content is broadcast, it sure feels like one.

I’ve been playing a lot of Football Manager recently – yeah I know, hear me out – and in the year 2022 the title will be decided between Manchester City, Aston Villa, Arsenal and Basingstoke. Except for the latter, that could happen. Aston Villa are probably the biggest club in the world, with tons of cash and multiple Champions League wins under their belt, Owen Coyle has done one hell of a job.

It’s all a bit far-fetched but it makes you think that few clubs stay at the top of the league for years and that generally the clubs at the top go around in circles. Kind of makes the whole point of Football seem futile… I probably won’t find a shortage of people to agree with me.

Even with that said, I’ll still endlessly rant at the manager’s decisions and enjoy surprise moments from under-appreciated substitutes.