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Sky Sports and BT Sport 'to resist pressure' to screen Premier League games for free

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Sky Sports and BT Sport are expected to resist pressure to screen this season's remaining Premier League games for free. There are 92 top-flight games left to play this campaign after football was suspended last month due to the coronavirus pandemic.

With the action likely to take place behind closed doors when it eventually resumes, the UK's culture secretary Oliver Dowden has called for matches to be screened for free so that fans can watch the culmination of the campaign.

Sky Sports and BT Sport are due to show 47 matches between them before the end of the season, and are unwilling to give them away for free, according to the Daily Mail - having paid £421million for the rights to show them.

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