Paul Rouse: From being lifted over a turnstile to watching games on dodgy boxes

The illegal streaming of matches, as well as the use of doctored firesticks has exploded in scale.

DODGY BOXES: A new international report by Enders Analysis – a research company who for 30 years have covered the media, entertainment, mobile and fixed telecommunications industries in Europe – reveals the "industrial scale theft" which centres on the pirated streaming of sports events.

Getting into a match for free is one of the great joys of life.

The lengths that some people will go to in order to avoid paying suggest something more than a transient joy, of course, but most people look sensibly on a free ticket as a lovely treat.