League take positives from TV ruling

FOOTBALL’s Premier League claimed a partial victory yesterday despite losing a European court case against a pub landlady who used a foreign decoder to screen live matches at 3pm on Saturdays.

Karen Murphy paid £800 a year for the Greek service and said she would have had to pay 10 times that much for Sky.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in her favour, but added that some parts of the broadcast such as the graphics remained the Premier League’s copyright.