It will take more than Ellie McCoist to justify the price of TNT Sports.

Lynsey Hipgrave takes over at TNT Sports' reporting from Emirates with Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole. Credit: Getty Images/Mark Leech

Breach stretches in the tunnel, featuring tidbits such as which players had warmed up earlier during the break, were a delight to backstage energetics. Having two MCs rather than one main star MC softened the feeling that crept in at the end of the BT era, ie. that it was primarily a game for selfishness, to which, as it turned out, football was added.

And for the customer? This may annoy some, but it is another service that you need to subscribe to if you want to have the privilege of watching our national sport on TV. TNT is available through Discovery+ platform for a whopping £29.99 a month; this also includes Eurosport, as well as various channels such as Quest, TLC and Discovery, which are unlikely to be of interest to sports fans. Saturday's non-sports programming looked like absolute trash, a TV dump with names like «Bad Skin Clinic», «Helicopter Ambulance» and «Purple Bride Boutique». Alan Partridge's Youth Hostel with Chris Eubank may yet find its spiritual home.

If you have Sky, you can add TNT for £25, but again, this is not the idea of ​​a deal. The sports offering is very similar to what BT Sport had: the Premier League, the Champions League and other UEFA tournaments, as well as the Premier League and the Heineken Rugby Cup, a decent distribution of WWE, UFC and boxing, as well as second-rate cricket and more. /p>

Open+ the app experience was good, at least for this viewer. At the bottom there is a chic timeline scrollbar where you can return to goals and key incidents. It worked well for me and did not freeze, although there were moments when the sound was distorted. On that note, there seems to have been audio issues from time to time while streaming from the Emirates; Hipgrave handed over to Fletcher, and we couldn't hear the commentator's comments for ten seconds or more. Some hardcore jokers on the internet wondered if this could be offered as a permanent option. In my opinion, this is unfair: Fletcher is perfectly combined with McCoist, and they have a good mutual understanding. All in all, a promising discovery, albeit overpriced.