How to watch Brighton v Fulham and Liverpool without a BT subscription
The Premier League games are coming thick and fast now for Brighton & Hove Albion – and you can catch the Seagulls in action twice in the space of 10 days on BT Sport as they take on Fulham on Wednesday 27th January and Liverpool a week later on Wednesday 3rd February.
Non-subscribers can sign up to a BT Sport monthly pass. For just £25 with no contract, you can watch both of the Albion’s matches to be broadcast live plus everything else on BT for the next 30 days.
That includes a lot of Premier League football. The broadcaster are showing every Premier League team twice in 10 days between Brighton’s home game with Fulham and Saturday 6th February.
A monthly pass will cover three further Premier League matchdays (although none of them feature the Albion as yet) and include the FA Cup fifth round, where Brighton will take on Leicester City. Who broadcasts the Seagulls’ trip to the King Power Stadium is yet to be announced.
Brighton v Fulham is a real six pointer in the relegation battle as the Seagulls look to end a club-record winless home run which is currently at 13 games.
Victory over the Cottagers would take Brighton eight points clear of the relegation zone and help to build on the momentum from beating Blackpool and The Leeds United, pushing Manchester City close at the Etihad Stadium and the comeback from 3-1 down against Wolverhampton Wanderers to draw 3-3.
Fulham though are no slouches. They have become extremely tough to beat since Scott Parker reverted to a back five and introduced a counter-attacking style of pay in December, drawing five and losing two of their subsequent seven matches.
Those two defeats were against Chelsea and Manchester United. Included at the start of that run was the 0-0 draw between Fulham and Brighton at Craven Cottage six weeks ago.
Graham Potter has so far this season failed to beat West Bromwich Albion, Burnley and Sheffield United at the Amex, who all arrived below the Albion in the table.
Another winless evening at home would be a cause for concern, especially with a much tougher set of fixtures to come in Sussex in the second half of the campaign.
Speaking of tough fixtures, the second Brighton game which BT Sport are showing in the 10 day period sees the Albion go to Anfield to face champions Liverpool.
The Reds have been on a bit of a wobble lately and Jurgen Klopp’s only answer appears to be ranting like a madman and trying to blame everyone but himself for the fact that their title defence is not going entirely well.
Normally, we would not give Brighton a hope ahead of a trip to Liverpool but it feels like this is a good time to be heading to Merseyside. The Reds lost their 68 game unbeaten home record last week to Burnley of all teams with a certain Ashley Barnes scoring the only goal of the game from the penalty spot.
Brighton have also forced Klopp into two minor breakdowns in their last three encounters. In November, he managed to get into an argument with BT Sport’s Des Kelly about fixture congestion during a post-match interview after the Albion had claimed a 1-1 draw against Liverpool. Mr Kelly made Klopp look very silly, much to the delight of viewers everywhere.
Rewind a year to November 2019 and Klopp lost his mind at Lewis Dunk’s quickly taken free kick being allowed to stand as Brighton gave Liverpool a fright in a 2-1 defeat at Anfield.
Klopp’s arguments might have carried more weight had Trent Alexander-Arnold not been hailed a genius for taking a quick corner in the Champions League against Barcelona six months earlier.
Barca were not ready in much the same way as Liverpool when facing Dunk, the Reds scored from it and went onto win the trophy. Double standards much from Herr Klopp? The Albion will be looking to rattle him further a week on Wednesday.
Watch Brighton v Fulham and Liverpool v Brighton in the space of 10 days on BT Sport for just £25 with a no-contract monthly pass. Sign up here.
