First Friday game of new season- United v Southampton at Old Trafford

The first Friday game of the new Premier League season takes place tonight as Southampton travel to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United. Jeff Stelling and Rachel Riley will be hosting the Friday Night Football Show on Sky, who will be showing ten Friday games this season as part of a new rights deal inked with the Premier League.

United v Southampton is the first of those, with Chelsea’s home clash against Liverpool (September 16) being the next one in line. Paul Pogba is expected to make his first appearance for the Red Devils following his record switch from Juventus.

The new PL television rights deal is worth a staggering £5.1bn (effectively worth £30.4m per game), a whopping ten fold increase over the £3m per game paid by Sky when the league began back in 1992 Continue reading