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Major League Baseball also has a new business model that is raking in money hand over fist; their MLB.TV online venture lets you watch any baseball game in the country (live or after the fact) in your choice of home or visitor broadcast, for $24 a month of $120 for a whole year. Now that their service is available via XBOX I'm sorely tempted.
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I wish football clubs would sort out a setup like that. I'd jump at the chance to pay £5 a month to watch every home and away game of even just the one team I support. If it included any team for a higher sub even better.
They fear it'll eat into gate receipts, but that's not likely to happen imo. Those who go watch matches live do so for the day out, the athmosphere and meeting other fans and will still go even with such a service in place. Only difference would be the time they can't go, they'd still get to see the game.
As for me, I'd go now and then, but rather than missing 95% of the games I'd see them all through a combination of in person and streamed.
Shame clubs have no say here though, the rights are decided by the football league and they're stuck in the pre-internet era atm.