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REVEALED: How a piracy crimewave has swept the nation with football fans making shady payments for illegal firesticks… breaking the law has become the norm

A cricket club in a middle-class village in the north of England on a freezing Saturday in January would not immediately strike you as a crime scene.

But the clue is in the car park which - despite the start of the season being months away - is packed. Why? Because the owner is one of the estimated hundreds of thousands across the country who has obtained an illegally modified Fire Stick and that means they can show the local EFL football team's away match that afternoon on the big screen.

Word has spread and the bar is doing a roaring trade.