My initial thought as well.
As an aside, I remember when the viewing figures and fees for that failed ITV Football League deal were leaked many years ago. There was one game in the North East where it would have been marginally cheaper for ITV to pay for all the tv viewers to travel to, and...
At the time the club sent the original communication they’d obviously decided it would be, at the very least, free in UK. So why didn’t the club simply say this? Eg “Free to air in the U.K., other territories might incur a cost.” That’s fair and clear.
It’s clearly a comms cock-up. Might...