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Cole Palmer Banned From Twitch For Streaming FC 27 Early 

Chelsea, Cole Palmer, FC 27, Morgan Rogers

Cole Palmer gave Chelsea and England fans an unexpected treat on Tuesday afternoon, going live on his Twitch account “colep10” to stream EA Sports FC 27, more than two days before the game’s early-access window was even due to open, and a full week before its worldwide release on September 25.

Within minutes, word spread fast, one gaming account posted “Cole Palmer is currently streaming FC 27 packs on Twitch to 8,000 people 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭,” capturing just how quickly the moment turned into a spectacle.

Palmer spent over an hour on the broadcast, opening Ultimate Team packs and playing matches, entirely bypassing EA’s release embargo in the process.

The stream produced one genuinely fun moment before it all came crashing down: Palmer scored his very first goal in FC 27 alongside his England international teammate Anthony Gordon, both featuring in the same Ultimate Team lineup, just 12 seconds into a match.

It didn’t take long for EA to notice. Their official Twitch account, “@easportsfc,” popped up directly in Palmer’s own chat mid-broadcast with a cheeky reminder: “Errr Cole, weren’t we going to do this a bit later? We’ll be live at 6pm UK! @colep10.”

Shortly after, the stream was pulled entirely, with Palmer’s channel displaying a message that content had been “removed at the request of the copyright holder,” and his Twitch account was temporarily suspended.

One post capturing the moment simply read, “EA have taken down the Cole Palmer FC 27 twitch stream ❌,” while another broke the news outright: “PALMER GOT BANNED IN TWITCH FOR STREAMING EA FC 27 TOO EARLY 🤣🤣🤣🤣.”

Palmer didn’t take it too seriously. He posted to his Instagram story, tagging both Twitch and EA Sports FC directly: “I was only giving the people what they wanted… unban me pls,” posted alongside a screenshot of his in-game Ultimate Team pack collection, which showed a sizable stockpile of FC Points and coins.

He followed it up with a lighter reaction on a post covering the story, simply commenting “We back soon” with laughing emojis, racking up dozens of likes and replies within seconds, including one from a fan replying “😂😂😂” and another from FUT Sheriff, the account that had first broken the story, replying “LMAOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭” right back at him.

Buried inside the chaos of the stream was a real subplot: Palmer’s own reaction to his FC 27 rating.

His Ultimate Team card lists him as an 85-rated CAM, with 75 pace, 83 shooting, 85 passing, 85 dribbling, 50 defense, and 64 physical, a two-point drop from his 87 rating in FC 26.

He wasn’t happy about it live on stream, and he didn’t stop there, either, noticing Chelsea teammate Morgan Rogers had been given a higher pace rating than him:

“76 pace? I don’t know how he’s got more pace than me but, EA sometimes, man, they’re a bit crazy.”

Despite the ban and the rating gripe, Palmer remains Chelsea’s third-highest-rated men’s player in FC 27, and his real-life form suggests the drop hasn’t slowed him down much.

He and Rogers have each already registered four goal contributions in the Premier League this season, underlining just how central the pair have become to Chelsea’s attack early on.

As for the stream itself, it turned out to be a case of remarkably bad timing, EA’s own sanctioned broadcast was already scheduled for just a few hours later, at 6pm UK time that same day.

The whole episode ended up being treated as good fun rather than a real controversy.

Fans and content creators largely found the mix-up hilarious, with plenty calling it one of the funnier football-and-creator crossover moments of a game launch in recent memory.

Not everyone let it go entirely without comment, some pointed out how quickly a Premier League star’s ban got sorted compared to how long an average streamer might wait in the same situation, wondering aloud whether it was worth a ban at all or just a harmless mistake.

Even so, the overall reaction stayed light-hearted throughout, with EA’s own cameo in his chat doing most of the work in turning a copyright strike into a genuinely funny moment.

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