Cole Palmer's Twitch Ban After EA Sports FC 27 Stream

Cole Palmer thought he was just giving the people what they wanted. Instead, he walked straight into a showdown with the makers of the game he was streaming.

On Tuesday afternoon, the 24-year-old Chelsea star casually fired up Twitch and dropped into EA Sports FC 27 — a game that, officially, nobody was supposed to be playing yet. No sponsorship splash screen. No coordinated launch. Just Palmer, a controller, and thousands of viewers watching him tear through Ultimate Team packs and matches for more than an hour.

There was one problem: the game is still under strict embargo.

The global release is set for September 25, with early access not due to start until September 18. Palmer blew right past that. It didn’t take long for EA to notice.

The stream vanished mid-broadcast. One moment Palmer was working through packs; the next, the feed was gone. Soon after, his Twitch channel had been scrubbed of all EA Sports FC 27 content following a copyright request.

Even in the middle of that, there was a comic twist. EA Sports FC’s official account dropped into the chat while he was live and delivered a gentle but pointed nudge: “Errr Cole, weren't we going to do this a bit later? We'll be live at 6pm UK!”

The message landed. The punishment followed.

Palmer didn’t sulk. He pivoted. Banned from streaming the game, he went straight to Instagram and fired off a playful appeal. Tagging both Twitch and EA, he wrote: “I was only giving the people what they wanted... unban me pls.” On another platform, reacting to a post about his suspension, he kept it short: “We back soon.”

The ban wasn’t the only thing winding him up. During the ill-fated stream, Palmer clocked his new in-game rating — and he did not like what he saw.

His overall had dropped from 87 to 85.

“I need a word with EA. They took two ratings off me,” he complained on stream. “I had one leg for ten months last season, what do you want me to do?”

The frustration didn’t stop there. When he noticed his pace rating, he turned his attention to Chelsea team-mate Morgan Rogers.

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

Behind the jokes sits a real story of a brutal year with his body. Palmer’s “one leg” line refers to the stop-start misery of last season, when a groin problem and a fractured toe repeatedly dragged him out of contention and blunted his impact in the opening months of the campaign.

On Chelsea’s pre-season tour in Sydney, he admitted he had pushed too hard, too soon.

“The first few months, with me being injured, I just wanted to go out and play, which I probably shouldn't have done,” he said. “Obviously, I couldn't play how I wanted to play. It was a bad season, personally, with injuries and stuff, but I feel good now. The seven weeks obviously helped. I'm ready to go again.”

He even went abroad in search of answers.

“I went to Sweden or Denmark, one of those countries, to see a doctor,” he revealed. “We did speak about (surgery), but I didn't end up getting it.”

That decision, and the long summer reset, look vindicated. With his fitness issues apparently parked, Palmer has exploded into the new season. Alongside Rogers, he has already chalked up four goal contributions in the Premier League, the pair driving Chelsea’s early surge and giving Stamford Bridge a new attacking heartbeat.

So while he waits to discover whether Twitch will open the door for him again, Palmer’s real stage lies elsewhere. His form in the Premier League and Carabao Cup has become central to Chelsea’s momentum.

The streaming ban might sting, the rating drop might irritate, but EA’s numbers won’t define this season. Palmer’s next few months in blue will.