There has rarely been PL Friday night footy though many of the first live games were friday nights they were on BBC/ITV before PL , and the TV schedules are announced well in advance . Now i agree that traditionally English clubs have been disadvantaged by lack of rest time before the CL midweek matches compared to European teams but since they also receive far more TV money than almost anyone they can't moan to much.I'm not keeping a year by year record so that may be true. If as Libby says Friday night games have returned after a 5 year gap, then I can remember games at least as far back as 12 years to that. If there were gaps in between then fair enough. But the wider point is that if it is all down to TV ratings then there's no reason why it shouldn't have applied then as well when CL games were due.



