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TheSecondStain said:
i think if they stopped screwing around with the day and start times everyone would be reasonably happy.
If I was still a supporter I would much rather the 3pm start on a Saturday and 7.30pm start on weekday matches. But that's the traditionalist in me. What I don't like are the staggered start times.

Back in the day [1970's] there was a small shout for 2pm start times on a Saturday. That suited me down to the ground because I often spent loads of time waiting around for 3pm, and in winter the floodlights wouldn't have had to be turned on until much later. I believe I was having my first thoughts about the environment even back then.
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That would require a change in the law for weekend games to be shown on TV if they all kicked off then. They were never going to not spread the games as far across the weekend as they can.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Sunday become the standard PL day at some point though so they can show them all.

My biggest annoyance with them recently is the staggering of the Boxing Day games that's robbed us of having one for two of the past three years.
 
True story.

In the late 80s my dad used to play golf with Geoff Boycott and got to know him quite well. My dad is Indian, and on one tour of India, Geoff was commentating and stayed with my Dad's (well i suppose mine too!) family. Anyway, he needed to speak to my dad to arrange something and called the house. My mum answered (she hated cricket and knew nothing about it) and the guy on the end of the phone asked for my dad, she said who's calling he replied in a Yorkshire accent "Tell him it's Geoff" "Oh, Geoff who?"

He never let my dad live that down.
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
True story.

In the late 80s my dad used to play golf with Geoff Boycott and got to know him quite well. My dad is Indian, and on one tour of India, Geoff was commentating and stayed with my Dad's (well i suppose mine too!) family. Anyway, he needed to speak to my dad to arrange something and called the house. My mum answered (she hated cricket and knew nothing about it) and the guy on the end of the phone asked for my dad, she said who's calling he replied in a Yorkshire accent "Tell him it's Geoff" "Oh, Geoff who?"

He never let my dad live that down.
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He didn't let woman let things down either
 
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TheSecondStain said:
Well, if you really want an answer it's because the Premier League sold its soul to SKY which means they can move whatever fixture they want [within reason] and that the armchair observer has far more influence over what happens than the stadium supporter. I've said it before - everybody needs to turn in their SKY subscriptions if stadium supporters want to be important to football again. And if they did it overnight, Rupert Murdoch would instantly become a lot poorer, and that's no bad thing.
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Hasn’t Murdoch sold Sky now?
 
fatletiss said:
Hasn’t Murdoch sold Sky now?
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Right up until my last look at Murdoch's dealings, he had still owned about 39% of BSkyB, which owned Sky Sports. But I've just waded into the murky Murdoch world and it does indeed appear that Sky has been sold to Comcast in America. But I still can't pin down if the Murdoch family doesn't own a small bit or not.
I know they own Fox Corp, that's for sure, so are big Trump supporters. Or big supporters while it suits them. But that's another story. Did you know that Rupert Murdoch's ex-missus dates Vladimir Putin? It's certainly not what you know, but who you know, at the top of the pile.
 
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Saturday 28th September 2019

Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton KO. 15:00

Referee: Graham Scott.
Assistants: Neil Davies, Derek Eaton.
Fourth official: Darren Bond.
VAR: Darren England.
Assistant VAR: Ian Hussin.
 
fatletiss said:
Hasn’t Murdoch sold Sky now?
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Sold a lot of their smaller market shares eg NZ. Seems they're in the too big to fail basket still but getting pushed closer and closer to the edge. Rugby rights are everything here, the only thing that keeps Sky going.
 
Seems Wesley really, really, really regrets leaving the lower reaches of Lazio's squad for a big paycheck. Regrets it so much he is resigned to just sitting out his contract here rather than, you know, moving on for a pay cut and being worthwhile somewhere else. This guy seems to confirm he is an utter twat every time he opens his mouth http://sportwitness.co.uk/i-made-mistake-defender-reveals-southampton-regret/
 
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