No it's because not clubs are already playing midweek and weekends each week from now on. Even in order to do a Rotherham they'd have to rearrange other games to give any kind of rest I believe. For sky it's not much problem, they'd just show it whenever I imagine
They could have but we forget its sky that decides...not the fans or the fa. This is all about selling a premier game to the paying public ££££££££.
People have lives, they need a bit of notice to (re)arrange things. It's all right just saying play at 10 o'clock the next day but any of the players, matchday staff, media people etc. or their families may have something arranged for the next morning that they can't just drop at no notice. Especially when it is a bank holiday the next day.
Jam Drop your argument is weak there. I have a life and need to arrange things but not once have the SFA or FA considered my personal circumstances when rearranging games.
Could have played it 3 o clock today to give sport subscribers something to watch with the IPL match called off due to covid.
Makes me laugh how everyone is saying on Sky that they could play the game on the day Liverpool are fixtured to play West Brom. Clearly West Brom are seen here as just an inconvenience in finding the best TV slot available for the big clubs. If I was West Brom I wouldn’t entertain it at all.
There's a football pitch behind my house and I know a bloke with a video camera who's free this aft. Sorted. Now what's Sky's phone number?
We shut the country down at short notice more than once I the last year, destroying lives and businesses, I'm sure two of the richest clubs in the world in the richest league in the world could sort out 90 mins of professional football at short notice.
Are you poor darling-ing the kit (wo)man, groundskeepers, photographers, ball boys/girls, match officials, everyone else who makes a match go ahead and their families who may have appointments booked, promises to take their kids somewhere for the day on bank hol (or just need childcare at no notice as schools are closed and they weren’t expecting to be working)? Or are you just thinking about the players? Maybe we should all poor darling the people who’ll have to wait a few days/weeks to watch it on tv.
It’s a football match, it’ll get played, it’s hardly life threatening surgery that needs to be performed immediately.
I reckon, at the basest level, if you really need a fixture to be played with no other considerations involved, and by that I mean sky tv and the ££££ all you really need is two teams, the officials and the medics. If your interested in the cash, then there’s a million reasons you can find to justify not playing the game at 10.00 on Monday morning. That was my point, and for clarity, I take your views on board 100%
Don't disagree, just think it could have been today. I'm sure reasons exist I don't know about. My guess would be TV and sponsorship issues, global audience ect.
